Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🔤SpellBinding: ESIMNOH Wordo: HELPS

  • something I read just now that resonates

    Anyways, I had big feelings talk with A, which is technically good but also draining in a different yet complementary way. We went to a bar shortly beforehand and the bartender and I had instant chemistry. It was palpable. The bartender had longer hair, and when we left the bar to linger in A's apartment for a while, A asked me if I liked him still even though he had cut his hair recently. It felt like a bit of commentary on the palpable chemistry, dipped in insecurity. Unfortunately insecurity can be quite flattering, and I hate that even as a fleeting fact. Then we spooned and talked about what love is before I biked home.

  • promise of fall

  • on being erased//the holow

    it is dreadful. dreadful, i say. i have gone round and round and round endlessly searching for an end to the meaning of this... lost and sullied connection... kicking a dead horse, yadda yadda...

    i am speaking of my supposed lover, he lied to me again last night, hit me, hurt me some more, and still - still!!! i sit here, which denotes my right to even complain, in my opinion. im a spineless bastard for still doing so, i guess i just need somewhere to put it. somewhere else, somewhere safe,..

• Technology and Free Software

  • My ideal operating system

    I’ve been watching fairly alternative OSs like Haiku (the BeOS clone) and I wanted to really clear the slate and assume multiple orders of magnitude of work done just for this OS. Otherwise an operating system is just a way to run stuff that people can already run on a Linux distribution or macOS.

    Originally, here I said “This is a desktop operating system” but increasingly I’m coming around to the notion that all great modern computing platforms are entire ecosystems and not just a pile of bits that one throws on commodity hardware. Because of this, I’m also specifying stock peripherals like monitors and keyboards and thinking about ways to have peripherals — like wireless headphones — shared between all your devices without an Apple Account coordinating permissions behind the scenes.

  • talk.bizarre archive

    just a little self-promotion here in case any of you are bored and feel like reading something.

    I used to be quite active on talk.bizarre on USENET, and I figured it might be fun to archive my old posts onto my m.pub site. feel free to peruse. the list isn't quite complete yet, but there's quite a bit in there already.

  • talk.bizarre posts

    — but in case you feel like reading something really old, I've been gradually posting an archive of my old posts on talk.bizarre. I can't guarantee that most of them are any good but there are at least a few good ones in there.

  • Gutenberg recents challenge

    I came up with a new challenge, the "Gutenberg recents challenge".

    At least six times per year, pick an ebook from the books listed under "recents - last 30 days" op the Gutenberg website: https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/recent/last30

    The idea behind this is to get out of your "bubble" and read something you wouldn't otherwise.

  • When buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing

  • Alex Schroeder’s Diary — Butlerian Jihad numbers

  • Internet/Gemini

    • introducing plugh

      Now that the project has grown quite a bit, I've realized that it probably doesn't make much sense to wait till it's 100% finished before releasing something, like I did (more or less) with my previous Gemini games. So here is the new subspace for plugh, a successor to xyzzy (see previous post) that actually works the way you might expect it to.

    • CMS - Special Edition

      full backward compatibility with old browsers, ultra compact script without external frameworks