Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🔤SpellBinding: HLMNOTY Wordo: SLIER

  • smart-phoning

    Different wallpapers for each. I keep a solid black wallpaper on homeacreen, but now a light grey (stone/granite image) wallpaper for lock screen. This enables me to use my lock screen as a fast flashlight when walking across my pitch black apartment at night, just to get from room to room.

    I have a flashlight on this phone, a bit bright. I am pretty sure I can see through multiple walls and other dimensions with it. A cosmic black hole would never stand a chance, lmao

  • Train

    Through fields of endless green, on tracks hammered into the black soil below, in a box of metal, I hurtle through reality. I'm trying to be the branded version of myself, instead of the fake Bangkok version, but the mask is slipping.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Solutions in search of a problem

    Music Information Retrieval (MIR) uses feature extraction for purposes such as classification into categories, source recognition, and distance measures between audio excerpts. In order to capture some of the human auditory capabilities, feature extraction in MIR usually relies on frequency domain techniques and various transforms. It occured to me that much simpler time domain signal descriptors might be useful in some field I haven't thought of, not necessarily audio applications which is what I've been concerned with.

  • ⛺ EMF Camp 2024

    I’ve never made it to EMF Camp, despite it being on my radar for years. House moves, covid, and not being able to convince my SO to go, all got in the way. But this was my year. I’d already bought a roof tent for the car and H0ffman was able to reserve some tickets, so the long wait was over.

    EMF describes itself as *”a non-profit camping festival for those with an inquisitive mind or an interest in making things: hackers, artists, geeks, crafters, scientists, and engineers”* and that’s very much underselling it. Phone-phreaks, network-nerds, linux-beards, hackers, crackers, sceners, game devs, brewers, blacksmiths, mathematicians, and the hard-core crochet crew, milling about in glorious surroundings, for three-and-a-bit days of talks, films and music. Every colour of the sexuality and gender spectrum, open, relaxed, and accepted. 3000 of *my people*.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Using a Local RSS File as My Notification System

      Recently, "Garage: Bad Dream Adventure" came out on the Nintendo Switch eShop for $24.99 USD, as opposed to its $19.90 USD price on steam or $4.99 USD price on the Apple app store and Google Play. Considering how generally niche this game is, I suspect it will go on sale at some point on the Nintendo eShop. I wanted to write a quick program that can scrape the page on nintendo.com to see if a sale is happening and how long the sale is going on for. Not just for this game, but potentially for other games I might have my eye on as well. Building that web page scraper was relatively straight forward for me, but I needed to solve another problem... How do I get that information in front of me so I am made aware of it?

      There are a few things I check on my computer nearly every day, and sometimes multiple times a day. One of those things would be email. Initially I wanted to have my program email me when it detects specific sales, but I didn't really feel like dealing with spam filters to make sure the emails come through for me to see. Another thing I check often enough is my RSS feed reader. That's what I decided to build these notifications for.