Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • The tism and speedy brain can't focus

    So I have been struggling for a while, coming to terms with the fact that I most like have some sort of spectrumness going on in the wet thing, that pilots this bone mech with meat armour.

    As I have delved deeper and deeper into this, I have noticed that if I am indeed such a person, we would seem to be doing a grouping thing and especially being drawn to specific things. Mind you, I am not yet diagnosed with anything, as diagnosis here takes 2+ years.

  • The Fancy Neighborhood

    One time in the early 00s, this was many years before I had moved to Stockholm but I was visiting there. I was visiting a pen pal who lived in a fancy neighborhood. He was hours late so I just hung out outside. My clothes were home made but had seen better days. I had a can of uncooked crushed tomatoes to nosh on and maybe some French rolls.

    Turns out that completely coincidentally, this day there was supposed to be a big anarchosocialist demo. This was back in the day before the kids turned right wing. It was the first Bush term. Maybe a li’l less than one year after the Gothenburg shitshow in 01. Now, back in my home town, yes, that was absolutely the kind of punks I hung out with on the daily. But I had no idea that this demo was gonna take place. I learned that in the day there, I saw a poster or something. The whole shtick of the demo was the “class journey”, everyone meeting up in another neighborhood then marching to the fancy one. I wasn’t gonna participate. I was just there to meet my pen pal.

  • Band name or butcher shop?

    Oh man, has it been some kinda last few months...

    My recent phlog hiatus is explained by the many new responsibilities I've picked up over the past several months: daughter starting middle school, son starting high schoool, DIY'ing as much of what reamins of our recent (and over-budget) backyard remodel as possible, and oh yeah, starting a new job...

    That's right. I'm almost 3 months into my new role as a senior "Solutions Engineer" at Memfault, an embedded systems tooling vendor. I'm excited about the new gig and have really enjoyed getting to know my new co-workers, and I'm sure I'll have more to say about Memfault, but this post is actually a tribute to my previous team of co-workers.

  • 🤺 dimkr vs 🧌 Somebody: Turn 0

  • Chosen Names

    "Enjoy the little sideshow? Well, we'll keep your secret if you keep ours. Just about time to go back topside to the public part of the store, isn't it?" Neon's digital face and modulated voice were as impossible to read as they were at the start of the night. Occasionally the curve of the smile or the size of the eyes had varied to display varying emotion. There was none of that this time, and yet, something in the question made Holly pause.

    Sideshow? Was that all this really had been. Looking back over the events that had led to this moment, Holly couldn't believe that. Taking Neon at face value was just illogical when placed next to reality. The hero, if she could even call him that Holly was fairly sure he shouldn't be called that, had felt like he'd been poking and prodding Holly's mind. At first it had been like he was trying to get a rise out of her, to push her beyond her limit so he'd have a reason to hand her over. But something stuck out, or the lack of it.

• Technology and Free Software

  • 🔤SpellBinding — EGYIRSH Wordo: LOPPY

    This is a wordlog for the SpellBinding puzzle (in which you construct words using the specified letters; each word must contain the anchor letter).

  • comfort and hardship

    I have a rocky relationship with comfort and hardship. I don't feel like my parents exposed me to much hardship in my life. I mean, I didn't even have chores most of my life. My mom grew up as one of the older siblings in a very large and poor family, where everyone had to work to survive. My dad, on the other hand, grew up very well off financially and had a great deal of privilege. For whatever reason, it was my mom who ended up shouldering most of the weight in my family when I grew up. I think since she was already accustomed to hardship, she simply took things on herself. I often asked her if I could help out; this seemed to work best when she was baking, as there's usually extra work for more hands when baking, and there are quite a few parts of baking that aren't particularly dangerous—you might not get scalded or burned, but you might get hands and clothes full of flour.

  • AI is ruining software engineers

    I am still fairly new in the software engineering world. I graduated from University only a few years ago, but I already feel like the old man yelling at the clouds. There are two main reasons I feel like AI is ruining the up and coming developers.