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2023-02-21T20:29:05Z	****
Uh oh... I just learned about [#twtxt](https://mastodon.social/tags/twtxt), which means I will be playing around with the concept soon :P [#smolnet](https://mastodon.social/tags/smolnet) [#smallnet](https://mastodon.social/tags/smallnet) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/109904615563884149)
2023-02-21T16:02:58Z	****
And for those using the tor network, \`finger vigreyd6wrsvudjto7ccmt45avabdstveitqej2f4or75sjxkrijv3qd.onion\` or \`finger vi@vigreyd6wrsvudjto7ccmt45avabdstveitqej2f4or75sjxkrijv3qd.onion\` works the same :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/109903569093436811)
2023-02-21T16:01:30Z	****
Finger support has been successfully added to Bergelmir! For anyone with a finger client, you can do \`finger vigrey.com\` or \`finger vi@vigrey.com\` to get information that I share :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/109903563330129337)
2023-02-20T18:05:30Z	****
I should have full finger protocol (IETF RFC 742) support working in Bergelmir sometime within the next day, although it'll probably take a bit of testing before I push the code changes ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/109898388615659160)
2023-02-19T07:37:38Z	****
I don't know if I am interpreting these songs differently than others, but I get an incredibly similar vibe from Radiohead's "No Surprises" and the Talking Heads' "Once in a Lifetime" in terms of setting and theming ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/109890257420417503)
2023-02-18T15:41:22Z	****
Dang it... "Tango: Maureen" is stuck in my head now... At least it's a catchy song ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/109886497257715936)
2023-02-22T14:47:09Z	****
Finally at the point where I don't type the bird site name into my browser instinctually, so I can finally stop having it blocked in my /etc/hosts file. Muscle memory habits are a pain in the butt to break. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/109908933318335803)
2023-02-22T16:03:45Z	****
test post ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/109909234489023229)
2023-02-23T21:27:51Z	****
After shoveling a few tons of snow today (that's not an exaggeration) by hand, I'm honestly kind of surprised how quickly 1 ton of snow can be moved via snow shovel. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/109916171231650932)
2023-02-24T10:52:00Z	****
Next thing I'm working on for Bergelmir is a [#twtxt](https://mastodon.social/tags/twtxt) feed parser and displayer that works for an http site, gopher site, and gemini site. This will take a while, as I would prefer not to use a third party library, so I finally need to figure out how to make a lexer to get markdown support working.

This is what I wanted out of the Bergelmir project's development, being stuck learning things that I did not know before :) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/109919333297581375)
2023-02-24T11:06:10Z	****
The fact that the DeepMind youtube account still doesn't have a checkmark on youtube even though it's owned by Alphabet (Google) is incredibly strange to me. I enjoyed the heck out of the AlphaGo documentary, but I originally thought it was going to be a bait and switch video because the DeepMind channel didn't have a checkmark on Youtube like I expected it would have if it was the real channel. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/109919388974820110)
2023-03-03T13:20:03Z	****
I don't know about you, but I want to see an ANSI art vtuber, as in their vtuber avatar/persona is ANSI art on a terminal. Preferably something that looks like ANSI art rather than looking automatically generated like one of those "video to ASCII" converter libraries. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/109959551590883782)
2023-03-04T09:18:25Z	****
I suspect at least one of you will have a particular "you're familiar..." response to the string "dQw4w9WgXcQ" without having to look it up. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/109964263751878713)
2023-03-04T09:21:53Z	****
Not gonna lie... have been a bit disappointed in how few pictures of cats I have seen on quite a few [#caturday](https://mastodon.social/tags/caturday) s in a row.

Please let my retinas enjoy the existence of your kitties! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/109964277389126193)
2023-03-11T04:54:20Z	****
Ides of March in the Gregorian calendar is coming up soon (March 15th). Get ready for me to "well actually..." about it on that day :) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110002861564110753)
2023-03-11T05:23:32Z	****
Note to self (that I don't care is seen by others). DiggieDog does not like to close gopher connections to my gopherhole after data is transmitted and the end of transmission indicator is sent to DiggieDog. Connection only closes after the full 30 second TCP timeout happens. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110002976353325349)
2023-03-11T06:28:29Z	****
Due to the confusion I have about what might be causing this, I would really like to work with some people who appreciate the gopher protocol to help me figure out why my server keeps only closing the gopher server after 30 seconds when I use a mobile data network. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110003231756390641)
2023-03-14T17:03:03Z	****
Happy Pi Day everyone!

To all the people complaining about the US date system, "Those among you in Countries who use ISO 8601, cast the first stone." :) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110022713899596648)
2023-03-14T21:34:08Z	****
BOGOSORT AS A TEXT EDITOR! :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110023779845704995)
2023-03-15T00:55:52Z	****
Finally got a blog post written this year. It is titled "Happy Pi Day (Only a Little Bit of Pi vs Tau Talk...)". The blog post is available over HTTP, Gemini, Gopher, and RSS :)

[https://vigrey.com/blog/happy-pi-day-only-little-bit-of-pi-vs-tau-talk](https://vigrey.com/blog/happy-pi-day-only-little-bit-of-pi-vs-tau-talk) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110024573068047992)
2023-03-15T18:49:48Z	****
"Beware the Ides of March." As many people commemorate the assassination of Julius Caesar today, I decided to write a blog post about why I commemorate it on March 28th instead. The blog post is titled "This Isn’t Caesar’s Ides of March (Why I Commemorate It on the 28th)" and can be read over HTTP, Gemini, Gopher, or RSS.

Yes, this blog post happened because I'm a calendar nerd :P

[https://vigrey.com/blog/this-isnt-caesars-ides-of-march-why-i-commemorate-it-on-28th](https://vigrey.com/blog/this-isnt-caesars-ides-of-ma ... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110028795999130865)
2023-03-15T18:53:42Z	****
[@GI\_Jack](https://mastodon.social/@GI_Jack) I did the "well actually..." thing I mentioned I would do today :P ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110028811316215539)
2023-03-16T01:08:42Z	****
"I'll put this here so I don't lose it"... has that ever worked out for a single human being in history? I found the pen I was looking for that I lost on Friday finally ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110030285876704080)
2023-03-19T20:44:06Z	****
I know it's no longer [#Caturday](https://mastodon.social/tags/Caturday), but look at my cute kitty! :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110051894665425378)
2023-03-20T21:52:03Z	****
Happy Spring Equinox to the Northern hemisphere and Autumnal Equinox to the Southern hemisphere. :) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110057824167623620)
2023-03-20T22:40:33Z	****
Sorry I'm stealing the Sun from you, Southern hemisphere, but it's my turn to have the sun! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110058014840721207)
2023-03-24T01:54:28Z	****
Working on something a tad nerdy which is a great excuse for me to practice writing with the Shavian alphabet and a great excuse for me to practice translating English into Esperanto :)

Yes, this is Calendar related, because Calendars are my biggest obsession :P ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110075764323166100)
2023-03-25T19:31:52Z	****
Frustration with the Internet Archive case ruling

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I know the publishers that won this case against the Internet Archive give 0 f--ks about me as an individual, but I am WAY less likely to purchase new books now from most publishers. There are some publisher exceptions that I will buy from, like No Starch Press and some indie (especially local) publishers, and of course self published works.

