Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🔤SpellBinding — BCULNOK Wordo: SNOTS

  • The Hardest Part about Growing Up

    For a person such as myself, it's realizing that your parents are no longer the upstanding moral guardians you once looked up towards to help you out of the stickiest of situations.

    As for mine, most of the sticky situations I was in...I wish they'd let me stay with them.

    Sending your child away to places to treat their troubled mind is one of the most neglectful things a parent can do, in my personal opinion. And with each place I was sent to, my love for my parents...faded like a dwindling fire.

• Technology and Free Software

  • The Flipside of Interface Modality

    We can further define the degree of co-modality to be the amount of extraneous information the user is forced to attend to on account of bad interface design.

    For example, "alt-tabbing" to give a certain window the input focus in a multi-window system exhibits a ridiculous degree of co-modality.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • web building

      Oh golly I have fallen into some digital web spiral of endless surprises! I think I need to regain my trajectories otherwise I'll never get anything done. Then again... SOFA I thought it'd be cool to build my skills in computering and whatnot by building my own website. I like smol.pub to write, and read some general happenings and thoughts of other fine peeps, and I will stay here for that. But I also like to tinker, gain control of my stuff, create and express in different ways.

  • Programming

    • Janet for Mortals (a real book)

      This book was converted from the html version to gemtext in July 2024 by Andrei Il'in with the kind permission of Ian Henry. Feel free to contact me by ortfero [at] gmail [dot] com.

    • A Programmer In Search Of A Myth

      Today's work was a lot of rearranging and adjusting code. If I've done it right things should now be mildly more convenient for me, and there should be no sign of the changes to anyone else. This is often a goal in programming. There is a lot of work that goes into designing things such that big or small changes can be made inside a program, while whoever or whatever is using it keeps going on their merry way. There are good reasons to do this, and work that has no direct effects can still be useful in paving the way for other work, but it still feels rather strange.

      I wonder, what other fields does this sort of situation happen in? I know how it comes about in software, but the world is a much bigger place than software and I have no doubt that it can take many forms.