Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • In Transit 🚀

    I did my checklist before leaving earth, but I feel like I forgot something important... Not a fun feeling but I won't really know until I get settled.

    I'm still in the shuttle, between old home and new home, I'm a little bit like an orphan of space now. Better not think about that otherwhile I'll get vertigo!

    The crew started to distribute the paperwork. I though I signed everything already, but they mention that details about my shop and quarters are in there. Apparently, the first civil that got on the Outpost was dropped without any information! Most have been hard to start a new life without even knowning where to sleep! They corrected that, and I'm glad they did!

  • The Dream Job Gone

    I was laid off from my job last week.

    The organization went through a rough period recently after losing a potential contract, but my teammates and I were all told by management that we had ways to weather the storm. We were still negotiating with prospective buyers, training newly-signed customers, and building and releasing new software. Apparently, though, that wasn't enough to prevent a serious contraction within the staff. Out of a group of less than 100 employees, nearly a fifth were let go.

    The layoff was extremely abrupt. We had been given no indication that the organization faced any actual financial trouble, let alone the idea of shrinking its workforce. But my dismissal was effective immediately; I wasn't allowed to finish the workday or transfer any knowledge or outstanding tasks to the rest of my team. My LDAP credentials were actually yanked out from under me while I was in the meeting in which they broke the news to me.

  • Busy Sunday, when I take a moment to contemplate about sleeping more and thus improving life

    Sunday. Quite hectic: there's a lot of preparation to what's gonna be happening in April and May, and there's not enough time to have it all perfectly in order.

    There are few things that I'd like to achieve this year. Most of them are unrealistic, some are incompatible, but so far I have been able to make things work.

    The simplest thing to do was to quit alcohol. I did it back in the middle of the last year, and it's been an easy-breezy ride since. I've never had any particular craving for any sort of substance, except at times I do know that my body needs more protein or more fats. Needing more water is, funnily, a bit less obvious, and fixing it is not always possible, but it's a minor thing that doesn't happen often.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Taskwarrior as an autonomous AI agent loop: 48 tasks in one day

    I let Ampcode autonomously complete 48 Taskwarrior tasks on my eBPF project in a single day. The agent picked up one task after another — implemented, self-reviewed, spawned sub-agent reviews, addressed comments, committed, and moved on — all without me intervening. Here is how the setup works, what the project is about, and the full skill that drives the loop.

• Programming

  • Untitled version numbering system

    This is a system for version numbering that I imagine using in connection with an (unlikely to ever exist) operating system that I have also been thinking about for a long time. This theoretical operating system doesn't have a name either, but for this article I'll refer to it as UnkOS (Unknown OS) for brevity.

    One of the core goals of UnkOS is to delay sunsetting the OS or its core software for as long as possible. Thirty years? Fifty years? More? To help achieve that goal, after its public release, the OS and its core software are expected to only receive bug fixes and security updates. No new features.

    However, that doesn't mean that new features are never developed. They are developed for the next major version only, and are released in conjunction with the next major release of UnkOS. A new major version might be released every five or ten years. New versions of the software would typically be backwards compatible with some previous versions of the OS, so if a user on "UnkOS 3" decides that they would prefer to use "Text Editor 4" from "UnkOS 4", then they could install it. But they would not be required or pressured to do so.