I hate how weaponized copyright is :( ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110085584472795505)
2023-03-26T04:36:12Z	****
I want to play Mouse Trap by the game rules someday. When we had Mouse Trap at my place growing up, I was way too young to figure out the rules, so I enjoyed the heck out of the Rube Goldberg machine design instead. I'm sure the game will be less interesting than playing with that Rube Goldberg machine, but I want to play the game correctly once at least. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110087724869470912)
2023-03-26T05:53:38Z	****
I have been thinking about this for a while... As cool as I think chemical reactions can get, I suspect I would have been an astrologer back in the day (at best, as I likely would have been a farmer out of necessity due to the professional disparity) rather than an alchemist, no matter what people assume of me. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110088029373216016)
2023-03-26T06:53:46Z	****
This won't make much sense yet, but seeing [52] 1:6 on my watch makes me happy that I programmed things correctly ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110088265796629603)
2023-03-26T07:51:59Z	****
I wish to sometime hang out with someone and play Untitled Goose Game co-op to cause a ruckus. Unfortunately as someone who cannot drive, I am too far away from [@ian](https://hachyderm.io/@ian), [@bigendiansmalls](https://hachyderm.io/@bigendiansmalls), and most other MN hackers to see what shenanigans we can create :( I wanna hang out at a park with my switch and play co-op untitled goose game with some folks.

P.S. MN hackers are cooler than any other hackers. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110088494752459523)
2023-03-26T09:39:59Z	****
The fact that I am not hugging 300 Blåhajes right now saddens me :( If I were a bijilionaire, I'd have so many Blåhajes ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110088919428575566)
2023-03-27T21:38:02Z	****
Anyone here have experience with Sphinx for Python? I can't for the life of me figure things out and need help... after running sphinx-quickstart, every tutorial tells me to uncomment lines in conf.py that JUST AREN'T THERE ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110097405193380312)
2023-03-28T22:11:39Z	****
No matter what search results suggest, "git" is not short for "GitHub"...

It's been a bit of a pain to find particular git related info online using search engines because the first 4+ pages of search results are GitHub exclusive answers. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110103199720494563)
2023-03-30T23:40:50Z	****
Oh look, a large snow storm just in time for [@CypherCon](https://infosec.exchange/@CypherCon) and the midwest gaming classic. Who would have guessed that would happen? :P Travel safe, everyone! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110114875017236081)
2023-03-31T04:55:19Z	****
I went for a walk tonight after the rain storm and saw so many small bunnies! ♥️ ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110116111604478939)
2023-03-31T07:32:50Z	****
Thunder :D ♥️ ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110116731013875092)
2023-04-02T05:51:24Z	****
When I say I got the same lesson 4 times in a row, I mean the exact same lesson/test, in the same order every time. I think the 4th time was my fastest lesson, as I had all the answers memorized by then :P ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110127656752691148)
2023-04-02T05:49:06Z	****
I don't know if Duolingo is massively broken right now, but I got the same lesson 4 times in a row, and then got the same question in the "level up" lesson 3 times in a row. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110127647704298439)
2023-04-02T06:33:24Z	****
I JUST GOT A 24.48 SECOND SOLVE TIME ON MY RUBIK'S CUBE!!!! I average 45 seconds and this solve wasn't a lucky solve :O ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110127821906122613)
2023-04-02T06:35:23Z	****
My average has been getting slower over time, so it's a nice change to get a PB time :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110127829705450384)
2023-04-02T08:54:54Z	****
[@jack\_daniel](https://mastodon.social/@jack_daniel) thank you for bringing me happiness with the pictures of the meatballs ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110128378294594590)
2023-04-02T09:33:07Z	****
[@MLE\_online](https://social.afront.org/@MLE_online) seeing your kitters makes my day :D thank you for blessing me with pictures of them! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110128528591026506)
2023-04-04T21:08:48Z	****
Another tarot card design for Gameboy done. This time it's Justice. It's been a while since I did a GB tarot card design. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110142588723063917)
2023-04-04T22:12:50Z	****
Got another [#tarotcard](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarotcard) done! Knowing me, I'll probably not do any more for a few months again :P This one is The Hanging Man. Unfortunately there weren't many color combos to work with, so it's probably the most boring looking finished card, but at least that's another Major Arcana card done! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110142840518283314)
2023-04-05T21:51:20Z	****
The fact that Google has properly supported the <marquee> tag on Chrome for longer than they have supported a LOT of their own projects is a little amusing to me :) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110148418317223864)
2023-04-06T19:33:21Z	****
As nice as a 52 card deck of playing cards is, I am partial to including the 2 jokers, especially if the 2 jokers are different (for example: one joker is grayscale and the other joker has color) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110153538021056693)
2023-04-10T19:22:35Z	****
I just noticed my website's TLS cert was expired since the 1st of April. My apologies for that. It's up and running again now. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110176144921891752)
2023-04-11T00:08:24Z	****
Dropped the "twitch" subdomain from my domain name. The TLS cert will have it until the cert is renewed, but I figured I don't really need the subdomain anymore as I'm not using it anywhere. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110177268809923366)
2023-04-15T10:01:54Z	****
I hugged a kitter and a doggo this last night, which makes me incredibly happy and feeling blessed.

Sorry if you expected tech talk. I sometimes talk about tech at least... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110202251802145179)
2023-04-15T23:00:44Z	****
I got a Sudoku workbook for my birthday and DANG Sudoku is a lot harder than I remember it being!

Also, I kind of forgot how horrible pencil erasers are on cheap workbook paper... so much smearing.

