Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Work and Consumption

    My relationship with creating has been feeling a bit more hopeful since switching to Adderall to Ritalin. But hope tends to lead me to feeling overwhelmed by the possibilities of something bigger.

    Urgh, I don't know. For now I should just be happy I'm drawing and writing more. Eventually I'll start sharing in my own way again.

• Technology and Free Software

  • I Also Got An Xteink X4

    Have you heard about it? The hot new device? I have recently seen a flurry of discussion about a new gadget: the Xteink X4. This is only a sampling of the blog posts about it: [...]

  • The lack of attention

    I wanted to document something, but then I decided to rewrite it, but then I thought I might need a crow emoji, then I traced a crow head in Inkscape, but then I thought I better install Krita, and now I’m sitting on the toilet and wondering where my day went off the rail.

  • It's Not Just Slop—It's Bad Writing

    There was an article I saw floating around recently. It was about an experiment: setting up a computer with a fake login and leaving it open to the internet[*]. It quickly became apparent as I read it, that it was written by an LLM.

  • Living in the terminal

    For years I treated the terminal like a utility closet: a place to run commands and, more often than not, break things. Once I began to understand what pure text can do, the terminal feels more like home.

    There are a lot of things that a terminal can do, keeping in mind most of it is text. In this post I will show you how easy it is to manage your files, chat, email, edit files, listen to music and organize - all within your terminal.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Re: Who Knows That You Blog?

      For the most part, no one I know in real life knows this blog. My partner knows *that* I blog, but I have not showed it to them. I—like many other people, it seems—feel a sense of separation between real life and internet life that I am hesitant to violate. Also, the name I blog under here is the same one I write fanfiction under, so I feel a little shy about that. Beyond that I am not embarassed about what I write here—even if some things are hastily and uncarefully written. I am sure I'll share this sooner or later.

      But all in all, nobody I know in real life knows both that I blog and where my blog is. At least for right now.

      [...]

      I certainly do prefer to omit personal details. I hope, or think, or expect, that people will simply read between the lines to get an idea of me. I guess I have done a good job of that. In part, I am old enough to have been taught not to give out personal information on the internet. But mostly, I am just very shy. Somewhere in the queue of blog post ideas is one about not posting more pictures—because they are a trace of where I have been and where I am.

    • New Antenna — Official, But Federatable

      Note: This is the post I wanted to publish after ew0k, the creator and current maintainer of Antenna, had officially announced that I would be taking over as the maintainer. But because some people started to wonder about Antenna’s future in the last couple of days, had reservations about centralization and its ability to remove people’s visibility from the Geminispace, and the lack of an official repository containing the source code, I decided to awkwardly publish it today in its original form, just missing the link to ew0k’s soon-to-come announcement, which should arrive shortly.