Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🔤SpellBinding — FGWILNH Wordo: SQUAB

  • new moon april

    Recuring dream
    that I miss my
    flight
    
    
    That gut sensation
    of missing out
    the stess
    the self loathing
    
    
    What am I not seeing?
    
    
    I miss her
    

  • martial art competition

    To have a safe environment where you can fight, go to your limits yell and cry, then calm down and try again is one of the most valuable experience I see in youth development.

    I had the opportunity over the weekend to help with a local martial art competition. This year there were 4 schools, including our small dojo and 2 students.

    The event ranged from kata competition, to sparing and speed kicking. It is in the tradition of Tae Kwon Do and although our dojo is Karate in the shotokan lineage, we like to go and help and get our students to see how other school and even other martial art does it.

  • 808UL was just an exercise. Here's the real deal

    Sometimes, my hobby projects are doomed to be short-lived, but they serve their purpose nonetheless. The lifetime of the 808UL VM between the completion of its four reference implementations and officially announcing its deprecation was about... one week. No, I'm not going to shut down the repo or the JS version web page, but I'm not going to develop them further. And let me explain why: because over this time period, I have come up with something even better instead.

• Technology and Free Software

  • busiless: A Simple Task Tracking and Auto-Prioritization Tool

    For the past few months I've been regularly using a custom task tracking tool called busiless. I'm very happy with the tool: it's tiny and unobtrusive, integrates seemlessly into any code repository, and best of all runs entirely locally. After a few months of testing and polishing it's finally time to show it off to the world.

    Installing busiless is described in the link below, as well as all usage information in detail. The rest of this post will be a simple, high level overview.

  • Programs

    I use Homebrew to get a lot of random small programs that I otherwise never would have bothered to get. However, the output of `brew list | wc -l` is currently up to the mid-200s, and a lot of these are mere dependencies of things I actually care about.

    Still, `brew update` is a half-decent way to get notified of new command-line programs that you might be interested in. Whenever I see something that looks interesting, I look at its homepage and see if it looks like it’s cool.

    This page, then, is a list of things I carry around with me and why. Or at least looked at briefly and thought “hey, this might be useful”.