2 puzzles down, 124 more to go!!! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110205314334131214)
2023-04-15T23:34:34Z	****
I'm kind of tempted to make a web page where ALL of the page structure is made out of <marquee> tags ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110205447313342666)
2023-04-17T19:42:21Z	****
I have a birthday wish. I wanna see some fun and cool projects! Hardware, software, sewing, woodworking, metalworking, crocheting, etc... Mind sharing them with me? ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110215858846891296)
2023-04-19T20:58:34Z	****
Considering the solar eclipse is happening in a few hours, I should probably work on solar/lunar eclipse detection code using my haskell program "syzygy" today ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110227483134940719)
2023-04-20T20:58:35Z	****
La lingvo de mia komputilo ("locale" agordo en Linukso) nun estas Esperanto! Hura! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110233145545081117)
2023-04-22T02:09:43Z	****
I got Solar/Lunar Eclipse tracking working based on the data I get with my Haskell project "syzygy" :D

The screenshots show the Solar/Lunar eclipse results for 2 unix timestamps.

The first screenshot's unix timestmap is 1681960707 (Apr 20 2023 03:18:27 UTC), when a Solar Eclipse was occurring.

The second screenshot's unix timestamp is 1683299815 (May 05 2023 15:16:55 UTC), when a Penumbral Lunar Eclipse will be occurring. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110240031278951928)
2023-04-22T03:06:46Z	****
Next step, determine partial vs total eclipse detail globally ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110240255617197037)
2023-04-22T22:15:13Z	****
Added solar/lunar eclipse tracking to syzygy today :D

[https://github.com/ViGrey/syzygy](https://github.com/ViGrey/syzygy) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110244771490199334)
2023-04-23T02:27:13Z	****
Mi komecis traduki la Havamalo en Esperanto. Iam mi ŝatus, ke iu kontrolu mian tradukon. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110245762404352688)
2023-04-23T07:23:58Z	****
Alcohol woes of others in public...

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And because it was a Saturday night, the paper towels in both restrooms were ripped out of the paper towel dispensers that were bashed... I'm glad I don't own a bar! R.I.P. again, paper towel dispensers... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110246929236097400)
2023-04-23T07:20:52Z	****
Alcohol woes of others in public...

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I really wish people around me could handle more than 3 drinks without turning into idots... There were at most 15 people at the bar in my tiny town, but of course a fight had to happen... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110246917081699221)
2023-04-23T09:06:32Z	****
I saw a website that is hosted from a cluster of solar powered servers that was inspired by the solar version of the low tech magazine website, but I forgot what the site is... Someone I follow either posted or boosted a post with the site in it. The page title I saw has the word "Solar" in it, whether or not the domain or subdomain has solar in it...

Mind helping me find the site?

The site, like the solar powered low tech magazine website, has dithered images. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110247332589759374)
2023-04-25T09:12:23Z	****
Wrestless legs are quite annoying while trying to sleep. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110258680191592453)
2023-04-25T14:37:19Z	****
HAPPY WORLD PENGUIN DAY!!! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110259957911775092)
2023-04-25T22:15:44Z	****
Welp, I know what my next blog post will be... See ya, Google Authenticator. Was nice using you while you stored secrets on the user's device only, but now you want me to share my secrets with your servers...

I complained last year about how hard it was to back up the secret codes, so I made my own totp code generator program. It feels like a genie read my blog post and granted my wish in a "careful what you wish for, kid" kind of way.

Thanks [@yawnbox](https://disobey.net/@yawnbox) for the heads up. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110261760468694311)
2023-04-26T02:04:27Z	****
New blog post out on my website, gopherhole, and gemini capsule, titled "A Genie Granted My Wish... Why I'm Uninstalling Google Authenticator"

[https://vigrey.com/blog/genie-granted-my-wish-why-im-uninstalling-google-authenticator](https://vigrey.com/blog/genie-granted-my-wish-why-im-uninstalling-google-authenticator) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110262659803994396)
2023-04-26T02:16:39Z	****
New blog post out on my website, gopherhole, and gemini capsule, titled "A Genie Granted My Wish... Why I'm Uninstalling Google Authenticator"

[https://vigrey.com/blog/genie-granted-my-wish-why-im-uninstalling-google-authenticator](https://vigrey.com/blog/genie-granted-my-wish-why-im-uninstalling-google-authenticator) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110262707760366046)
2023-04-26T11:42:53Z	****
Pulled an all-nighter figuring out enough about git to set up my own git server on the VPS I'm using for my website/gopherhole/gemini-capsule. Next step is to make the git repos browsable over at least over the web, if not also gemini and gopher.

I suspect I'm going to need to change up assumptions in Bergelmir (my web/gopher/gemini/finger server) to make it work nicely. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110264934279514123)
2023-04-27T01:12:30Z	****
A friend of mine got a new kitten and I'm excited to play with said kitten this weekend!!! :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110268117870939801)
2023-04-27T06:11:36Z	****
Making some progress on the git repository browser for my site. The design is heavily inspired by stagit, with some concepts inspired by sourcehut.

Really hoping to get things working within the next week or so, if luck and time are in my favor.

Would like to roll my own on things where I can instead of needing to depend on companies like Microsoft and Google. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110269293947393665)
2023-04-28T05:07:23Z	****
I'm happy that I started using the finger protocol as a mini blog service. Whenever I update my .plan file, I make an archive of the finger server output and place it on my website.

Even though the posts don't have titles like my blog posts do, I feel less pressure while writing .plan files, so I can post more over finger than I can on my blog!

[https://vigrey.com/finger](https://vigrey.com/finger) is the location of my archived finger posts. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110274703767672334)
2023-04-28T05:35:44Z	****
There's something very comforting about having free API access to my mastodon account to be able to autodelete my posts, reposts, and favorites in a timeline I so choose.

Feels a lot like I programmed a bot to clean my dishes and and take out my trash for me.

And as an added bonus, my posts take up less server storage space in total as a result, which at least kind of makes me feel like I'm digitally littering less. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110274815196742043)
2023-04-28T18:31:58Z	****
Happy Arbor Day! To celebrate, here's the soundtrack to "It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown", which is my second favorite Charlie Brown movie soundtrack :D

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv3lKQp9rso](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv3lKQp9rso) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110277867478207056)
2023-04-28T20:25:59Z	****
The thermometer at my local bank is a tad wonky today. Every time the display changes, the value is completely different. Saw -67°, 38°, 161°, -41°, 98°, 62°, and 71°. Another person spent enough time to see 198°, which is only 1° off from the max the display can handle. I think the minimum for the display is -99°.

