2020-08-12 - Long Time Who Dis?
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Hey gophernators!

Been a  little while since I  posted here, there are  three genuine
reasons:

- Summer
- Side Projects
- Factorio

I've been here at home, still avoiding the world. The weather's not
been wonderful this  year, but its been good enough  to spend a lot
of time  sitting in  my garden  reading. I've been  doing a  lot of
that, and have managed to finish 10 novels since June. I guess what
I needed to get out of my  non-reading rut was just to turn off the
world, and, to  a large extent, stop giving a  shit about the whole
dumpster fire of the globe. I've  not even been much on mastodon or
twitter  in the  period.  Hey,  its not  like  business is  exaclty
booming.

Pretty much because I've been reading  so much, I developed an itch
that  I needed  to  scratch  - tracking  my  reading properly,  and
incorporating my little capsule reviews  into the same system as my
tracking one. I dusted off some  of my cobwebs, and I wrangled what
i think is a succesful system out  of it. In this I was inspired by
what I  managed to do  in gopher (under  Reading in my  main gopher
menu) - just focusing on the content, as opposed to fripperies.

While I  like the freedom  of plaintext, there  was so much  more I
could  achieve  in  html,  just  with a  little  use  of  css.  I'd
appreciate any comments on the site, which can be seen at:

https://books.dgold.eu

I also decided to get my gopher content into the wider winds of the
Dark Web. If you visit my site, dgold.eu, using tor, you should get
offered my phlog posts over onion.

Finally, and probably  in no way at all responsible  for my absence
from the online world, I purchased Factorio. When my downtime can't
be outdoors  or I can't  read for  random reasons, I'm  playing the
game. I  keep tweaking, I  keep expanding,  I keep making  more mad
projects to expand my glorious automated empire.

I've even  drafted (but not finished)  a deconstructionist analysis
of the themes of the game. Hopefully, more of that anon.

Anyway, that's  been me, I've been  catching up on the  'verse over
the  last few  days (using  the awesome  Kristall browser)  and I'm
delighted to see so many wonderful things from so many people.

Until next time

dgold