Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🔤SpellBinding: AHOSTWU Wordo: MOLAS

  • Lies and DUIs

    welp

    i finally did it

    i got my first dui

    stupidly decided to drink

    and drive

    and speed

    and proceed to get arrested

  • Pale September, may energy return

    My favorite season, The Harvest, is here. Cooler more now, so happy. Raining. Here's a playlist.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Useless Analytics

      I don't have any fancy analytics on my site. I've been told I don't need them[1]. In any case, installing some such software is against the hand-rolled approach I take with this site.

      I do still want to look at stats. I do this by grepping through my server logs. I even set up a way to log webmentions. I know it's best not to obsess too much, but I want such Internet Points[2] as I can get.

    • One Year

      I had to renew hosting and domains for hearsay.tech today.

      Time feels long. When I think back to starting this gemlog, it feels like... ages ago. A different epoch. Even when time goes fast, it goes slow in many ways. Sometimes I get to the end of the week and am slightly surprised it's Friday, but when I look back at Monday, I feel the gulf.

      Going through the motions of renewal poked a reflective part of me, and I thought back to how I felt about the last 12 months.

      There were some gradual but large changes this year.

      I gained energy that I didn't expect to have.

    • How? How do people not know their own email addresses?

      I'm still receiving emails from strangers [1] who for some reason or another, think their email address is “seanconner@gmail.com” (no [2], really [3], I [4] get [5] so [6] many [7] emails [8]). This time, it's from someone who's TikTok account was accessed on a new device: [...]