It's Tuesday, February 2nd, two-thousand twenty two. That only happens once every... well, ever.

What's Zach been up to?

Gemini capsule

On this here site (gemini.zachdecook.com), I added a new section:

Recipes!

Yeah, I'm starting to share the reasons why they call me "DeCook". It's a subscribable page, so feel free to subscribe to it using your favorite software (e.g. zachwalk).

Software Development

This month, I worked with the library scalable-font2, attempting to make a cool icon pack for use in sxmo. Scalable-font2 allows vector and bitmap font layers to be used together in a font glyph, which could make precise design easier. There's more to do here though, as the renderer is not very mature.

I also looked into adding touch support to foot (the terminal emulator). This is what I'm currently procrastinating 😛.

SXMO saw another release, and a number of my patches has been merged in since that. Importantly, some more thought has been given toward stability and release frequency, so it'll be interesting to see how this works out in the future.

Self-hosting/freedom

My XMPP server has three active users (of three total). Last month I had a certificate expiration, but that just caused a blip in uptime. It's annoying that that uses the Cert Authority. Given how centralized systems can arbitrarily deny access, (or impersonate you), it's not great, but it's maybe the best we have for P2P texting.

Fin

More stuff may or may not be found here in the future 😣🥱.

Much love,

-Zach "earboxer" DeCook