Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Digital garden (again)

    I've tried many times to start some sort of wiki/digital garden but it never really took off.

    But I'm trying again, maybe it will work this time.

    What I want to centralize is my own knowledge base without having to copy paste external content into it. I often write about the same subject on different phlog, and then it all comes together.

  • Naps.

    As in, my cat is taking one right on top of my feet.

    I weighed myself today, and was shocked to see I was sitting at 132 lbs. This time last year, I had weighed myself at around 169 lbs. I never thought I'd ever be able to shed so much weight, yet I did. Wow!

  • Saturday is a good day

    Except I've had two pairs of Crocs for years and after the New Year's celebration I can't find either of them, and it's really sad (and at rare times inconvenient) without them. Makes me triste and hurts my kokoro.

  • Insomniacs After School

    Somewhat recently I read, and enjoyed, the manga "Insomniacs After School", by Makoto Ojiro. Thanks to Sandra for the recommendation! It's a high-school romance story in which a defunct astronomy club plays a non-negligible role, but I would hesitate to say the series was really *about* astronomy.

  • Insomniacs After School

• Technology and Free Software

  • Epy for Epub

    Epy is a nice CLI reader for epub format books. I’ve been using Zathura under X and Wayland, but for stuff that’s really just text, I don’t see a point in waiting for a document to render in a GUI.

    After opening a book for the first time, Epy will remember. Launching Epy again with no arguments will re-open the previous book.

    Help is available by pressing ?.

  • A quick note about Amazon

    The author has made an informed choice to quit Amazon in 2025, because it's now a complete dumpster, and it must be acknowledged that the author was, in fact, in a privileged position to be able to afford fewer purchases, much less frequently than before, and at a slightly higher price, even if the quality is the same

    Most of Amazon's existence, it was distant, literally unavailable anywhere in ~2000km radius around where the author lived. There were times the price of an item that needed to be purchased (e.g., vacuum cleaner bags or filters) at the local shop and on Amazon would differ by 20–30%, and not in favor of the local option.

  • 2026-01-11

    So those that read this here phlog of mine probably already know that I don't care much for having the latest and greatest in computing. I mean my main laptop that I use every single day as my daily driver is a 14 year old HP elitebook...

    And that extends to a lot of other parts of my computing environment including my network equipment. And I am sad to report that my trusty Linksys WRT54Gv3 router has given up the ghost and died...but not because it stopped working. No no no, these old routers are complete tanks.

  • AI in Neovim

    It took a lot of trial and error to get the CodeCompanion Neovim plugin to work. I thought maybe it would help replace quick google searches or help to provide quick code snippets so that I wouldn’t have to go and look over as many samples before starting in on an unfamiliar task.

    Instead it was really hit or miss. It was great at producing toy programs and translating them (more or less) between languages. And then it was able to produce nearly correct Nix package definitions for packaging up those toy programs.

    However, it produced python with subtle, but common, bugs that took a long time to nail down.

    It’s sort of handy at producing sentences in foreign languages.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Xobaque imports Sitemaps

      If you have a small number of sites you want to cover with your own search engine, I might have you covered. Xobaque is a search engine based on Sqlite. The most useful part of it is that it doesn't crawl the web. So how does it index the pages? You feed it with a list of feeds (RSS, Atom, JSON), or with a list of OPML files (containing feeds), or a list of Sitemaps (linking to every page directly).