Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🖼️ xkcd — Dental Formulas #3213

  • Re: Humanity and Animality

    Thank you for the thoughtful read, Sunset! When your post first popped up on Antenna, it really resonated with me, as this is a subject that I think a lot about in this day and age. I think that rejecting animality and physicality is an apt description for what's going on with technology these days.

  • no one will be there

    Yesterday, I was running errands for my mother, and it required me to drive down a particular road to get to where I needed to go. I've driven down this road hundreds of times before, and have never given it much thought. On this road is a party hall, one of hundreds I see when I drive around the area. This one has been around since I was a child, possibly before I was even born. My clearest memory of this hall, however, wasn't from all the times I've driven by it. It was of the one time I was inside the hall itself, for my high school best friend's sweet sixteen.

    This had to have been 2009, so a junior in high school. I remember having the time of my life, joking with all my friends. I remember they played I Gotta Feeling by the Black Eyed Peas, and everyone lost their minds and tore the dancefloor up. I remember I fell in love with a boy for the first time in my life. Even if the memories are now faded and I can't quite recall everything with ease like before, I remember that feeling of falling in love. It's not one I've experienced often.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Loadbars 0.13.0 released

    Loadbars is a real-time server load monitoring tool. It connects to one or more Linux hosts via SSH and shows CPU, memory, network, load average, and disk I/O as vertical colored bars in an SDL window. You can run it locally or point it at your servers and see what's happening right now — like `top` or `vmstat`, but visual and across multiple hosts at once.

  • CHANGELOG: reth, It's Fast Now!

    It's amazing how being employed completely sucks the life out of a personal website. All the energy you previously expended on the website, both productive and social, is now spent at work.

    Last June I joined the Paradigm team as a developer working on reth, the rust-based ethereum execution client.

  • IME and click

    I’ve been playing with click for argument parsing and user input and output.

    Turns out, click can handle IME (Input Method Editor) input just fine. As well as copy and paste in the terminal via a mouse.

    In both cases, a single call to click.getchar() returns the entire (pasted or IME input) string.

    So then to treat IME input and pasting as though it were regular user input becomes possible. Just iterate over the value from getchar() and process it.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • ColorColumn in Vim - a follow-up on formatting text for gopher

      I kept thinking about how much nicer it feels to edit plain text when the editor helps you see "rhythm" in your text. One Vim feature that really helps with that is: colorcolumn.

      On its own, Vim already highlights your text as you type. But as soon as you want to format prose or long paragraphs, it's really nice to have a visual guide for line length.