I suspect that there might be some out of bounds garbage data issue happening that might generally be "fixed" if the temperature display is power cycled. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110278315825065109)
2023-04-29T01:11:22Z	****
Got WAY more work done than I expected today on the git repo display.

Works for me! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110279438015952920)
2023-04-29T06:36:01Z	****
Please provide cats to my Mastodon home posts, [#caturday](https://mastodon.social/tags/caturday). I understand that I can just check the hashtag/list, but I feel like more people that I follow who like or have cats should post or boost more cat pictures for me to see.

Sorry to put pressure yet again on people to show me cats. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110280714575122196)
2023-04-30T04:58:23Z	****
I got to meet a cute 8 week old tortie kitter today :3 Her name is Moogle and she's such a sweetheart ♥️ ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110285993013995191)
2023-05-01T18:56:05Z	****
I think I figured out a 2023 resolution for myself... I want to play through and beat Chrono Trigger finally. Didn't make it that far the last time I played it. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110294949273521912)
2023-05-01T21:55:53Z	****
I'm going to stream for probably a few hours. Working on the git repo browser so people can browse the git repos on my server.

Feel free to stop by and keep me company!

[https://twitch.tv/ViGreyTech](https://twitch.tv/ViGreyTech) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110295656296098483)
2023-05-02T09:28:07Z	****
So far I only have this working on my web server and not my gopherhole or gemini capsule, but I finally have my git server to the point where it's browsable over HTTP!

Only a little more work to get Gemini support

vigrey.com/git/ will be the home of my git repos from this point forward.

[https://vigrey.com/git](https://vigrey.com/git) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110298378271783043)
2023-05-02T09:34:48Z	****
As you can probably see, the design is heavily inspired by stagit, even if it's decently different.

The only dependency it has is the git binary being in the user's path.

Once I have the gemini stuff working, I'll make the code for the git viewer open source on my git server. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110298404501057365)
2023-05-03T09:11:46Z	****
My git repos are now browsable over gemini and gopher at [gopher://vigrey.com/git](gopher://vigrey.com/git) and [gemini://vigrey.com/git](gemini://vigrey.com/git) :D

I also pushed the git repo browsable static page generator to vigrey.com/git/muninn (please excuse how messy and uncommented the code is currently)

Hopefully the next step is to add the ability to generate RSS feeds for all of the repositories.

I wrote a log over the finger protocol talking about muninn, which can be found at [https://vigrey.com/finger/2 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110303976272950430)
2023-05-03T09:40:38Z	****
I really should have made my own git server about a decade ago. I learned quite a lot about how git works and it's decentralized nature doing this project compared to just generally being confused a lot when I used GitHub. I graduated from "confused as heck" to "beginner". Maybe in another 10 years I'll graduate to "competent with the very basics" :P ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110304089735879445)
2023-05-04T00:45:57Z	****
New feature added to Muninn! Added RSS feeds for git repo commits of the HEAD branch. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110307649593867752)
2023-05-04T10:04:31Z	****
Sorry my web server kept going down so much tonight. Was working on getting https support working for the git repos. That was excruciating to figure out...

Either way, my git server now supports fetching repos via https as well as fetching via the go tools.

Time for me to get some much needed sleep... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110309845992984787)
2023-05-05T23:38:51Z	****
Finally deleted my GitHub account. My repos are now all hosted on my server at [https://vigrey.com/git/](https://vigrey.com/git/) :) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110318710383616745)
2023-05-06T05:22:12Z	****
I hope to self host a few more things now that I am self hosting my web server gopherhole, gemini capsule, finger server, and git server to a sufficient level of "from scratch"

\\* My email server (SMTP + POP3)

\\* My ActivityPub presence

\\* XMPP server

\\* Temporary IRC server for when I need one ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110320060511870433)
2023-05-06T05:38:46Z	****
[@rek](https://merveilles.town/@rek)[@neauoire](https://merveilles.town/@neauoire) to some degree, you both have inspired me to do "dogfooding" of things I depend on, so thank you two for the push I needed. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110320125646187817)
2023-05-06T09:07:09Z	****
I will not make any promises, but I hope to host my own ActivityPub federated instance that I design from scratch before 2024 starts. As much as I appreciate having an account from 6 years ago here, I think I would like to take advantage of the decentralization ActivityPub allows and would like to build my own. Sure it won't be Mastodon, but it'll be better, because it'll be the Vi-iverse! Population: Me! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110320945017928251)
2023-05-07T04:48:15Z	****
At some point, I will probably do an Esperanto translation of the reference as well. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110325589290012463)
2023-05-07T04:47:00Z	****
Slowly working on a 6502 instruction reference on my server that I can refer to in a gopher or gemini client. Hoping to get that done by the start of Wednesday. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110325584405602629)
2023-05-07T07:24:42Z	****
If someone wishes to add to my collection of things, I'd love a Nokia 3310 (locked or unlocked, doesn't matter as the cell towers it could work on are torn down near me. I think I'd also prefer no battery as well for safety reasons, but I can dispose of a battery if that's cheaper). My father had one and I think he'd like to see it again in his ripe old age. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110326204529012325)
2023-05-07T07:35:11Z	****
Scratches on it are fine. I'll give it a nice home if someone is willing to part with one. Normally I'd prefer that someone doesn't buy one to make me happy, but they are all used. That said, I'd prefer one that was previously loved by someone who doesn't want to keep it anymore. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110326245709745561)
2023-05-07T08:52:36Z	****
Unrelated to tech... if you have a hot sauce you'd like me to try, feel free to send a sample to me. My heat tolerance is frustratingly high and I miss HOT hot sauces actually causing me to experience heat pain in my mouth.

I have not eaten a straight Carolina reaper yet, but felt 0 heat pain from the ghost pepper I ate and decently minimal heat pain from the trinidad scorpion pepper I ate.

I used to hate hot food, but my heat tolerance gained extremely quickly. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110326550163051397)
2023-05-08T06:46:31Z	****
It's not much, but I put up a reference page for the 6502 Instruction Set on my site (mostly so I have it as a reference when I need it).

I decided to get this page made so it would be accessible over a Gopher or Gemini client.

[https://vigrey.com/6502](https://vigrey.com/6502)

[gemini://vigrey.com/6502](gemini://vigrey.com/6502)

[gopher://vigrey.com/1/6502](gopher://vigrey.com/1/6502) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110331716653359828)
2023-05-08T19:03:06Z	****
I see you fixed the RSS feed to be up date [@pokeythepenguin](https://kolektiva.social/@pokeythepenguin) HOORAY!!! :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110334613055091892)
2023-05-09T09:00:01Z	****
New update to muninn, my git repo display static page generator! Added styling for the added and removed values in the git diff log and git diff stat. Diffs now have red lines for deleted lines and green lines for added lines! Also added the --stylesheetpath flag to allow for a custom external stylesheet.

