Right now I'm trying to rest by staying in a countryside. Here I'm hiking, touching the grass, breathing deeply, drink teas. Yes, I'm still browsing Inet sporadically, but that volume of incomping info doesn't make me nervous and my brain is itching just a little. I feel strong need to experience such digital detox from time to time.
Just configured my Emacs to show small web - yep, just installed Elpher. Earlier I just used HTTP proxies but now I decided to dive to the bottom! It is pretty pleasant so far. Now I'm thinking about deploying of small NEX server because it is even more simplistic :P
Also, I'm circling around the TiddlyWiki (again, not for the first time). Started reading the "Grok TiddlyWiki", going well. Yesterday watched "Experience TiddlyWiki Fluency: Creating a Reading List" - such a show, very inspirational, and... SmallTalk'esque!
Started playing with the Algernon server. It is very, VERY opinionated. But it looks like I could have a lot of fun using this cute monster!
Algernon serves micro-apps with storage-backed state and it resonates with my own "smol" CGI-server. Now I feel that I need to host Algernon on my dokku and implement a couple of small web apps with it. The slight tension I'm experiencing right now because of its user/permission subsystem. I want to have it granular enough to protect only some apps, yet the whole subsystem is still too cryptic to me :P
Recently I've started to play with the GNU Hyperbole and it looks way less outlandish now that it felt earlier! It still conflicts with some stuff I use but I feel that I'd need not much filing to make it fitting. Definitely need to add it to my main Emacs setup for the sake of HyWiki at least. Then I'd have three worlds in one: Org+Roam, eev and Hyperbole - such a chimera :)
Recently I hosted the textpod instance on my own mini-cloud. I really like the project because it is a nice piece of smol software at least from the conceptual side. Textpod was made using pretty recent web stack for Rust so the project is a bit obese if we talk about dependencies, but it also quite modest for a rust-powered web app :)
Anyway, I'm planning to use the textpod as an inbox and later hoard useful stuff into my Org Roam, and for that particular puprose it suits perfectly!
Let's try and see how it will go. I haven't (yet?) a habit to write regularly. Maybe it is what it is because of the traction between the "ink" and the screen. I was always more tend to setup the whole blogging process than to write stuff.
Tech things always were more attractive to me than the content. I just remembered my first "text editing environment" within my homemade "OS" that I built in GW-BASIC. It was a system that store the whole screen (in a text-mode) to the tape cassette. That saved page I was able do load later and continue to edit. Back then I wanted to write a fictional novel but I wrote just a couple of pages, because the process of writing wasn't that appealing itself :)
The same story happened with my game engine from the university days. I made the engine, proved that it is capable to run pretty complex stuff with inventory and conditional jumps between scenes. And then I stopped. In the single actual game I made were only five scenes or so :)
Now I have a Telegram channel and I'm posting stuff there from time to time. Long pauses are happening but thankfully they are rare! Social networks I keep at the distance. Trying to do some Mastodon. Maybe here I'll write short texts in English just to practice (but who will read them to provide any feedback?). At least, it is interesting for me to see how if works from the technical side: Gopher, HTML, those things :)