Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🔤SpellBinding — BCYSTUI Wordo: BILLY

  • Tokyo Express

    Another book finished. This time Tokyo Express by Seich Matsumoto.

    This is a crime novel. If you have not read Japanese crime novels, they are a touch different in style. There is much more telling than showing.

    For this novel, we follow a police investigation into a couple who travelled from Tokyo to a coastal town and died by suicide on the beach. There is a corruption scandal in the government and the man is a key part to this.

    We follow a couple of police investigaters who sense something odd about the suicides and so pursue an investigation. A lot of the leaps come via letters sent between the 2. This is where the tell, not show aspect comes in.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Micropelago Cross-Post: Isle Release 0.0.4 (Alpha) - Windows Support!

    ⚠️ ALPHA RELEASE ⚠️ All 0.0.x releases are considered alpha. Future 0.0.x releases will likely contain backwards incompatible changes which may require resetting your network. Expect bugs and missing features.

    It's the moment we've all been waiting for: Windows support is finally here! While Isle is still unlikely to attract a large number of Windows users due to its lack of GUI, at least it has full feature-parity on all supported operating systems and a solid foundation to build on.

    This release is backwards compatible with 0.0.3; you can safely upgrade without any migration steps or downtime.

  • Elastic tabstops and textadept

    Recently I have installed [textadept] text editor and added [elastic tabstops] [plugin] to it. Elastic tabstops is idea simillar to idea of gemtext tables that I [posted] about earlier, but extrapolated to all text. I personaly find it quite interesting and I am sure that it will make coding a much more pleasant experience, although it will not be seen as such in editors that do not have elastic tabstops support

  • ポケットモンスター (Pokemon)

    I actually started playing through ポケットモンスター緑, or /Pokémon Green Version/ outside of Japan, once again. It's the game I started with, getting an imported copy from a local used game store in back in 1997. I know it was 1997, because that store had a standee for Final Fantasy VII on the counter just above the game itself, which I remember quite clearly since I hadn't heard anything about the game until that day...I mean both of them, but regardless. I picked up that copy of /Pokémon Green/, a copy of /Final Fantasy/ for the NES, and a copy of /Star Trek TNG: A Final Unity/ for MS-DOS, before heading home.

    Yes, before most Americans joined the craze and started with Charmander, Squirtle, or Bulbasaur, I had my /Fushigidane/ and was stumbling through a game in a language I didn't even remotely know at the time. But I loved it. I absolutely fell in love with the series that first day, and I ended up with both /Pokémon Red/ and /Pokémon Blue/ when the English versions made it to the US in 1998. I mean, sure, I'd already beat the Elite 4 and Champion Green in my first game, but I couldn't really read Japanese without a guide, and I knew there'd be translation differences (see /Final Fantasy VII/, which I bought because of that standee).

  • Szczeżuja's tinylog

    I'm the big fan of the Silent Service II (1990) DOS game. The game is sentimental to me, it reminds me of playing it when I was about 10. Whenever I wanted to launch a virtual torpedo, I played it. A few days ago I played Aces of the Deep (1994) for the first time. After a while I felt at home. The game is graphically nicer, it probably reflects the realities of commanding a boat a bit better.