Last night I started working on a shell program to help me manage
my gopher hole. I had a few scripts I was using already to do
certain tasks, like phlog or add recipes, and I wanted to
consolodate everything and make it a legit program. Thankfully
mlaine@sdf has been working on a little project of his own called
edmail, which is basically a shell scripted mail client. I checked
out his style on that project and learned a lot.
So then I got a little too motivated and worked on that until it
was almost sunrise. Oops! I did some playing today as well and
it's nearing ready for initial 1.0 release.
Shakuhachi
I also made a connection with Yin Feng on gopher over the
shakuhachi, a Japanese bamboo flute that we both play. It got me
excited as well and I went down a rabbit hole getting Japanese
sheet music to work in gopher. I've reached peak nerd.
Health
I also just hit the 2 week mark back on diet. I'm a long-time keto
dieter but I had a bad slip this past year. I'm back in full swing
now and feeling so great. Gotta keep it up.
Feels
I had a mini-panic for the last few days because feels was broken.
vilmibm fixed it, thankfully. It's the thing I use most here.
IRC
That brings me to IRC. My main IRC home is over on sdf.org
presently. I run Weechat on the meta array over there in a tmux
session so I can easily connect to it from anywhere. The problem
is, they're running Weechat 0.4.1 (yikes!). I've tried requesting
an upgrade but it doesn't look like it's gotten any attention.
So I switched over to Tilde thinking I could just run this place
as my home for IRC. After all, that would allow me to connect
locally to the IRC server here, which I can't do from SDF. Total
win! Oh, and they're running a pretty recent version of Weechat
too! Double-win. Except...
Weechat here is missing some plugins (namely perl) and more
importantly, doesn't have support for SSL connections (requires
gnutls). I went down a rabbit hole trying to compile it myself,
but I ended up in a never-ending chain of dependencies.
I hope vilmibm can fix up this Weechat. This would make the best
place to be home. Until then, I've got multiple IRC systems
running on multiple servers. Meh.