# nick = Rob
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2022-01-21T14:11:41-06:00 This is my first official cross-post to twtxt using my offline microblog script. Hello, world!
2022-01-21T22:21:23-06:00 I need to stop tinkering with this script so much. It already does what I need it to do.
2022-01-25T09:36:56-06:00 I got a Kobo Clara HD in the mail yesterday, but the screen was cracked right out of the box. Time to ship it back and get a replacement.
2022-01-31T07:49:00-06:00 Time for my first visit to the dentist in well over half a decade. I really need to be better about getting these things on my calendar.
2022-02-01T09:31:04-06:00 Poor night of sleep, woke up late, and spilled a full cup of milk in my car. I hope that's the last of the unfortunate events today!
2022-02-06T12:53:07-06:00 I almost always get 90 or 91 on Blastix Riotz EXH. 94 is absolutely unheard of for me.
2022-02-08T10:24:06-06:00 I've temporarily removed Urbit as a method of contact. My ship needs to be breached and I don't want to spend the ETH to do it right now.
2022-02-10T20:40:37-06:00 Capsule activity will be slow over this week and the next. I'm frantically trying to re-up my AWS certs before they expire in two weeks.
2022-02-11T18:51:03-06:00 Boot drive failed on the server that hosts my Gemini capsule's headless repo. Now there will officially be no updates until it's fixed!
2022-02-13T22:17:35-06:00 Everything SHOULD be straightened out with the twtxt file and regular access to the capsule now. This post should be visible!
2022-02-15T15:46:57-06:00 Gemini seems like a great community to revive the concept of the pen pal. Would anyone be interested in doing that?
2022-02-21T14:18:33-06:00 I passed my AWS Solutions Architect Associate recert exam!
2022-02-23T09:15:11-06:00 "IRS.gov is now using ID.me to log in!" Awesome, the credetials for US taxpayers are passing through a registrar located in Montenegro.
2022-02-25T07:19:38-06:00 Google no longer allows in-app donations that don't go through Google Play. https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/3768
2022-02-28T19:49:51-06:00 I just found out that my posts are visible on twtxt.net. I don't have an account there, so I apologize if I don't see a reply there!
2022-03-03T13:55:48-06:00 Turkish Airlines 981 crashed outside Paris 48 years ago today, the first of 4 high-profile crashes that killed the reputation of the DC-10.
2022-03-04T07:41:23-06:00 The An-225 Mriya, the world's largest aircraft, has been destroyed. https://www.airlinerwatch.com/2022/02/has-worlds-most-iconic-aircraft-225.html
2022-03-04T11:02:54-06:00 @prologic@https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt The news first broke several days ago, but I didn't see photo confirmation until today. I might have just been late :P
2022-03-04T11:11:43-06:00 I swear I will figure out how to twtxt properly one day
2022-03-04T13:50:53-06:00 Modern society compels us to avoid uncomfortable introspection, but current events repeatedly show us how necessary that introspection is.
2022-03-07T07:04:35-06:00 Off to my first health check-up in 3 1/2 years. I'm almost 40 pounds lighter than I was back then, so I hope this goes well.
2022-03-07T19:23:18-06:00 It's a breath of fresh air to see very small YouTube channels that post unscripted videos and actually have interesting things to say.
2022-03-09T20:10:02-06:00 I find myself increasingly disinterested in "deconstruction", in every context.
2022-03-09T21:01:59-06:00 @prologic@twtxt.net The immediate context was deconstructed movie characters, but I find I'm also tiring of deconstructed foods, deconstructed philosophy, deconstructed art, etc.
2022-03-12T00:23:21-06:00 LibreELEC dropped the RPi1 in August. There's so little software left for the thing. All the more reason to devote mine to Gemini, I guess.
2022-03-15T15:32:48-05:00 The rise of tags on online articles saying how many minutes it takes to read them says, to me, a lot about our breakneck-speed culture.
2022-04-01T18:02:20-05:00 If the only thing you write in your changelog is "Fixes and improvements", why bother with a changelog at all?
2022-04-18T11:20:49-05:00 I've noticed a gradient of skepticism about climate change, ranging from outright contradiction that it exists to debates about the specific measures needed to reverse acknowledged warming trends. Using the general term "climate change denial" to describe that entire gradient, and thus treating all forms of skepticism as equally ignorant, seems counterproductive to me.
2022-04-26T16:10:50-05:00 I don't use social media anymore, mostly for privacy reasons, but one of the things I miss about it is being able to interact directly with creators I enjoy.
