Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Seventh Sunday After Pentecost (G)

  • becoming is hard

    i haven't written here in a while! i was busy becoming new. still am. turns out it takes a lot of effort. even a simple thing like knowing you deserve and wanting a clean tidy home. doing everything from start to finish, including cleanup, is much more energy consuming than focusing on the core of the thing itself.

  • Candyfloss

    I ate candyfloss last weekend. It had been made at the faire. I know this because it had the faint succulence of faded fried onions and cooked burgers soaked into its cotton.

  • I Think I'm Back

    Not sure this will actually reach anyone, but whatever. My capsule kind of disappeared without me realizing it, and honestly my inactivity lead to the error remaining undiscovered for quite a while.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Dreadful .scripts

    The debate here is whether scripts should have an extension, e.g. to have a foo.sh or foo.pl or whatever, versus a plain "foo". Some argue that an extension should not be present, as who cares what foo is written in. If your foo.pl gets rewritten in C or whatever then you either need to keep a foo.pl shim around that execs over to the new foo, or to break everything that used the "foo.pl" interface. Without the extension, this problem does not exist—replace the script foo with the binary foo, or the binary with a script, whatever, you're done. I'm very much in the "no extension for things in PATH directory" camp, so look elsewhere for reasons why one would want to keep the dot-whatevers tacked onto random things.

  • building meshtastic from git at the cli

    I cloned the meshtastic repo a few weeks back but was still using the browser based flasher and the images they package. The instructions for building from the CLI seemed absent from the repository. Or at least I didn’t see them.

  • GOWIN Chinese FPGAs

    I haven't done much with FPGAs for a bunch of years. Kind of got disgusted by the proprietary hardware, terrible tools, and general awfulness of verilog (and god forbid, VHDL). Also, modern CPUs can emulate most things I want from FPGAs, but much faster and neater (less physical space, which is at a premium)...

    But I couldn't resist buying a little $10 Sipeed boards with Gowin FPGAs (Nano1K). I should've spent the extra $10 for a much more useful 9K, or even 20K (still under $30)...