Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • active day

    Woke up

    Clubhouse. Made lunch. Stayed busy from 8:30 - 1:30

    Scored a box for shipping back an item to Amazon

    Came home

    Packed item

    Walked "back" to (same distance) The UPS Stor

  • 🔤SpellBinding: FHISNOM Wordo: LANKY

• Science

  • Diagonal Cost

    A not uncommon concern in roguelike (or grid-based) games that seek more realism—putting aside how realistic motion is for a virtual character on a virtual grid—is whether to cost a diagonal move at 99 versus orthogonal moves at 70, more or less. Why these numbers?

• Technology and Free Software

  • xBill for PalmOS receives an update after 25 years

    In the late 90's my SlackWare Linux distribution came bundled with a neat little game called xBill. The goal of the game is to prevent the 'Bills' from spreading Windows to other computing devices. This game was addressing a very relevant topic in the 90's, where Microsoft's antitrust behavior was pushing out competitors on the market.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • best of the /de\cent||ral\ized/ web

      i've enjoted the past six months on gemini ~t r e m e n d o u s l y~ it's been a truly cathartic online experience i've got to the point where i'm mostly hanging around gemini somewhere or other

    • my second gemlog

      it's been exactly 30 days since my last post. now i'm high and not drunk. basically not a lot has changed except now i'm buried in work. thanks obama.

  • Programming

    • Hex Encode

      Of course many such implementations have been created over the years, and it can be good practice to write yet another, but such encoders mostly strike me as not being very hex-like. I mean, where are the hexagrams?