2022-04-30T20:58:36-05:00 I was hoping to relax with some friends at a bar tonight, only to find that bars are even less my scene than they were seven years ago. Lesson learned.
2022-05-03T13:50:00-05:00 The Fusion arcade stick for Switch is pretty good, though probably not worth the MSRP of $130 USD. I'd give it a solid 8 out of 10.
2022-05-04T14:27:05-05:00 Work just sent out a communication about drawing up 5 year plans. I don't have to start referring to my coworkers as "comrade", do I?
2022-05-06T12:41:54-05:00 I might be opening a big can of worms with this question, but what is the utility of Spartan over Gopher?
2022-05-10T11:36:49-05:00 There are some Gemini feeds that Antenna is failing to connect to, and it looks like it's clogging up the log pretty badly. I hope it's not putting too much strain on the server.
2022-05-12T16:36:01-05:00 This week I suddenly started receiving messages from at least three different e-mail lists--lists from which I'd previously unsubscribed and have not interacted with since. Two of them have unsubscribe links that tell me I'm already unsusbcribed. Is this happening to anyone else?
2022-05-22T20:28:57-05:00 My Gemini log posts have been getting very long recently.
2022-05-30T00:14:52-05:00 I'm reminded today that books are still a great form of entertainment. Secondhand books in particular are always plentiful and cheap--a big plus in times of supply chain squeezes and rampant inflation.
2022-06-25T14:33:37-05:00 The only thing I'll say about Roe v. Wade is this. Overturning the decision does not make abortions illegal, it establishes that the legality of abortions is not within the purview of the Federal government--a stance that also blocks Republicans from enacting a federal-level abortion ban.
2022-06-29T09:01:28-05:00 Random thought: I think Freddie Mercury looked better with short hair than with long hair.
2022-07-05T08:23:26-05:00 All the scripts on my Gemini capsule (except chess) have now been rewritten using Python and storing data in a SQLite database. This is the first time I've ever worked with database in a "production" environment, and I'm inordinately excited.
2022-07-05T09:37:03-05:00 Summing the first n odd positive integers yields n^2. For twisty puzzle enthusiasts, an interesting consequence of this is that a Pyraminx has the same number of stickers per face as a Rubik's Cube, a Master Pyraminx has the same number of stickers per face as a Rubik's Master Cube, and so on.
2022-07-08T06:16:26-05:00 I'm excited for the travel I'm going to be doing over the next few days, but the downside is that I'm not going to have much time to sleep.
2022-07-09T15:15:07-05:00 I might be in the minority on this, but given what small Web projects like Gemini aim to achieve, I don't like the idea of establishing standards for Gemini capsules purely for the purpose of aiding automation.
2022-07-10T11:58:28-05:00 When I'm flying in a plane and I look out the window down at the ground, I wonder if anyone on the ground is looking back up at me.
2022-07-16T14:43:04-04:00 The problem I have with the vast majority of social movements, left or right, is that they often lead to projection instead of introspection. Instead of person A trying to decide how person B can treat person C better, person A should try to decide how person A can treat person C better.
2022-07-28T09:56:40-05:00 It suddenly occurred to me that I've become _that_ guy: the guy who rents a car with a fancy touchscreen center console and immediately goes to the "About" page in the console settings to look at the open source licenses.
2022-08-02T18:14:09-05:00 Having no political party affiliation in a state with closed primaries means I often get very short ballots. Today's had only two questions.
2022-08-15T08:48:27-05:00 The e-mails are now going out telling people that I'm leaving the company next week. It's feeling more and more real every day.
2022-08-23T09:10:34-05:00 I was reminded today that the first season of Regular Show aired in autumn of 2010. That's hard for me to believe. I feel like the show started way later than that, around early 2012.
2022-08-26T09:29:37-05:00 In about four months' time, if the replacement doesn't ship from IndieGoGo before then, I will have been using my current smartphone for five years.
2022-09-01T17:50:36-05:00 Today's "Where in the World" puzzle was tough. gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
2022-09-20T14:41:05-05:00 After paying no attention to my twtxt file for a while, I finally learned today how to reply to someone properly. Now I need to start actually following other people...
2022-09-22T11:36:47-04:00 Port 1965 is blocked on the park WiFi at Walt Disney World, so no Gemini for me.
2022-10-03T15:17:17-05:00 The Cosmic Voyage motd is honestly one of the coolest terminal experiences I've ever had, and it's almost entirely generic information.
