Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • week 34 recap

    the "good things" post already outlined big items from this week. the health consult thing on tuesday really wrecked my week, just by how out of the ordinary it was. routine out the window, needing to recover from the people-ing and figuring out a new place etc. i'm really happy things are moving forward and are relatively simple! but yeah, the next steps will be similarly disruptive. there was a lot of downtime gaming - diablo with partner, stardew with a friend, and baldur's gate with a whole group of us.

  • Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost (G)

• Technology and Free Software

  • A complete guide to hybrid project management

    You've probably heard of hybrid project management, but you've never received any guidance on how to do it. Well, that ends today because I'm going to give you an easy-to-understand, easy-to-follow approach to building your very own hybrid project management system!

    To make it easier, I'll use a gastronomic analogy. Grab a pen and paper and write down your preferences as you read mine.

  • Books

    This month was themed with the local censorship reaching YouTube, employing DPI to drop some of the packets directed to it (making YouTube videos challenging to watch without censorship circumvention tools, but still possible to extract information out of), while claiming that those are Google's technical issues. From personal observations, even casual users are unhappy about it, discussing "VPN" (by which they mean proxying, but apparently even non-VPN proxying software advertises itself as "VPN" now: just as X.509 certificates and TLS are advertised as "SSL", and numerous other common inaccuracies), though apparently understanding the situation even to a lesser extent than it is viable from the currently available information. There are other things going on, of course, of the violent kind, but those do not affect daily lives of most people as directly.

  • Nimlike failure and Contact info

    After trying to get Nimlike setup and working in Molly-Brown for a few hours today i probably have to declare that i failed. I didn't get any real informatin on what failed, instead i just get "Exit status 1" and a empty stderr.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • GoToSocial problems

      So you're considering self-hosting? You heard good things about GoToSocial? I like it. I use it. This post is about the problems you should be expecting at the moment.

    • Cornquest: An interactive fiction game for gemini

      Conquest is a little branching path, choose your own adventure, interactive fiction fantasy adventure story. In it, you get to play a child hero trying to save their village. Your quest takes you beyond the safety of your corn obsessed village, deep into the spooky woods, and below and above the earth. It is a little absurd, a little surreal, and---I hope---a lot of fun!