With this update, I am now supporting dark and light mode browser preferences by default :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110337903936027002)
2023-05-09T09:12:58Z	****
I think my next project might be simplifying the css on my website a bit ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110337954859304105)
2023-05-09T21:29:54Z	****
Changed the styling of my website a bit to simplify it and to remove ALL Javascript from my site :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110340852605846193)
2023-05-11T05:23:58Z	****
I finally got to a 365 day streak on Duolingo learning Esperanto, so I have been learning Esperanto for at least a year :) Now that I got to this point, I am deleting my Duolingo account because of the amount of things Duolingo does that bugs me. I grabbed what knowledge I could and am now FREE of the bird!!! (well, I will be when in 7 days when my account fully gets deleted)

One more password I can remove from my password manager :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110348378981746694)
2023-05-11T10:34:30Z	****
I wrote a blog post about the git server I made, titled "No More GitHub - I Built My Own Git Server". In the post, there is a picture of 2 rubber duckies I suddenly came into possession of lately, even if that has nothing to do with my git server.

[https://vigrey.com/blog/no-more-github-i-built-my-own-git-server](https://vigrey.com/blog/no-more-github-i-built-my-own-git-server) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110349600052953291)
2023-05-11T18:24:38Z	****
For as long as I live, I will continue to misspell "Separate" as "Seperate"... as in "I need to separate the junk mail from the rest of the mail" ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110351448721375208)
2023-05-13T09:26:01Z	****
Got a new phone and number. Surprisingly it worked flawlessly with my new phone service provider. Talk and text only, but about 1/3 of what I was paying a month for the now service. I set up my contacts, but if there are folks I know here that didn't and don't have my number and should have it, feel free to DM me. This is mostly limited to folks I follow, but not forcefully so ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110360655376878235)
2023-05-14T07:44:11Z	****
Anyone who knows Code Page 437 (CCSID 437) is cuter than anyone who doesn't. I mean this in an aro-ace way, but [@bigendiansmalls](https://hachyderm.io/@bigendiansmalls) and [@mainframed767](https://infosec.exchange/@mainframed767) are cuter than all the rest of yall folks by default until proven otherwise. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110365917278495164)
2023-05-14T07:48:23Z	****
People should obsess over "scratch and sniff" enough that companies will bother to make cheap scratch and sniff stuff again. I miss when watch bands or stickers or strategy guides or book covers would smell like cherry or banana or marshmallow or whatever weird chemical concoction they made ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110365933811069955)
2023-05-16T20:05:51Z	****
I mentioned this before, but it's work mentioning again. It's nice that this place compared to the blue bird app lets me see posts in chronological order by default rather than "ordered by the algorithm" and that I can see all of the posts in the last day within 10-15 minutes rather than having an endless scroll of "specially selected" stuff pushed at me ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110380158280030010)
2023-05-17T04:36:47Z	****
[@pokeythepenguin](https://kolektiva.social/@pokeythepenguin) I had a dream that you bought Neocities, so to celebrate, I made a sparkly gif of you :D Lemme know if you want the gif file to use for the world wide web! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110382167348088865)
2023-05-18T01:58:25Z	****
Working on a webring that I'm calling the "Blanket Fort Webring" to show off cool and comfy "lived in" websites. Now I just need to find some people to join it. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110387206919618946)
2023-05-18T03:34:46Z	****
My website was feeling a tad too "modern", so am playing around with the styling a bit. I added custom cursors (arrow and link pointer) to my site and am quite pleased with how they turned out :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110387585750310587)
2023-05-19T00:52:01Z	****
Down to only 36 accounts/passwords I need to manage! That's still about 16 too many imo, but we're getting to what I consider a "not insane" number of accounts. Started with about 150 accounts less than 2 years ago. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110392608150830932)
2023-05-19T04:29:53Z	****
I need to make friends with some of the older folks in my town... I wanna learn firsthand how to use a sewing machine, preferably a mechanical one as opposed to an electrical one. I can sew by hand, but I suspect that eventually getting a mechanical sewing machine will save me a lot of time in general. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110393464823171304)
2023-05-19T20:38:51Z	****
I just wrote out "timezone" in a message and now I want a calzone... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110397274946599800)
2023-05-19T21:32:41Z	****
Wrote a new blog post. "Password Fatigue - Managing Fewer Passwords", where I talk a little bit about going from about 150 accounts/passwords down to 28 in less than 2 years

[https://vigrey.com/blog/password-fatigue-managing-fewer-passwords](https://vigrey.com/blog/password-fatigue-managing-fewer-passwords) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110397486609392621)
2023-05-20T07:21:13Z	****
I hope to beat Metroid Prime Remastered within the next 24 hours. I am playing on Casual mode. I tried beating Metroid Prime 3 times now and I hope this 3rd time is the charm. Just gotta beat the last area now. This is a big deal to me... sorry to bug everyone else about this... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110399800817426881)
2023-05-21T19:15:01Z	****
Slight pet peeve of mine... if your service converts times to the viewer's timezone, please have something state that that's what's happening. You will especially make me happy if you also place the time in UTC for good measure ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110408269929891990)
2023-05-22T03:26:19Z	****
[@pokeythepenguin](https://kolektiva.social/@pokeythepenguin) I set my posts to auto delete after 4 days, so my response to you is gone. If you want the pokey gif, it's still at [https://vigrey.com/images/hooray.gif](https://vigrey.com/images/hooray.gif) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110410201822078847)
2023-05-22T04:44:44Z	****
I wanna start a mostly plaintext (or at least plaintext compatible) zine. Would like to release at least 2 issues a year ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110410510164157876)
2023-05-22T18:57:46Z	****
Anyone else type \`python3\` instead of \`python\` in their terminal by default still? I feel like I should try and break that habit, but at least the habit doesn't break anything (yet) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110413864385967513)
2023-05-22T20:31:18Z	****
Hey [@netspooky](https://haunted.computer/@netspooky) Wanna join my webring? It's called the "Blanket Fort Webring"! So far there are only 2 sites on it :P ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110414232199757693)
2023-05-23T20:23:22Z	****
Looks like open-wrt can work on my router, so I think I know what I'm working on today! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110419863299465049)
2023-05-26T15:42:17Z	****
Surfing the web with only a few "allowed" javascript source domains/subdomains is a strange double edged sword. Quite a lot of sites won't work without javascript available, and a bunch of news sites work even better and without throwing up a paywall with javascript turned off. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110435744949517001)
2023-05-28T07:59:12Z	****
I may be a bit biased, but I think people who make their own stuff, whether that be clothes, website, git server, pocket knife, ink, etc... are cooler and cuter than other folks.