2022-10-05T08:16:41-05:00 Nabisco claims that Halloween Oreos taste the same as regular Oreos, but they definitely don't. They taste better to me for some reason.
2022-10-05T21:36:16-05:00 Happy 5th birthday, A Hat In Time!
2022-10-23T13:30:00-05:00 There's only one major regret I have about switching from Windows to Linux for my personal computers, and that regret is that I no longer have Winamp.
2022-11-07T07:25:26-06:00 While I'm all for people moving away from platforms like Twitter and embracing more freedom- and privacy-centric systems such as Mastodon, I do worry that many of them might be doing it purely for ideological reasons and may have no interest in maintaining the respectful atmosphere Mastodon is well-known for.
2022-12-23T09:04:25-06:00 It feels like every time I come across a Gemini capsule I find interesting, the owner suddenly stops posting and leaves the protocol. Maybe that's a lesson for me: if I like their content, reach out to them and let them know.
2022-12-27T21:05:47-06:00 I bought my Galaxy Note 8 five years go today. This is by far the most use I've gotten out of one smartphone!
2023-01-28T13:21:54-06:00 It's a nice feeling to finally clear out all the old "Syncing..." messages and global state discrepancies from my Syncthing nodes. The errors were all cosmetic--the files were syncing successfully--but they were annoying to look at every day.
2023-02-23T23:34:27-06:00 I accidentally wiped out my bookmarks file this afternoon. Syncthing propagated the change, and I was forced to restore from an old partial backup. Lesson learned: versioning is useful.
2023-04-26T12:13:01-05:00 "View", "watch", "look" and "see" are roughly synonymous, but "overview", "overwatch", "overlook" and "oversee" are not.
2023-05-09T07:16:03-05:00 My smartphone is receiving an upgrade to Android 13, less than one month after receiving an upgrade to Android 12. Most bizarre.
2023-05-30T13:13:43-05:00 I don't really like the term "gatekeeping", especially when it's used to describe the general concept of a barrier to entry. The term "gatekeeping" implies to me a "gatekeeper"--a person A who is trying to control if person B can interact with person C. It implies active discrimination, perhaps even bigotry, when in reality the barrier might be a passive issue such as scarcity or inherent complexity. "Gatekeeping" seems an intentionally- and needlessly-charged term.
2023-06-09T11:26:16-05:00 Make computers inconvenient again.
2023-06-20T09:58:43-05:00 Happy 4th birthday, Gemini protocol!
2023-07-06T11:34:08-05:00 There's all this talk and speculation about Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, Minds and so on. Meanwhile twtxt sits there, forever free and open.
2023-08-21T10:35:08-05:00 I saw a report today that the number of wrong-way driving incidents in the UK has risen by 13% in the last year. As an American who drove in England for the first time this May, I'd like to officially apologize for my contribution to 12 of those 13 percentage points.
2023-10-06T19:36:39-05:00 I wish the National Park music from Pokemon Gold and Silver had gotten its own full-length arrangement. It's one of the best tunes in the game.
2023-10-19T16:27:21-05:00 Finally getting around to cleaning up and updating my todo.txt file. Maybe I should put a task in there to remind me to check it.
2023-11-26T19:53:49-06:00 A type of assumption that really grinds my gears: when someone expects a certain event will happen, and other people immediately assume that means the person wants the event to happen. Thinking something will happen and wanting it to happen are two very different things.
2023-12-06T20:47:05-06:00 Why does the word "fridge" have the letter D in it when the word "refrigerator" does not?
2024-01-01T00:47:36-06:00 Happy 2024, twtxt community!
2024-02-02T17:47:24-06:00 The Syncthing instance on my poor RPi 1B has over 400 thousand files in its local state, totaling about 275 GB.
2024-02-19T23:38:26-06:00 It's been 10 years since the movie adaptation of Big Hero 6 was released and 3 years since the TV spinoff ended. And I'm still annoyed that Disney didn't take the opportunity to turn the show into Bill Nye the Science Guy with crimefighting: highlighting a real scientific concept in each episode and using it to stop the villain of the hour.
2024-02-27T22:22:15-06:00 For the first time in months, I've completely caught up on all the tasks in my todo.txt file that were either due today or overdue. It's such a good feeling.
2024-03-26T07:42:43-05:00 It really frustrates me when the order of a program's arguments matters, but the program doesn't tell me that--it just silently ignores the arguments it deems to be in the "wrong" place.
2024-04-29T08:10:12-05:00 It's remarkable how much proprietary software one can avoid using if one simply eschews GUIs as much as possible.
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