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PSA: At some point in the next week I'm going to replace Station's cert with a new one.
You'll see a warning about Station's cert having changed, that it may no longer be trustworthy, that perhaps its creator has been violently murdered by a hit squad from X due to internal jealously about how superior Station is. All of this is false, except the last last part.
Context: Station currently uses a v1 x509 cert, which makes it harder for folks writing custom Gemini clients, and generally speaking, is just old. Bad call, Martin! So, I'll update it to a newer v3 cert and the world can rejoice in harmony, and peace and success will befall us all.
PSA: Station finally now detects links in replies and shows them below the reply itself. In celebration, please link your favourite books. 👌
Just pushed a little update to my personal site (which, to my shame, is still not on Gemini). I also updated my /now page with some deets of my recent retreat to the beautiful town of Hoi An here in Vietnam. https://martinrue.com
Finished the login / auth portion today. now onto the game itself. the rules are going to present the biggest hurdle so I'll need to plan this one out.
Getting a bit more comfortable with Pascal now as I don't have to look up as much stuff.
That there are around 10⁸² atoms in the universe is a great example of how we can’t think well about large numbers. That looks wrong to me at first glance.
working on a new dice game. This time it's fully in Pascal. I'll be reusing some code from Farkle! but converting from Python code, so it'll be slow going.
Controversial opinion(?) I'm sick of finishing books with a strong sense that they were 300 pages just to appease the publisher/market, not because the author couldn't have been just as effective in 100 pages. I consider Derek Sivers a perfect counter example of this. Few books should need 300 pages.
"Impatience is an argument with reality."
I like this. I think it's even more useful with the qualifier: "You can win the argument, but not always."
Impatience can be useful, but only when your odds of changing reality are high enough. Otherwise embrace it. Patience brings presence.
The camera has really been getting its exercise lately. The fact the camera even survived this one is actually a miracle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvZ5amwkvRc
After many visits to Sivers's /now page, I realised his new book (https://sive.rs/u) is in early access. So, naturally, I read the hell out of it. Loved it. Really appreciate the short, provocative style and it left me with plenty of things to mull over.
getting closer to implementing the monthly standings "tournament" board for Farkle. I just need to get the monthly reset working and test it and I should be good. Daily points for the top three finishers:
first: 5 pts
second: 3 pts
third: 1 pt
also need to squash a scoring bug.
drama on gemini aside, @clseibold is a machine. He's made a new protocol (scroll protocol - wrote the spec) based off gemini, gopher+, and I think nex, made a server, reference client, and is working on a gui client to try and rival Lagrange. this, on top of the misfin work and all the stuff on auragem. That's some dedication, especially after I thought for sure he left after the fallout on Gemini's two social platforms.
Finally recorded a new video about life in Da Nang. 📽️ https://youtu.be/4J2uZqipzfY
It just cost me £1.58 to fill up my bike, which is now good for about 200km. Now that's a version of capitalism I can get behind.
Today was peak life: Had a great sleep. Jumped on the motorbike and shot over to the coworking space. Finished a new vlog edit. Met some new people. Got stuck due to the flash storm. Hung out chatting to cool folks. Cruised home on the fumes of petrichor. Dinner and a book.
"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page."
Travel by itself doesn't change you much. What does change you, however, is an openness to engage with the sometimes huge differences in culture, attitudes, daily life, etc., that you often find via travel with that mindset.
Vietnam has been a great teacher so far.
This weekend was one of those that’s just good for the soul. I spent it on a remote island with a bunch of new friends I’ve made here in Vietnam. 10/10.
once I find time I'll add a "all-time high-score" to my Farkle game here in gemini. skyjake also had a neat idea of monthly point leaders.
damn IT band. all this sitting and not exercising made it flare back up again. Time for strengthening and stretching exercises to get rid of the knee pain.
I implemented the dice game Farkle in Gemini. Feedback welcomed (gritty@smallweb.space)
Je fais un test de tinylog
I think I just need to figure out my cron job issue and my game for gemini will be done.
I just learned about recency bias and it's already my new favourite.
I'm shutting down a project I built and ran for 7 years, serving ~3,000 people. It's bittersweet. On one hand it's amazing to contribute something valuable for so many. On the other, our attention and focus are so important, and we have to allow them to take on new things fully.
still thinking about doing a dumb / flip phone challenge
left my phone bedside all weekend. it was nice. I missed basically nothing important.
