Another long period away from gopher has passed me by. It
has mostly been a long period away from lots of things. I
am no longer working, having quit my job to stay home with
my daughter (which I wrote about on my colorfield.space
phlog awhile back). That has proven to be quite exhausting.
I get a few hours a day to myself and usually have to spend
them quietly. She has had such trouble sleeping :( We have
also been having work done on the house and just about
fired the guy we were working with for our bathroom redo.
His guys drilled into the same waterline twice and put
screws through the bottom of the second floor and they
poke through into the first floor's ceiling. Ugh. It has
been crappy having people inside our house making noise
all the time. It isnt going to end soon either: we have
some electrical work coming up as well as rebuilding our
decks. At least most of that is outside.
I am reading 2010, the sequel to 2001, right now. I had
been on a big Arthur C Clarke kick last year and I am
glad to have returned to his writing. I did not expect
to like 2010 for some reason, but have really been
enjoying it.
I have managed to work on some personal software since
leaving work. most of it coded late at night for fun:
- a project management board for the terminal
- a terminal spreadsheet using forth-like expressions
- an editable input library
- a version of the board game 'fanorona' with cpu player
The editable input lib is in golang and is used in all
three of the other programs. It allows for arrowing
around, home, end, etc. It does not provide history or
completion, which are not needed for my purposes, but
does allow the buffer to be pre-filled with content (in
the form of a string being passed in). It was coded in
a few hundred lines of golang, so is pretty slim all in
all... but is likely more usable for my own programs
than for other people since I tend to need to do minor
tweaking each time I use it. But I dont import it and
instead just copy the code into the current project
since it is just one file with no dependencies anyway.
I also have spent a TON of time writing documentation
for many of my programs. I did so via gemtext and then
covnerted to html and added a stylesheet. I am really
happy with the result. For any that are interested in
that approach or in any of the above mentioned software
you can visit my new website (generated from gemtext
via a quick awk script I wrote up):
https://sloum.colorfield.space
It is also available over http, if you prefer.
I have had less time that I would like to actually
read things in gopherspace or gemini, so I am not
as up to date with y'all as I used to be. I hope
everyone, in gopehrspace in particular, is doing
well. My wife and I scheduled our first doses of
the moderna vaccine for next friday, so hopefully
that will go well and give us a little bit of a
chance to relax things a little (though we will
still be wearing masks, we will be happy to get to
see our also vaccinated parents with less worry).
