21 march 2026
I've been trying out Emacs lately. I'm somewhere on the fence about it. The fact that it is actually an operating system I find...endearing? It's a weird thing to feel over a system of applications pulled together to create this one cohesive whole. On the other hand, it's a whole new way of learning how to interact with something that's primarily keyboard driven.
I grabbed DOOM Emacs, a configuration starter kit/framework that says to ease the learning curve of Emacs. And it does work as advertised but I'm not "fluent" enough to use Emacs vanilla. At least I learned enough to get rec-mode installed and edit my tarot journal, that I've stored as a recfile.
That's another thing I've been trying out: recutils. I found out about it through ~dozen's webpage, something about tarot.rec. I thought the concept of recutils was interesting and there are some potential project ideas that popped in my head with it. It seemed appropriate to try it out with a tarot (learning) journal. I draw a card about once a day, learn about it, and my take on how it could guide what's happening in my life.
So far, I've learned the Swords suit is rather dark and aggressive. Makes sense, it is a weapon. But I also realize the one round of shuffling I did may just not be enough!
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19 march 2026
I got an email from Vercel earlier today pointing out changes to their ToS and privacy policy. Surprise, surprise, they're going to start using their users' data to train their agentic models. I will say, it's nice of them to give us a way to opt-out, but Hobby plans are default to opt-in while Pro plans are opt-out by default.
Look, I get it, Hobby plan users are using their services for free. I can't hate Vercel for wanting to squeeze some value out of people who aren't paying but by stealing their code to train their models, I can't in my right mind respect them or even stay with them anymore. I've deleted all my projects, and my account from them. It wasn't a difficult decision, though. I stopped using Vercel years ago. I held onto it in case Netlify didn't work out.
Yes, it's good that they let us know ahead of time, and yes, it's nice they gave us the option to opt out anyway. I think I've reached a point where I realized I'm going to have to check my settings to make sure no one else tried to sneak in AI training opt-in into my account. I don't think I like any one company enough to be okay with them training off of my data, whatever form that data takes.
It doesn't help that I'm lazy x_x and having to get rid of stuff from places I had been for a long time feels kind of bad, not gonna lie.
I won't lie, I'm also on the fence about using AI. I think I'm largely okay with people using it locally, rather than relying on companies. I don't like giving these parasitic companies justification to build out their AI datacenters like they will literally die if they don't.
So, yeah. Those are my thoughts on it so far. I think AI can be useful but where we are right now as a people, we're just not ready. It seems the majority of us don't have the self-control to do much beyond chasing the next big money-maker. I feel bad for the academics that worked on projects that brought AI where it is now. I doubt they wanted it to be corrupted this way.
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18 march 2026
I figured out how to "host" a bare repo of my project on tilde.town. Don't worry, it's not the only copy I have of the bare repo :P
I know I could request a gitea account, but I feel like I should do that if I'm working on something for the town. Plus, I want to try using git without a forge, especially for projects that are in their research/discovery phase. All in all, I'm happy to have the space here to play around like that :)
I might try and make the bare repo available through my pages here, for the fun of it, when I have projects that I want to make public!
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17 march 2026
I started working on yet another static site generator. Initially, I wanted one that can output both HTML and gemtext. But as I thought about it more, the more I realize I actually want to make a "protocol agnostic" generator. One that isn't tethered to just making HTML or just gemtext, or only both. I want it to have the flexibility in case another protocol grabs my interest.
So yeah, started work on it. Or rather, I started getting a better feel for the libraries I'm using to power this thing. It doesn't help that I've felt out of practice with Rust. I had other projects I wanted to work on but I couldn't help but feel like I'm wasting time. Especially since I'm not sure I would use it myself these days. This generator, however, I know I'll use. Maybe others will want to use it too.
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15 march 2026
Feeling some strong sense of impostor syndrome after looking through what some of the townies are like. Probably gonna chill out on staying in touch for a bit, but I'll still be poking about in my home directory as I slowly figure out how I want to set up my webpage and gemini capsule in here.
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13 march 2026
Having one of those annoying days where it feels like I have a lot I want and need to do but I don't have enough time. I would like for my brain to stop tricking me into some anxiety spiral, thanks.
Ignore this, testing some ttbp html changes.
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12 march 2026
It started with a desire to not hog a good chunk of the forum's space with things that may not matter to anyone else but me. So I put it into my public_html and next thing I know, I'm trying to cook up a half-decent CSS so it's not a pain to read the text!
I forgot how rewarding it is to write CSS by hand. I haven't done the whole "design a webpage from scratch" in a while. Been out of the webdev game for a few years.
It's nice, even though it might not be as visually exuberant as some of my fellow townies or their preferences xD
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06 march 2026
A game on my steam wishlist since 2023 came out of Early Access today, "Desynced." I don't know how long they've had a demo for but I'm finally trying it out. Looks like I got another game to add to my library, for slightly more discount because it's bundled with a game I already have, yay!
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05 march 2026
I have a confession to make. I've signed up for an account here more than a year ago. I think it took more than a month to get the actual account and I suppose my interest waned with that time. I didn't want to lose the opportunity to check this pubnix out so I accepted the invite anyway.
Regardless, here I am, exploring the space and being nosey :P I do want to start a gemini capsule here too and I do hope I can run CGI scripts within that protocol. Not a big deal if it doesn't, I like that #tildetown is pretty lively!
Aww, no CGI scripts for my gemini capsule...oh well! I might still want to do something with this space anyway!
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