The root race conditions of all evil are.
My favourite part of last night was having a BBQ with everybody at the coworking space in the dark, because the electricity burned itself down. If you know life in SE Asia, this makes total sense.
What I'm doing now: https://martinrue.com/now
Today, I logged into my text environment and came across an article discussing surfing Gopher on the Commodore 64 machine. What a delightful concept.
A few weeks ago I moved to Việt Nam. Why? 1: To challenge myself and experience life somewhere very different. 2: To live more cheaply and have more time for Yakk and other projects.
Since 13 is so lucky in Asia, here are 13 reflections from my Vietnam experience so far: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/martinrue/7a45d3d5fcd47f643993be4dbb7ac272/raw/f710acdbe0dd16d309ff219c7740687c39bf8b8d/Vietnam.txt
So, after spending the first 2 weeks of this adventure in Hanoi, we're finally in Da Nang. The contrast is massive. Da Nang is like the LA of Vietnam – miles of beach, lots of newer buildings and a very chill vibe. Air is way cleaner too. Loving it in this city and planning on staying a good amount of time.
It's almost 10pm and I'm sat in a little coffee shop in the middle of Hanoi writing code as part of a little experiment. Could not be happier. Passing along the positive energy. ⚡️
I might stop my spartan server. There's really not anything I'd post there and not here. and cross posting seems redundant for redundancy's sake. plus no user certs.
welp, the drama may have resolved itself. strong opinions all around. i just don't participate.
looks like the BBS drama moved over to Station. I wonder how that platform will react.
A little video update from Dubai. https://youtu.be/WdNrDEDMvhM?si=Dwv1Sk8E4CHNvDuD
Arriving into Hanoi after being in Dubai is, well, different! Happy to finally be here and looking forward to seeing what Hanoian life feels like.
Today's the day. I'm leaving the country. I made a video about what's in my bag: https://youtu.be/qGASvcfcQUg?si=XUgmK_EGhl78ywpP
this is why I'm not in the software development business
I don't know if this exists, but I wonder what an "all-in-one" capsule setup solution. For instance, some script that installs a server, creates a directory structure, and gives you a static site generator for publishing. It would come with a couple of prepackaged CGI scripts for a guestbook, tinylog update, and titan for automated file and gemlog upload.
just discovered SSHFS, which is a way to mount a remote filesystem/direcory over SSH.
I've successfully reimplemented my tinylog updater in Pascal, which I did as an exercise to test my knowledge of writing Pascal. I recently started dabbling in the language and find it kind of cool to be honest. There's a few gotchas like a 255 string character limit if you forget the right compiler option, but it's fun nonetheless.
Belief is a funny thing. Sometimes you need to hold onto one against all further examination simply because it helps you. Belief doesn't always have to correlate with the known facts – some beliefs give you focus and direction, and that's a useful reason to keep them.
I've got a response for my Tinylog entry from 4 Feb on 6 Feb. Thanks Cyberwolf.
The next thing I'd like to mention is the new #geminiprotocol hashtag on Mastodon. The old one was took over by Google and their new Bard-like brand.
I'm observing that the new hashtag is fully working now and people are writing there.
Off on a business trip. I'm not a fan of travel, but it's nice to do something new for a while.
Listening to a new reggae album in Esperanto with my neighbours (probably). No, *you're* weird.
interesting post of the week:
An old man sat next to me in the coffee shop. He ordered a coffee and just sat there drinking it. No newspaper, no phone – just sat there on his own with his thoughts. Honestly, that's goals. I feel bad even writing this now.
A consideration when reaching for GPT to write some code for you: yes it'll save time, but it'll take from you some problem solving. It's that same problem solving – sitting with a challenge and working through potential solutions/trade-offs – that made you a good problem solver.
I installed a misfin server. you can message me at:
gritty@gemini.smallweb.space
I can't believe it's already Friday again. This week I got started on a new new project with a short launch window, and I'm ~40% done. It feels great to be in the zone for 5-6 hours daily! What has been your biggest achievement this week?
Me: perfection is the enemy.
Also me: that loading state causes the button height to increase by 1px, which must be fixed immediately.
Today's blog post was inspired by my hair cut. https://martinrue.com/tune-in
I'm still not in the writing mood. I've catch up several games recently. Yesterday I played in Heroes of Might and Magic II on Linux. I ran the fheroes2 open source engine on the top of my GOG original version copy.
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