I haven’t done one of these kinds of things since I had a LiveJournal. Here goes.

Have you ever proposed a blog quiz, or sneezed while riding a unicycle?

Not to my knowledge.

Sweet or savory?

Generally sweet.

What are three legacy consumer tech devices you’d love to see brought back into the mainstream?

Ehhhh, I don’t know. I am not much one for nostalgia, or forming memories that last more than a few years. I’m racking my brain but I just don’t. If LLM nonsense continues to infiltrate then I’ll have plenty to say?

Do you have a lucky number, colour, or day of the week?

11, all of them, none of them.

Free space

Filesystem     512-blocks       Used  Available Capacity  iused       ifree %iused  Mounted on
…
/dev/disk3s5   7805330720 3818537728 3229630184    55%  6905631 16148150920    0%   /System/Volumes/Data

What’s something you genuinely tried giving a go, but never grokked?

About 15 years ago I made my entire personality “if I try something and I don’t like it, I will try harder” when my job entailed interop with SharePoint. So far so good, I think.

Do you have a favourite virtualisation tech?

I’m playing a lot with VZ right now (literally right now) and it’s pretty nice. More broadly, though, I have to hand it to QEMU. It is so complete. It is so complete. User-space emulation is particularly magic. It’s also the only one I have commits in (afaik).

What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever planted?

Seeds of doubt.

What’s your favourite instrumental song? Or if you don’t have one, what’s your least favourite instrumental song? If you don’t have one, what’s your favourite instrumental song?

I couldn’t possibly name one. Also, what counts as instrumental? Here are two I’m especially fond of.

• fingerspit — The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood Original Soundtrack — X - The Sister
• Lena Raine — Harmony: The Fall of Reverie (Original Game Soundtrack) — The Augural

Have you lied in any of these questions?

The lioness does not concern herself with justifications.

Not been in touch in many years — lost in the friendship group rift after a breakup — but we were once close, and would stretch time and plans to see each other when we’d be on the same continent.

In the imaginal, we were both at some kind of chill gathering, a quiet house party, and it was wrapping up. It’d be the last time I’d see them before they were due to fly out, and we had a corner of the room to ourselves.

I remember gently resting my head against their chest, and then — looking into each other’s eyes — very tenderly and gently sharing affirmations of our mutual love.

Missed you.

no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here… nothing valued is here. What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us.

A few weeks (months?) ago I thought it’d be neat to have a little pop-up window visualising the output of jj, so I could look at the changelog graph change in real-time as I did commands, rather than checking Tl (jj log) repeatedly.

En route, I really wanted to know what song was playing on my Inkplate, so I hastily threw together suena and a script for calling it over the network.

As I started learning how to use jj-lib, I decided it was finally time I would not just push it to GitHub, but make my own. nóssa is very much a work-in-progress, but it’s functional (and backed up) enough that I can just keep everything there now. Along the way I learned to produce commit graphs the same way jj does, and get used to git2-rs, which has been neat.

While pushing LiveViews a little too hard, I found I needed another Elixir/Phoenix project to work on, since nóssa’s a first-of-the-kind for me and I needed to learn faster and spread the mistakes out a little. Redoing my blog seemed like a good opportunity. I’ve been putting off posting more until I finally got asset management done, but then I was finding the compile/Nix-realisation-time on my VPS prohibitive, so now I have a really big homelab server (mothdust!) for the first time in forever.

Now I’m thinking I’ll want a caching reverse proxy that sits on a very small VPS, so that if mothdust goes down, GET requests can still work. And maybe I can make it do the upstream requests over the Erlang network instead of just being a dumb client. Among other things, this avoids having to bypass Anubis or similar things another way, and could also e.g. fetch a list of known pages to “pre-render” the site into cache, purge the cache automatically on code updates and content edits, etc.? I’m particularly trying to have fun with my website, because why not? It’s a part of me.

my dreams press in on me

acumulando

un till i more often reminisce of them than of this

they bubble to the top, and over