elektito on Station

author: elektito

2023-07-08 18:05 UTC

I just posted a rather long gemlog entry about how I wrote the first version of my Starforth compiler from scratch: gemini://elektito.com/gemlog/17-starforth-2

I still think I'm rather long winded in my writing, but oh well, it could have been worse!

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2023-06-28 06:51 UTC

I've just begun reading "On Writing Well" and I feel like it's already affected how I write!

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2023-06-26 07:53 UTC

I don't usually say this to the Dutchies, because they might take offense, but I actually like Dutch weather! It might do crazy things for a bit, but it always reverts soon back to the usual cloudy with a chance of rain. And that's fine with me!

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2023-06-23 21:36 UTC

Also, while I'm here let's leave a cry for help. Everytime I want to do a write up on a project, I bore myself to death with my own long-winded writing. Anyone knows of a resource to read improving my writing? Searching for writing advice seems to mostly come up with advice eon either creative writing, or academic writing, which is not what I need.

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2023-06-23 21:33 UTC

Elpher is broken unfortunately. I can't summon the energy to rollback to the previous version, so I'm using Lagrange, which is nice, but has the huge drawback of forcing me to leave emacs.

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2023-06-23 21:31 UTC

Checking back on gemini-space after about a whole month. I wrote a small, self-hosting compiler along the way, which improved my mental health situation quite a bit!

https://git.sr.ht/~elektito/starforth

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2023-05-08 06:32 UTC

I'm back into the abyss again. No energy to do anything really. This song cheered me up for a bit though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Appmg64tZB0

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2023-04-25 19:56 UTC

Crisis averted!

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2023-04-25 18:57 UTC

Looks like I've broken my search engine without even knowing it...

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2023-04-25 18:51 UTC

So I just realized how much a trailing slash could matter in urls: if I go to my gemlog at gemini://elektito.com/gemlog (notice the lack of a trailing slash) and click on one of the relative links (like pointing to "1-first-post"), the client asks for gemini://elektito.com/1-first-post, instead of gemini://elektito.com/gemlog/1-first-post. At first I thought this is a bug in the clients, but now I'm thinking it sorta makes sense. Without the trailing slash, the browser asks for a sibling page, same as if I was looking at gemini://elektito.com/gemlog.gmi. I'd better reconfigure my server to redirect those urls.

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2023-04-24 10:11 UTC

So over the weekend I added "image search" to my search engine, "image" here meaning ascii art! You can try it here: gemini://gemplex.space/image/search.

There's also an option to show a random ascii art: gemini://gemplex.space/image/random

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2023-04-20 18:32 UTC

Is it just me being fixated on this, or have the web search engines become entirely useless? Whatever I search for, I seem to get the same 17 best this, and best alternatives to that, and 21 great...and so on? The only way I seem to find stuff is when I already more or less know where something is to be found, like reddit, stack overflow, wikipedia, you know the obvious stuff.

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2023-04-20 17:03 UTC

Funny thing about Station is that there's really no need to follow anyone atm. You can just check the front page! I like that.

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2023-04-20 13:56 UTC

I talked about moving away from services like github a couple days ago. Here's the page I've setup to track my progress. It's a little unweildly for now. Guess I'll have to split it up and organize it into multiple pages soon. gemini://elektito.com/project-migration

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2023-04-19 09:42 UTC

I see Google-style robots.txt rules like /*.jpg$ in the wild. As far as I understand, this is not valid under gemini robots.txt spec, or at least not like it's intended. Or did I get that wrong? Anybody else following those rules?

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2023-04-18 10:23 UTC

Let me reiterate in this venue that I _hate_ Ubuntu snaps. They never work quite well. For example, the way Firefox updates are handled is just abhorrent. You get a notification that there is an update pending, but Firefox needs a restart, but it won't really work unless you do that in the short window that the update is actually retried.

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2023-04-17 17:30 UTC

Just came across this post: gemini://ploum.be/2023-02-22-leaving-github.gmi. I just needed a gentle reminder to get out of github. I'll be making preperations to make the migration soon. I already have a paid sr.ht account, so that's where I'll be heading. I can also think of other services that I want to start migrating out of. I'll probably make a page on my capsule to keep track of what I need to do, and keep a log of things that are done.

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2023-04-16 17:38 UTC

I am letting my 2325 day Duolingo streak die. Duolingo quickly turned out to be not that educational to me. I just kept on the streak because it's the sort of thing my brain keeps forcing me to do. But at this point, the amount of streak freezes that I use is just rediculous and the whole thing is entirely pointless. Not to mention the fact that Duolingo has become complete enshittified as Cory Doctorow would put it.

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2023-04-15 00:36 UTC

Deciding it's never going to be "ready" ready, here's an early version of my gemini search engine: gemini://gemplex.space/

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2023-04-14 10:30 UTC

Finally added "slow down" support to the crawler, in case any server finds the default rate of one request per second too much. I'm a model citizen now.

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2023-04-13 12:28 UTC

On my server logs, I see requests to gemini:///robots.txt. Is this supposed to be a valid request? Should the server fill in the missing hostname with SNI maybe?

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2023-04-12 20:07 UTC

Everytime I hear "gemini is heavier than gopher, lighter than the web", it makes me think of "duty is heavier than a mountain, death is light as a feather."

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2023-04-12 13:33 UTC

Occsionally someone comes up with something so weird and so interestingly, that it absolves the rest of the internet for a while (only a short while!). You think you could use a sector on a real floppy disk? Grab one, while they last. There's only 2880 after all! https://sectordisk.pw/

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2023-04-10 01:10 UTC

Moved my capsule to my own Gemini server, which is now called "hodhod". Source on github: https://github.com/elektito/hodhod

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2023-04-09 00:37 UTC

Geminispace seems to be entirely devoid of anything related to the Penguins of Madagascar. That's a real shame! So I just added a page to my capsule, dedicated to collecting some of their quotes.

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2023-04-08 22:09 UTC

Added a couple of silly mountains to my capsule's ascii art header. I feel like quite an artist now!

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