Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

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• Politics and World Events

  • Voted

    Second last day of advance voting today. Unlike last time, where my riding had literally dozens of candidates (the "longest ballot protest" being a regular thing in Canada, and targetting leaders' ridings this time), there were just the usual four: Conservative, Liberal, New Democratic Party, and Green.

    And so we drove down to the temple, and waited in line about forty minutes, and voted.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Blog Questions Challenge: Technology Edition

    I can't remember a time when I was not interested in technology. In fact my mother told me the story that I sawed up our rotary dial telephone to see what's in this magic thing when I was a very young boy (no joke!).

    But I was always interested in these things like digital watches and digital calculators and such. Nothing special, it just had to be an electronic gadget.

  • "Use the Best Tools You Have for the Current Environment"

    The title a quote that's stuck in my head for some unknowable amount of years. At least a dozen. Probably fifteen. Maybe more?

    The context being, when I was a junior developer at my first job after university, I remember talking with one of the architects, a nice and smart guy who shared a few interests with me (primarily, roguelikes, and specifically nethack). I remember talking to him about doing some compilation on Windows and getting cygwin going there, and he sort of shook his head, and said, just use Visual Studio: use gcc for Linux, Visual Studio on Windows, but always use the best tools available for whatever environment you're in.