(2025-07-07) A small digest of what happened in the recent weeks
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So, I'm back, not that I got more time but at least somewhat more capacity to
manage it.
First, I had set up an experimental Nex station at nex://piratezeppel.in
address. The address points to the same VPS but the server itself is not
hosted there: it is tunneled to my Orange Pi via SSH reverse port
forwarding. The Zeppelin journal contains more of philosophical musings
stuff, as opposed to this phlog that became more of instructional and
technical sort of writing.
Second, I got myself some more hardware. Not spilling the main secret just
yet, but among this hardware also is a long-awaited upgrade to my slowly
dying first-gen Bose QC35 headset, namely Bose QC Ultra, a Victorinox Super
Tinker multitool knife and a very interesting foldable Bluetooth keyboard
called WiWu FMK-01. Not without its own flaws, but it really is quite
portable, easy to type on and the carrying case also has a smartphone stand
which can be convenient at times. IMO this is a must-have thing for Termux
and whatnot. Not even sure if any further upgrades like Logitech Keys-to-Go
2 would be worth it: the FMK-01 fits into a small manpurse or even a cargo
pants pocket, where the KtG2 definitely won't fit. And if a large backpack
is involved... well, this is where I'd rather take a K6 or K68 with me.
And/or the laptop itself.
Third, I've seriously started considering learning WASM/WASI. To me, it's
like JVM without all the bulk. And the projects like container2wasm only add
some fuel to the fire: imagine a very restrictive operating environment that
can only run WebAssembly instead of native code, and you bring a whole
friggin' emulator on top of that. As much as I despise VM layering, I can
think of several real-world scenarios where this could be really useful. And
yes, it's the lack of any WASM support being the main reason I have finally
given up any hopes of making anything useful on top of Gecko 48 and KaiOS in
general. Other people should manage all that if they want to, I need to go
on.
Fourth, I have met my arch nemesis face-to-face. No, I'm not working for M$
or OpenAI lol, but my new project on the job heavily involves cloud-based
generative AI as the driving tech. Cloud-based LLMs are something I hate the
most (besides Faildows) but my role in this new project allows me to decide
how exactly we're gonna be interacting with them. On top of that, since the
project doesn't have a budget for a dedicated dev, all Python coding also is
going to be mostly handled by myself. So, this is a chance to finally show
them what things may look like when the hindustry doesn't intervene. I'm
willing to take that chance. If I fail, I quit. Just like I said some time
ago.
