Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Rewatching V for Vendetta

    It has been many years since I saw "V for Vendetta" and it always had this "something something transgender" vibe to me that I couldn't pinpoint well. Well, this was before the Wachowsky sisters came out and of cause, it's a movie written by two trans women.

    Because I got reminded about this movie today I gave it a re-watch some years later.

    This isn't as much of a review as it is me reflecting on what it means to me, emotionally and spiritually.

  • More on learning to read

    I wrote in January about helping my 4-year-old learn to read.

    She practiced writing letters in Shell Education's *180 Days of Printing* workbook, read *McGuffey's Eclectic Primer*, and used as learning aids slate, chalk, and Rainbow Phonics magnetic letters + My First 100 Words cards, both by Junior Learning.

    She built skill. A few days in March she did work- book pages independently before I woke. I abandoned learning aids, pushed near-daily reading and writing practice.

    Meeting resistance

    Mid-March she balked; threw a fit at reading and writing practice. Evy + roommate counseled a break.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Site migrated

    I've migrated my old gemini capsule from my old domain to SourceHut.

    SourceHut does not allow CGI applications to run for security reasons, so I have temporarily disabled my applications. Apology for the inconvenience.

  • JPEG XL is useful today

    Even though cameras don't (yet) produce JPEG XL files natively, and even though browsers are dragging their heels on support, it's still useful today as a special-purpose compression algorithm for archiving existing libraries of JPEG files.

    cjxl will shave 22% off the size of existing JPEGs, and djxl will rehydrate back to the exact original file. This is a real and substantial cost saving when sending them to deep archive storage.