Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🖼️ xkcd: Canon #3123

  • highschool

    do you remember the days when you were a preteen indie rock head? when you would wear corduroy and do your hair in the spunky, unwashed look? when you wore powder blue shirts with hello kitty on them?

    do you remember after the concert, when you always used to go to the back room and have a secret smoke with the band? when you all used to stay at the lead singer's place and make up fairy stories about the two friends who travelled from one ocean to the other?

    and do you remember your first kiss, behind the taco bell in kingston? when your breath smelled like peppermint and his smelled like sprite? the skies were patched with clouds, and the moon struggled to take a peek?

  • Notes After Recording

  • now playing -- what's mare listening to?

    here i'll share a little writeup on every song i get super obsessed with. some of them might end up as major influences in my own art, some will just be things that resonate and make me feel right. i hope youll check them out ♥️

  • 🔤SpellBinding: ABCFLKH Wordo: NUDIE

• Technology and Free Software

  • A totally nerdy thing you can do in Oregon this summer (if you live in Oregon)

    People travel, and some travelers collect ephemera to memorialize their trips or to brag about them. For example, train tickets, postmarks, and such.

    In Oregon, there is a program called Oregon Library Passport. In short, if you have a valid library card from your local library, you can go to just about any public library in Oregon and get a limited-validity card from there.

    For example, if you live in Washington County, the Metropolitan Interlibrary Exchange (MIX) agreement allows you to get a full-validity library card from Multnomah County Library, Libraries in Clackamas County, Hood River County Library, Camas Public Library, and Fort Vancouver Regional Library District. But beyond these areas, you can also take advantage of the Oregon Library Passport program at places such as Newberg Public Library (part of Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library System) and Scappoose Public Library.

  • Transducers in Typed Racket

    I have recently been experimenting with Racket. Overall the experience has been positive. It has a great standard library and a lot of third-party maintained libraries available via `raco`. It is easy to build stand-alone executable. Most things seem to just work. But when I tried to make use of transducers (srfi-171) in Typed Racket I was quite disappointed with the experience. The disappointment stems from the lack of adequate type inference in Typed Racket. I think the issues I have encounter would affect the use of many programming styles that make extensive use of higher order functions, not just transducers.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • my ISP wanted my opinion so I gave it to them

      Yesterday, I completed Project Yeet Broadband by yeeting my broadband. Today, my former ISP sent me a "customer satisfaction survey" via email.

      They asked for my opinion. They got it.

      The very first question was "how likely would you be to recommend us to friends, family, or co-workers?", with a 0 (not at all) to 10 (extremely) scale. I chose zero. They wanted to know why.

      ...Oh boy.

      Techdirt has been running a lot of pieces on public broadband networks recently: Where they exist in the US, how they're getting built, and how they are universally faster and cheaper than the rapidly-re-monopolizing commercial service providers. So I came equipped with NOTES.

      The tl;dr version was "I will never recommend a private broadband company again. Public broadband is cheaper, faster, and offers better customer service in 100% of the markets that adopt it. I will always recommend that people use public broadband or, if they have no access to it, to build some like those two guys in Michigan did."