Don't get things twisted though, I'm aroace... but you're still allowed to be cute and cool! I'm only slightly cute and slightly cool, so it's fine. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110445248664936890)
2023-05-28T08:28:36Z	****
I have a specific thing to ask those who grow tomatoes... Has anyone who grew tomatoes NOT had this situation happen? Unable to grow tomatoes for a bit of time (maybe 1+ years), then suddenly growing WAY TOO MANY tomatoes from then on when they finally grow?

I see this situation happen a lot and have been given wayyyyyyyy too many tomatoes from folks not expecting so many successful tomatoes their first successful year, which is why I ask. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110445364313132578)
2023-05-29T19:53:56Z	****
Finished season 1 of Sailor Moon last night. I'm still very surprised that Sailor Mercury was introduced before Sailor Mars, considering the order of the week being Moon-day, Mars-day, Mercury-day, Jupiter-day, Venus-day. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110453721440944447)
2023-05-29T21:21:21Z	****
This is a pretty minor thing in general, but I am now 10 chapters into a 24 chapter fiction book and should be able to finish it within 8 more days. I have not finished a book in 12 years (not for lack of trying...) and I feel like my ability to focus is finally starting to get to the point where I can finish this book. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110454065145542901)
2023-05-29T22:08:43Z	****
Another small thing... but I FINALLY BEAT A GAME OF KLONDIKE SOLITAIRE WITH A PHYSICAL DECK OF CARDS!!! THIS IS MY FIRST TIME WINNING WITH REAL CARDS!!! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110454251446535657)
2023-05-31T19:41:19Z	****
Just called GameStop customer support to close my account (they very recently started sending me emails a lot) and the customer service rep that answered was by far the most useful customer service rep I have ever had the pleasure of speaking to!

I'm probably going to be thinking a lot about the incredibly kind and useful customer service rep stranger for a few days. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110464996435405019)
2023-05-31T20:49:06Z	****
It took me 12 years. Had to change a lot about my internet usage and phone usage to try and claw back some ability to focus again. I finally finished a book after 12 years.

I know this isn't a big thing for a lot of folks, but this is huge for me. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110465262949971606)
2023-06-01T05:01:00Z	****
Lowering intake of taboo substances

* * *

I made it an entire month of May with 0 intake of nicotine. I plan on taking in no more than 11.808 fluid oz of alcohol the entire month of June.

My goal is not to quit either of them, but to not take in any of either in "casual" settings so I can enjoy them in more "ritual" style settings.

July's goal is a bit different than June. Rather than taking in only 11.808 fl oz of alcohol, I plan on only taking in alcohol in "ritual" settings. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110467197232849833)
2023-06-01T05:04:23Z	****
Lowering intake of taboo substances

* * *

The reason for 11.808 fluid oz is because I promised myself I would only take in a single 24 pack of 12 oz cans of Busch Light worth of alcohol for the entire month. That gives me a quantifiable budget, so if someone wants to have a drink with me, I need to take that amount of alcohol out of the budget. One such instance will be a can of stele reserve later on in June that will use 8-9 days worth of the alcohol budget for a single can. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110467210524673349)
2023-06-02T20:11:43Z	****
Photo taken from my Nokia 225 4G phone, so it's only 0.3MP, but 4 times higher quality than I expected it to be. Got 480px by 640px instead of the screen resolution of 240px by 320px. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110476440604760460)
2023-06-02T20:10:18Z	****
It's been a very long time since I doodled, so I doodled a little guy! I decided that he's a ghost that likes metal music and corn mazes, and even though he's a ghost, he doesn't cheat by going through the corn maze walls. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110476435010318907)
2023-06-03T22:33:50Z	****
One thing I definitely did not expect... About 85% of my total internet download bandwidth in the last 31 days was texlive updates. I might try to figure out groff a bit more so I can use that for writing my resume and such instead. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110482661742348355)
2023-06-04T03:36:36Z	****
Added a "Standby Mode" screen to my smart watch to save battery life. Sorry about the poor lighting. My phone camera doesn't have flash.

I'll need to do some testing to make sure the bluetooth and wifi radios are turned off and that the esp32 inside of this watch stays in deep sleep mode until a button is pressed, but it already seems to be saving battery usage. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110483852265659835)
2023-06-04T22:53:27Z	****
I want a "business beige" theme option on this mastodon instance :( ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110488401159097612)
2023-06-07T07:32:35Z	****
I'm likely very late to the club here, but I just found out about the netsurf web browser by watching a video that talks a little bit about plan9 and I LOVE IT THIS BROWSER!!! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110501767114757223)
2023-06-07T07:28:49Z	****
[@pokeythepenguin](https://kolektiva.social/@pokeythepenguin) I SENT YOU AN INTERNET MAIL WITH THE SPARKLE POKEY GIF! IT MIGHT BE IN YOUR SPAM FOLDER, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF IT TASTES LIKE SPAM ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110501752335899554)
2023-06-07T08:07:36Z	****
Finally trying out toot, the TUI mastodon client. Over time, I hope to write a mastodon client of my own that does exactly what I want it to do and no more than that. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110501904826850135)
2023-06-10T00:56:09Z	****
Bought a twisty puzzle from the nearby reused goods store! It's the X-Cube. I'll probably write the method I use for solving this cube soon, although I need to figure out a way to describe my method for solving it. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110517195204904911)
2023-06-10T23:40:03Z	****
[@mainframed767](https://infosec.exchange/@mainframed767) Found this web page by selecting "surprise me..." on the wiby search engine and it made me think of you [http://archives.somnolescent.net/web/hypercard/](http://archives.somnolescent.net/web/hypercard/) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110522558255525373)
2023-06-11T02:16:13Z	****
I really want to eat cereal out of the Stanley Cup... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110523172354658479)
2023-06-11T06:32:18Z	****
My cat just ran into my door again, did a loud meow, and then ran downstairs... I feel bad every time that happens, because I'm pretty sure she runs headfirst into my door, but I can't stop it because I never know when it's gonna happen. Her zoomies actions worry me frequently. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110524179295293571)
2023-06-11T06:27:51Z	****
Changed my mind... I want to eat Tater Tot Hotdish out of the Stanley Cup. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110524161839705335)
2023-06-13T21:19:14Z	****
Holy heck! Max Park managed to beat the previous 3x3 Rubik's Cube world record by a third of a second! The 3x3 single world record is back in the United States :D 3.13 second solve! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110538991522894756)
2023-06-14T08:59:48Z	****
Took wayyyyy longer than I hoped it would in the last day, but I have converted my resume from LaTeX to groff (with the ms macros). As a result, I can uninstall texlive and the resulting pdf file is also smaller than when I convert the latex version to pdf! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110541746256481923)
2023-06-15T08:46:39Z	****
I may have spent some time tonight making sure my website works on netscape navigator 9.0... :) It'll take some time before the HSTS preload is no longer included in the major browsers, but once it's cleared out, my website can be visited over http instead of https using the http subdomain, so [http://http.vigrey.com](http://http.vigrey.com) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110547356833594579)
2023-06-15T09:32:32Z	****
I just checked and the http version of my site looks very good on Internet Explorer 5.5 :D

