Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Theater, 2 weeks left

    I finalized the electronics for the play (mic + mini sound card + rpi + battery powered speaker) I recorded some violin and synth for the sound effects, I also recorded some gongs.

    Tomorrow I'm finalizing the bug's costume, hopefully to have it ready for this Wednesday.

  • Fantasy Life Day

    It’s October 10ᵗʰ. This was the new release date for Fantasy Life i until it was delayed further. The new-new release date is April 4. I like the 10/10 and 4/4 dates, that’s a nice touch, but since I wont be able to play the new one today, I’ve been playing the old one. Not just today, but for a few weeks now. I’ve managed to get a few Lifes up to Master rank, but my level isn’t high enough to get the Origin Island content unlocked yet.

• Politics and World Events

  • "Worship" Is Not a Dirty Word

    While I appreciate technical distinctions made for tradition-specific discussions, I'm also so tired of supposed-universal differences between latria, dulia, reverence, veneration, and so on. Worship is worship. "Worship" is a generalizable term, and it's a good one to use—and not one we should shy away from.

    One might not worship a god like how they'd worship a hero, or a prophet how they themselves worship their god, but one still worships them both. While there might be specific ways of worshipping them appropriate for different recipients, they are still worship; humans or non-god forces and entities can be divine (if not divinized or apotheosized) too, and can be equally worth our worship as any god, even if that worship is done differently for different recipients. And yes, sometimes technical distinctions matter in a tradition-specific context to delineate and delimit what kinds of worship is appropriate to specific recipients or in specific rites. That's very well and good! But it all still generalizes to "worship" in the end, with all these various forms of veneration, reverence, etc. all just being types of worship.

  • Israel, the Church, and God's Plan (publ. 2024-11-02)

    In the September Friends of Israel call-to-action letter, Dr. Jim Showers summarized a few theological and prophetic points in a helpful way. I want to quote here some parts of that letter.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Internet/Gemini

    • As God as my witness I thought turkeys could fly.

      Trying to write something. Came here to get a drink and take a break.

  • Programming

    • Feeling Rusty

      I've challenged myself to try and learn Rust this weekend. A long while back I actually did write a chatbot using Rust, but I was mostly just throwing things at the wall. At no point did I ever understand the language or any of what I was writing.

      After chatting with a friend about Zig, I became interested in having another crack at Rust. I've been using a lot of Rust-based software recently (COSMIC desktop, the Helix editor) and I have a project in mind that will require me to write a platform-native app with a GUI, so I thought now's as good a time as any to see if I am actually capable of learning a language properly. After all, I've been writing Javascript professionally for years now and I still don't think I really understand it.