Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🔤SpellBinding: TGILOSC Wordo: ASTRO

  • eighth

    today was pretty okay! kinda boring.. and im very tired haha.. but.. my mind has felt loud today in ways i can't put into words. wagh

• Technology and Free Software

  • Halfway Done With 2-Bit Game Boy Tarot Card Project

    In the end of February 2022, I decided to start working on a Game Boy homebrew game project. That project was a tarot card reader for the Game Boy. The complicated part of that project though is that I need the tarot card designs to be converted to something the Game Boy can use, so I have slowly been working on those designs since.

    At the beginning of 2024, I only had 8 designs done out of the 78 tarot cards. One of my 2024 new year resolutions was to try and do 1 card design each week in 2024, which would get my total up to 60 or 61 at the end of the year out of 78. I have been blowing past that rate though! This is the 14th week of 2024 and I have done 31 designs this year. That means I'm at 39 out of 78, which is halfway through! I can now comfortably do only 1 a week if I wanted to and be done by the Winter Solstice.

  • Godot

    I recently got myself a new computer. I haven't had one like this for a long while now. All I've really used for the past many years has been a little old netbook I got on a pawn shop over 6 years ago. For reasons I have used for the most part the command line in all this time. Yes I've used X and web browsers on it, and Emacs, and say, ghostscript and the like. But I've done most of what I do on the command line, and it's very unfamiliar to me suddenly using "modern" GUI applications. I installed Godot and Gimp, and I have been reading the docs and tutorials, but I feel quite out of my element. I am sure all these tabs and menus and buttons have very useful information throughout, but I get easily overwhelmed with all this new information in my eyes. I guess it alwasys takes time to get to know a new technology.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • AuraGem Ask, Sefaria Proxy, and A Major Update

      I have finally brought AuraGem Ask back up. I have also fixed the Sefaria proxy. The biggest change, however, is that while AuraGem was down for most of the day today, I was spending hours and hours switching the server from Windows to Ubuntu Server. This means moving 200 GB worth of data, along with setting up the databases again, getting wifi drivers to work (because every time I use Linux Server versions, I *always* get internet connection problems). I also put a bit of time into optimizing firebird's settings so that the database responds faster (hopefully).