Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • even sillier questions

    Inspired by the silly questions from yesterday, I decided to make (and answer) some even sillier questions.

  • 🔤SpellBinding — AFLMNUY Wordo: SEDER

• Technology and Free Software

  • CSS

    I put the CSS back on my website today. I rather enjoyed the simplified look. It got me thinking about low CSS and no JS web apps. HTML5 can do a lot out of the box. So using the tricks I've learned I tossed a little demo together.

  • Github Problems

    Hey all. As some of you may know, github recently took down my account. That's why I had to re-upload all of my project download files to my website instead of having them with the repo. My account was removed due to a terms of service violation. Which terms of service you may ask? They told me it was specifically the "sexually obscene content" section of it. If any of you have used my mods, you would know they contain no sexually obscene content. I myself am even asexual and don't ever even consider adding lewd content to my mods. All I did was advocate for zoophilia and aparently that was enough to be sexually obscene. They see us as inherently sexual. Even those of us who only love non-humans romantically. I would urge all zoos to stay away from github. The mod team is apparently mostly antis and their support team isn't any better. I truly hope for a day when we can be ourselves without antis being all interfery.

  • A Little Spring Scripting

    Spring is here, and all week long the winds were stripping cherry blossoms from the trees; a pink blizzard blowing past my office window.

    April is exam month and already the campus is notably quieter than before, though the Library is still packed with students hunkered over their laptops (and the occasional book). My administrative work has somewhat lightened up and there are more meeting-free gaps in my calendar. All signs pointing to the imminent arrival of summer session, when things get really quiet, and I shift into project mode.

    This week I was able to set aside a few hours to do a little scripting. In Perl, presumably because I'm a crusty irascible cantakerous old person full of stubborn ideas[1]. Well, it was the first scripting language I ever learned, being the New Hotness back in the mid-90s, when I became interested in such things. And while poor Perl gets a bad rap for readability, not only has it served me well ever since, it has saved me from having to learn other, nuttier languages where even the most trivial spaces and tabs are Significant. ;-)

    It was pleasant to do some technical work for a change, though I couldn't help wondering whether my scripting skills (never more than adequate) had perhaps deteriorated somewhat from lack of use.