Well, it's been a while I guess. I've been busy!

==> Project statuses:

* Game engine:

 Got  skinning mostly working,  animated skinned meshes work so long
 as the bone hierarchy is flat.  Have to  work out some issues  when
 bones are parented to one another.

* Turbogopher:

 Turbogopher can now download files!!!  Also  did some small unicode
 translation improvements.

* New projects:

 gophersphered : a gopher server i'm writing in Ada
   - https://tildegit.org/jns/gophersphered

 neovision: a turbovision-inspired c++ library
   - https://tildegit.org/jns/pubnix/src/branch/master/lib/neovision

The  latter  of  which,  is part  of  a  set of pubnix  utilities I'm
slowly writing  for a pubnix project i'm working on way down the road
.. Yes yes,  I know,  I've  got way  too much in the pipeline all at
once - it's a disease - whatever - I'm having fun! :)

==> Meeanwhile...:

This week I'm preparing for VCFMW. This is the first time I'm hosting
a table rather than spectating, so I took the week off to prepare all
the things I'm hoping to display. Even though I took a week off work,
I still feel like I'm racing against the clock.  It did encourage  me
to get  a PCB printed for the nuclear  rs422 keyboard and make it all
nice and proper.  And the kind folks at nuclearcompanion.com gave  me
permission to use some of the photo's from one of their  articles  to
print a  one-off poster for  the event.   I've uploaded the kicad pcb
layout  and  schematic on to tildegit along with some other technical
details, pictures, and hardware stuffffff... should any one else have
one of these, and want to get it working:
 - https://tildegit.org/jns/nukeKeyboard

==> Baud baby had a baby:

I  wanted  to  officially  congratulate  cat from baud.baby on having
created a tiny human.  I  am  way  way  late to the party, but that's
because I was a little bit sad and worried  that  we'd have lost him!
hahaha - but thankfully he's still around. Whew!  But I'm sure  he'll
have his hands full.


Aanyway, that's it for this post - I just wanted to break the silence
and give a quick update. Maybe I'll see some of you at vcfmw!   -Cya!

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(if you see a blinking cursor above, you have a pretty awesome gopher
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