Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • sick for halloween

    The Moon is Waning Gibbous (57% of Full)

    I like this new automated line on top of my phlog entries. Almost half way to the new moon.

    I am sick today. Since Friday morning, I felt it in my sinuses. I don't mind being sick. It's a different state where I need more rest. I enjoy rainy days, like sunny days.

    I've got back into producing psytrance on my dawless setup. I'm tempted to use a DAW mostly for the visual continuation, something that is hard to 'see' when producing only dawless. I don't see the progression of the work I do, it's somewhat hidden.

• Technology and Free Software

  • MangoWM is nice

    I was having some ram issues on my T480 lately. It only has 8GB of RAM, but even doing a bunch of simultaneous things I made it several months before I ever had a problem. But recently I’ve had a few crashes because the OOM killer shot it in face. Today I spun up a thing to track ram use. Kitty and Sway were my biggest users of ram at around 70M. But then I launched qutebrowser, played a video, killed it, jumped between pages of the UI, and checked in again. 300M that didnt free up after qutebrowser was closed. That’s weird. Other notable processes were the guile-scheme instances that would spawn as a result of package building and such. I have historical tracking with the ram, so I see they spawn over time and go away but they tend not to go over 300M either. The biggest memory hog is the most likely leaking Sway.

    Launched a few more terminals, reconnected to various remote messengers – these are things not even running locally, they’re all ssh endpoints – and my RAM use for JUST sway was over 1G. When it reached 2.5G within the hour I started looking to see what was in the Guix package selection. I ran niri for a little bit, but niri can’t run qutebrowser or any other QT apps. I then tried dwl – talk about weird key bindings by default (and they’re compiled in!) – but abanoned that because it also couldn’t run qutebrowser. I remembered hearing about Mango a few days ago, but I didn’t actually go looking for that. Instead I was going to guix edit dwl so I could figure out where it pulled it source from and start editing the package to change the key bindings when I noticed mangowm right there in the same definition!

  • Internet/Gemini

    • qutebrowser and codeberg

      codeberg doesn’t like older versions of chrome. They used to let you view project pages, now they don’t even do that. Picking a different user agent in qutebrowser gets around the problem. I just did :set user and then picked the user agent option and then set the value to whatever the alternative was that had Linux in the name.

    • Send missing net news articles

      I'm running a little net news network of retro-tech and role-playing games for some friends. There's a web interface if you're interested in taking a look.

  • Software Releases/Announcements

    • october 2026 update

      Hallowe'en is a good time for spooky and/or tricksy things, so here's an update on plugh, the procedurally generated dungeon crawler that I'm working to bring to Gemini.

      You may remember that the game is a work in progress; in my previous post, I shared some of the features that I feel already make it ready for a pre-alpha release.

    • introducing plugh

      awhile back I mentioned that I had started to work on a new dungeon-crawling game that i was hoping to set up on Gemini: [...]