Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • summer heat grows worse every year

    whenever i open the door to my study room, the heat comes in like a wave. you can feel it move around. if i didn't have a fan in the room, it's probably at a point where it can suffocate.

    maybe it's an exaggeration to say that every year is worse than the last, when it's something i barely remember anyway...

  • A beer, please

    Hello good people of the midnight pub. How is it going tonight? Feels like a nice place here, I think you'll see me around some more in the future.

  • Preschool math club flyer

    The actual flyer's '90s punk rock 'zine style, courier type pasted on math-patterned endpages of Soviet preschool math book, with photocopied stubby Crayola pencils, a toy clock, Soviet illustrations of preschoolers with a set-square and making a rhombus of colored rods, titles written in chalk on writing slate and photocopied off it. A black-and- white flower pungent with toner nectar to attract any cool parents in this county I don't know.

  • GTD vs timeboxing

    GTD draws a hard line between calendar items and todo items, saying to keep calendar items few and sharp and don’t miss them, and leave lots and lots of unscheduled time to work off your lists.

  • When calendar was a verb

    I’ve found that when my calendar is cumbersome to use, I tend to instead make todo items like “remember to calendar that dentist appointment on may sixth”, i.e. a note to self that I’d have to put that in there, and sometimes I’d even procrastinate so much on doing that that I got double booked and messed up.

    These past two years when I’ve been using a paper calendar always with me, I haven’t had to do that anymore and at first I didn’t even notice that improvement because it was so natural. Then as I’m considering going back to digital, I’m like “hold on—maybe not. Remember having to tell yourself to calendar things?”. It’s a whole class of tedious and awful todo items that are now just gone because with the paper calendar I just enter them directly and immediately. It’s one big source of stress that no longer exists. I hope that was a problem unique to me, to have “calendaring” as a verb be a chore, a consequence of the way I had set up my system.

  • Thoughts on Zenshuu

    I have finished watching Zenshuu.

    Personally, I think it is a delightful piece of animation, and example of pre-LitRPG isekai that tells its story in satisfying way. Alhtough I presonally think it could use a bit more episodes (and some other people think it could use less) It features much better pacing and structure than for example BNA and it's ending, wihile is not as flashy as it could be, is actually in line with themes set up in it's story (looking at you, deca-dance).

  • 🔤SpellBinding: AYCKSTB Wordo: SIRED

  • Close Enough

• Technology and Free Software

  • Mario World page (pure symbols) ASCII

    I had the idea to make a page entirely of symbols, without graphics, it took a very long time to draw I would be grateful for comments and constructive advice

  • Analog: Adder, Interference (publ. 2025-03-25)

    I added another integrator module, and then an adder module. The adder module produces a direct sum of up to four input signals. One of the signals is 10x — smaller resistor — while the others are all 1x.

    Regarding the integrators, I saved some board space by sharing a relay between two integrators, since each is SPDT. The relays handle switching between Initial Condition and OP/RUN mode.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Geminispace Community - Commune of 1

      Uh oh... this is one of those "Geminispace posts about Geminispace"... I have at least 1 more of these kind of posts I want to write at some point.

      [...]

      At the moment, the only requirements of creating a Gemini server are the ability to handle requests from Gemini clients over the Internet and TLS 1.2+. That's it. A domain name of course is certainly recommended and makes the TLS handling quite a lot easier. Having more than 1 person use Gemini is not a requirement and I believe it SHOULD NOT be a requirement at any point.

      Community is a good thing for the internet in my opinion. The Gemini protocol SHOULD be used as a foundation by at least some people to build and foster communities, but the protocol itself should stay agnostic about whether any more than 0 or 1 person exists.

    • ideas for a graveyard

      I'm still relatively new to the smol web/gemini, but from what I've been able to tell from exploring around a lot of it has already been abandoned, perhaps a bit after 2022? I'm not sure of the context, but that's not really my point here.

      What if people made a kind of "graveyard" for all of these sites? Like an aggregator for capsules that used to work and be linked to, but no longer exist.

  • Programming

    • Running gitlab-ci jobs locally

      I feel like every few years I need to remember how to do this again, and every few years the way to run things locally changes. As of right now it feels like gitlab-ci-local works really well, so here is how to install and run jobs so I remember and maybe you will remember too.