Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🔤SpellBinding: HULPRSI Wordo: SLYER

• Politics and World Events

  • We have always been at war with Eastasia

    The EU’s belatedly and slowly turning the proverbial boat around on Israel’s war is kind of hard to come to grips with mentally. I felt something similar when the pandemic was taken so seriously, that if they ever take climate change this seriously I’m gonna be like “What are they thinking? A stitch in time would’ve saved ninety-nine!”

    If they were gonna act anyway, which, do not get me wrong, it’s great that they are, then they should’ve earlier because it would’ve saved so many lives.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Movie Memories

    Below is a list of movies that "blew me away" as they say in some high-brow critiques. These are movies I obsessed about, watched multiple times and forced on friends and family (sometimes to disasterous effect). Whether critically panned or universally lauded, these movies made an impression.

  • Moving to Linux

  • Programming

    • Another way to classify programming languages

      Steve Yegge once wrote a fun article trying to place programming languages on a liberal-conservative spectrum. Roughly this axis was about "risk aversion":

      Notes from the Mystery Machine Bus - Steve Yegge

      I have a whimsical new classification: a two factor model, where the axes are "bloody-mindedness" and "fastidiousness".