We're having a snowy and cold March here in Quebec, but the clouds
broke today and it was sunny and -8. It turned out to be a perfect
day for some cross-country skiing - my wife and I got in 8km this
afternoon. The conditions were phenomenal, with minimal wind, nice,
cold snow (the kind that makes that satisfying hard scrape as your
skis travel over it) and no ice to speak of.

Later, I spent some time getting a mirror up of my phlog on
solderpunk's gopher server circumlunar.space [0][1]. It's a lot of
fun working in a restricted environment like that again - with 128MB
of RAM and now four users, you really need to be conscious of what
tools you use. As solderpunk notes ([2]), I ditched Emacs when I saw
its memory usage (130MB VSS and 36MB RSS), and opted for mg, a tiny
Emacs-like editor that keeps my keybinding muscle-memory intact. I
really like the idea of gopher-only hosting. It fits in well in such
an environment.

[0] gopher://circumlunar.space/0/~solderpunk/phlog/circumlunar-space.txt
[1] gopher://circumlunar.space/1/~slugmax
[2] gopher://circumlunar.space/0/~solderpunk/phlog/on-tiny-servers.txt

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