I consider this a success!!! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110547537286188620)
2023-06-15T18:26:45Z	****
I saw a picture of a few people ordered from tallest to shortest and my brain instinctively said "those are the sort of folks..." and I think I have been spending too much time sorting arrays lately... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110549637862001451)
2023-06-16T04:22:09Z	****
It's strange seeing all of the posts about Debian Bookworm because I relatively recently installed a program called bookworm to manage and read epub files with.

Seeing people mention bookworm will throw me off for a while :P ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110551979111810213)
2023-06-18T23:25:43Z	****
I made a few 3.5 inch by 5.5 inch notebooks with some paper and a poster I had laying around. Accidentally cut 1 sheet of paper wrong for the left notebook, so it only has 28 pages, but the one on the right has 32 pages. Only required 8 pieces of paper and 4 staples :D Inspired by the Oddly Specific Daybook by [@joeycastillo](https://mastodon.social/@joeycastillo)

I write notes decently often, so it's nice to recycle things I already have to be useful. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110567800404896581)
2023-06-19T05:08:17Z	****
Another 2 notebooks made. This one is a bit of a contrast in terms of quality... I had some leftover linen textured paper from a project back in 2018-2019, so I used those sheets of paper as the notebook pages. I also had a Busch Light 24-pack box laying around in my office, so figured I'd use that as the cover.

I need to flatten the notebooks a bit though, so I need to find some nice flat books I can put them between and put heavy stuff on. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110569147419512280)
2023-06-19T19:11:59Z	****
Finished reading "Beowulf" last night and am now continuing reading "How to Talk Minnesotan." "Beowulf" was meh in my opinion, but I'm having a hoot and a half reading "How to Talk Minnesotan" :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110572464996882986)
2023-06-19T19:27:12Z	****
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GARFIELD! Sorry your birthday fell on a Monday this year. I'll try to find some lasagna to celebrate though. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110572524820539041)
2023-06-20T23:34:14Z	****
Decided to install 9front as the only OS on my laptop. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately?) the wifi card in the laptop won't work with 9front, but I can still connect to the internet via a wired connection whenever I need to do online stuff on my laptop.

It'll be nice to have an "offline-first" mentality when writing and/or programming on my laptop. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110579158524594982)
2023-06-21T08:19:03Z	****
Holy heck, my resume pdf file when built on plan9 is considerably smaller than when I build it on linux. The tooling is a bit different though.

Building the resume pdf file on linux results in an about 24-ish KB file and on plan9 the pdf is about 7 KB. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110581222146218622)
2023-06-21T21:07:48Z	****
The source code for my resume takes more bytes to store than the PDF file generated on Plan9 of that resume. I don't know how. Part of me wants to look into what's going on to make that happen, but part of me realizes I'd be going into a rabbit hole I wouldn't enjoy :P ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110584245000594580)
2023-06-21T22:13:57Z	****
Sorry for the stupid question, but I can't find the answer anywhere... how the heck to I set an acme window to be a shell on [#plan9](https://mastodon.social/tags/plan9) ?

I tried executing rc to no avail ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110584505119153464)
2023-06-22T06:48:57Z	****
I have good news and bad news. Good news is I got a chocolate chip cookie! The bad news is the container that had the cookies had some cursive writing that said "Scratch Quality" and I read it as "Scratch Duality" and spent about 40 seconds trying to figure out what "Scratch Duality" could mean. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110586530189747244)
2023-06-22T21:56:28Z	****
"Your password is too similar to a password you used before"

Excuse me?... How would you know that if you're properly storing a salted hash of my password?... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110590098725334408)
2023-06-23T00:31:20Z	****
Writing a new blog post at the moment about a system I'm using to generate random passwords without a computer. The passwords meet the following requirements:

\\* Must contain at least 8 characters

\\* Must contain at least 1 uppercase letter

\\* Must contain at least 1 number

\\* Must contain at least 1 special character

The motive of this system is to create human readable passwords with unambiguous characters in case I need to write the password down somewhere. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110590707639984485)
2023-06-23T00:34:24Z	****
The following sentence is probably going to sound a bit weird to some people who follow infosec stuff...

It's too easy to generate unnecessarily long and complicated passwords on a computer.

I think it's a good thing to have the ability to write down a password unambiguously and with less risk of writing the password wrong. Sometimes computers go belly up and it's good to have an analog backup of passwords in those cases. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110590719707409578)
2023-06-24T07:03:59Z	****
I want to make a system from scratch that can understand PalmOS Graffiti writing...

As a "white whale" project, I want to be able to read PalmOS Graffiti on a famicom using the "Hori Track" trackball controller... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110597913946423307)
2023-06-24T07:11:03Z	****
I have played around a little bit over the years with HaikuOS and it makes me very happy.

Personal computing should be fun in my opinion, at least for me. HaikuOS and Plan9 both meet that threshold for me. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110597941703426979)
2023-06-25T02:50:53Z	****
I think I figured out the new design for my business card. Just like the previous business card, I will be including braille. This time there will be three lines of braille, which will state:

Vi

Grey

.com

or in braille:

⠠⠧⠊

⠠⠛⠗⠑⠽

⠲⠉⠕⠍

I know it's not the "correct" way to handle it, but the context should be good enough to understand that my website is vigrey.com or ViGrey.com while also giving the context that I'm "Vi Grey". ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110602581042737477)
2023-06-26T08:17:31Z	****
I just published my latest blog post "Using Dice to Generate Human Readable Passwords" where I talk about how I generated passwords using a dice because the passwords I generated using password managers had some issues when trying to copy the passwords to a piece of paper.

