Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🖼️ xkcd: Phase Changes #3144

  • 🔤SpellBinding: EUMPRTH Wordo: FIRED

  • Aminona, Tièche, Merdechon

    We went from Aminona to the Cave du Sex and had our lunch there, then went up along a waterfall and further along the *bisse* (an artificial creek to distribute the water between the mountain meadows away from a source) to the Tièche.

  • So You Think Your Options Are Worth Something…

    You just got a job! They're going to pay you! Congrats!

    Maybe as part of your offer they threw in a little something, some employee stock options, to sweeten the deal. "Well, I'll just ignore those for now, maybe they'll be worth something one day", you say to yourself.

    This is for you. Yes, those options may indeed be worth something one day. Probably they won't. But even if they are, the road to the money is longer than it seems, and filled with speedbumps that you won't see coming. I'm writing this so you can navigate the road with as much foresight as possible, because from what I've seen these things aren't well documented.

    If this document seems long and discouraging, that's because it is! When you're dealing with equity it's a player-vs-player world, and you have to be an active player. You can choose to see this as a fun challenge, or as an injustice, or as just being the rules of another game you have to play.

    However you see the situation, you have to commit to playing if you want results.

    A final note before starting: this is a living document. If any detail is wrong, missing, or incomplete, please let me know, and I'll keep it updated.

• Technology and Free Software

  • TV Time Machine: A Raspberry Pi That Plays Random 90s TV

    - Take a Raspberry Pi (I used a cheap tiny Raspberry Pi 3A+)

    - Fill the SD card with all your favorite shows from your childhood

    - Add a script that starts playing those shows in a random order at startup