Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Relaxation

    Long day. Biked to work, after that I visited a friend on the way. I went to have a good workout, and got some groceries on the way home. At home, I heated up the sauna and had great time finally relaxing. One final burst of activity to get my things ready for tomorrow, and then I had some food.

  • literature, history, and literary "movements"

    In it, I note that World Book got one thing more right than my four years of undergrad did: it acknowledges that "literary movements" aren't monolithic, easily-defined things. Labeling any author or work a "Transcendentalist" or a "Romantic" or a "Modernist" is, at best, simplistic. This is even true of writers who intentionally and aggressively stuck to a single movement or set of ideas as it developed - like Ralph Waldo Emerson or Bronson Alcott.

    Rather, every writer at every point in history is in conversation - with their own work, with other writers, with current events, with history itself. Those conversations interweave and interact.

    Also, some "movements" are either so aggressively American or so well-adapted to commentary on the American experiment that they never really die. I mean Realism in the former case and Modernism in the latter. I'd even go so far as to argue that were it not for the influence of the CIA, "post-modernism" would not exist.

  • Experimenting with vegan milk kefir

    I have a small culture of water kefir grains, which I use to make… water kefir. Recently, I wondered if I could make something similar to milk kefir using soy milk and my grains. I tried:

    * Putting kefir grains in soy milk * Putting already-made water kefir (which also contains ferments) in soy milk

    Both methods produced kind of the same result, which was a separation of curd and "water". The grains' result was much faster and impressive, but the grains were really hard to remove (unlike in water, you can't really sieve them, since the curd itself will not pass the sieve). I tried skimming the result for various amounts of time, which made :

• Politics and World Events

  • The alleged flaws in LAFRA 2024

    The Conservatives' Leasehold & Freehold Reform Bill of 2024 passed its last stage in the House of Lords on the final sitting day of Parliament before the general election. It quickly received royal assent and became enacted as LAFRA 2024.

    Under its own terms, only a few of its provisions came into force that day. The rest are subject to secondary legislation for "commencement". The government announced in November a timetable for some of the measures to be commenced. But that statement blamed "flaws" in legislation for the inablity to commence some of it.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Updates

    I'm learning Spanish, not very fast and not very good but it takes some my time.

    Also, I was dived deeply in my some projects for Agons:

    - port of CP/M 2.2 - ZINC(ZINC Is Not CP/M) - CP/M compatibility layer for Agon Light and compatible. It similar to WINE for UN*X - translating API calls from CP/M to Agon MOS

    - I've updated SNAIL and made it really good - I've created my own compiler that works directly on Agon - BSimple. It's B- or C-like programming language that compiles to assembly.

    Mostly typeless(one data type - machine word) and have very simple semantic.

    Currently, I'm working on iteration of BSimple development [...]

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Gemini mentions

      In Geminispace there are a lot of creative geminauts :) There are incredible decisions and ideas. One of my following geminauts are Becardi55 and one his idea gemini-mentions[1] was something what I was thinking about, too.

      Some kind of socialization is needful for all people and I am one of them. And Becardi55 created RFC for Gemini Mentions[2]. Also he wrote example in Golang[3].

  • Programming

    • Devlog 14

      Okay, so I went away and did some reading and I've concluded the following:

      * Yes: server-side rendering is a much better approach

      * HTMX is awesome

      * I much prefer Java to Go

      That last one might surprise some of you, but I was able to pretty much implement the entirety of what I've done with Vue/ Go over the last couple of months with Spring, HTMX, and Thymeleaf in a morning. I'm just more efficient with Java. My first real love.