Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🖼️ xkcd: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure #3138

  • Week off

    I took a week off work with no real plans, to use up a bit of annual leave. I haven't taken many holidays this year, so I still have 10 days left to use up between now and November (having already booked my December holiday). The aim was to work on a few projects and relax for a bit.

• Politics and World Events

  • The One and Only God of Isaiah

    Some central tenets of Mormonism are the ideas that (1) God was once what we are now; (2) we can become what God is; and therefore (3) God is just one god among many. To counter this teaching from the Bible, one helpful section to focus on is Isaiah chapters 43 through 45. Below is a list of helpful verses from these chapters. Of course, these chapters are full of beautiful material from beginning to end, but there are a few especially pertinent verses, if we are trying to focus on the uniqueness and the eternality (or immutability) of God.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Trading two endless scrolling sites for two others

    Plus I want to get out of the surveillance capitalism thing as much as possible.

    So I dusted off my Bluesky account, and got myself on mastodon. I still don't really "get" the latter, honestly.

    My moral high ground is in check (lol) but I'm still just endlessly scrolling two sites. Used to be FB and Insta and now it's Bluesky and Mastodon. Better, but I still have a phone usage (addiction?) problem.

  • Posting from Emacs

    So I made this capsule and decided I needed a good way to make posts. I'm sure there's - y'know - actual real solutions to this. But this is my solution. I had some requirements:

    * I wanted it to give me some kind of basic post template so I'm not doing boiler plate.

    * Low Friction! It should update the posts/index.gmi and atom.xml files without me having to think about it.

    * Not require me to directly ssh into the server and edit on there.

    So given those things I figured I'll just turn to the editor I'm already using and leverage emacs. Now emacs has a whole ox-gemtext exporter and stuff but I didn't want to use it. I want to get the full gemini experience and just write in gemtext directly.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Manufacturing Concern — Hello World!