[https://vigrey.com/blog/using-dice-to-generate-human-readable-passwords](https://vigrey.com/blog/using-dice-to-generate-human-readable-passwords) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110609527689901284)
2023-06-28T00:27:22Z	****
I want to try and read all of Godel Escher Bach soon. I keep making it only a few chapters in and stopping. I'll be starting over from the beginning. Anyone want to join me? It'll be nice motivation knowing some other folks are reading it too. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110619003616748804)
2023-06-29T10:47:29Z	****
Until I eventually end up leaving Discord, I will continue to "react" to posts with written out emoticons rather than clicking on the "react" button stuff Discord wants me to use. Sorry, but it's what I know to do in IRC channels and will forever be what I do. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110627104340960501)
2023-06-30T20:37:08Z	****
Oh cool, twitter is requiring people to log in to see any twitter content now. This will totally be great for people who share twitter memes on discord and the majority of those people can't see the meme anymore.

I suspect twitter will "fix" this by allowing discord's web fetcher through to make the preview content. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110635085242046603)
2023-07-01T05:13:32Z	****
I wanna be in the universe where I'm complaining about PalmOS and Plan9 being the biggest players in computing OSes ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110637115800159935)
2023-07-01T18:31:14Z	****
Happy Canada Day and 10 year anniversary of when Google took Google Reader away from us! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110640252457472775)
2023-07-01T19:45:57Z	****
Can you jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace? ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110640546272313440)
2023-07-03T07:10:44Z	****
Updated my webserver software. Now it supports "text" and "www.text" subdomains to give a "text only" version of my website if you don't want to load images (including a favicon image) when loading html pages.

You can see it in action at [http://text.vigrey.com](http://text.vigrey.com) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110648901293938069)
2023-07-04T21:23:01Z	****
After a few people have asked me about my wallpapers, I decided to add the desktop wallpapers I use on my desktop computer to my site.

[https://vigrey.com/wallpapers](https://vigrey.com/wallpapers)

[gopher://vigrey.com/wallpapers](gopher://vigrey.com/wallpapers)

[gemini://vigrey.com/wallpapers](gemini://vigrey.com/wallpapers) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110657914917667385)
2023-07-05T05:43:51Z	****
"Everything is Chrome in the future"... I hate how that has become the reality for web browsers and a bunch of desktop applications...

I want a better alternative future... "Everything has a top-down isometric perspective in the future"! A better future was possible. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110659884228587394)
2023-07-05T06:11:42Z	****
The fact that the knights are riding birds in Joust makes me very happy. Best arcade game. 10/10 :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110659993789753751)
2023-07-05T07:12:57Z	****
Anyone happen to have a DSi? I'm curious to figure out how well my website works on the DSi web browser. The 3DS's only issue is that the pages can scroll horizontally because the background ended up being a bit bigger than expected.

My website is accessible over http as well as https ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110660234623888612)
2023-07-05T07:09:49Z	****
Decided to test my website on my 3DS and it worked WAY BETTER than I expected it would :D

I consider that a success! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110660222286154299)
2023-07-05T11:01:51Z	****
Strange question for folks, but do you write "X" the letter and "X" as in checking something off differently?

I write "X" the letter starting from the top left to bottom right, then bottom left to top right.

I write "X" as in checking something off from the top left to bottom right, then top right to bottom left.

They both look essentially the same, but for some reason I write them differently depending on the purpose "X" fills. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110661134694971272)
2023-07-05T21:15:42Z	****
If your website has a popup that has antipatterns you lose the right to run javascript from your site on my network. Sorry, but it's the law. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110663548430706135)
2023-07-07T07:47:27Z	****
Rather than work on what I was initially gonna work on, I converted [@spetku](https://mastodon.social/@spetku)'s child "noodleFeet" and [@pokeythepenguin](https://kolektiva.social/@pokeythepenguin) into tamagotchi! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110671694878931977)
2023-07-08T01:11:35Z	****
Reject 8-bit art! 1-bit art with a resolution of 32px by 16px is where it's at nowadays!

Sorry I didn't respond to your message, I was too busy feeding my Tamagotchi. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110675800563803408)
2023-07-08T03:17:00Z	****
I love 8 bit art btw! Please post more pixel art, whether 8 bit, 2 bit, 16 bit, etc!

I wanna see more pixel art here! I also wanna see more ASCII art and ANSI art here! And low poly/resolution art! :) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110676293744306763)
2023-07-08T03:17:00Z	****
I love 8 bit art btw! Please post more pixel art, whether 8 bit, 2 bit, 16 bit, etc!

I wanna see more pixel art here! I also wanna see more ASCII art and ANSI art here! And low poly/resolution art! :) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110676293744306763)
2023-07-08T22:16:46Z	****
Anyone know any good carolina reaper or ghost pepper salsas available for purchase online? ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110680775473597758)
2023-07-09T03:07:59Z	****
Updated my web/gemini/gopher server to handle index.html and index.gmi files in the "expected" way. Also edited my git repo static site builder to use index files as well. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110681920600458854)
2023-07-10T22:23:18Z	****
🯅🯆 Stick figures hooray! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110692125825682928)
2023-07-13T09:59:17Z	****
I'm at the home stretch of getting my password/totp manager finished! It's quite simple and doesn't have many bells and whistles, but that's what I want. Just prints things to STDOUT in the terminal and works perfectly well on a Plan9 machine that has very little access to the internet. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110706187123673296)
2023-07-14T06:42:58Z	****
I'm convinced that everything is an Isekai when focusing with a high enough precision... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110711077509030100)
2023-07-15T17:11:12Z	****
We should put our differences aside for the moment on the "it's pronounced gif" argument to join against a common enemy... all of these platforms calling a movie file a gif... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110719210129921484)
2023-07-15T22:18:04Z	****
Got my new business cards in today! Just finished punching braille onto them. Only 1 card casualty from a mispunching. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110720416759928903)
2023-07-18T05:47:05Z	****
Took me a little longer than a month, but I finished up my password and totp manager. It works great on plan9 even when my plan9 laptop is offline at almost all times.

Next step is figuring out a good analog backup method for the password and totp vaults. I'll probably do paper backups of the files. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110733506970894227)
2023-07-20T00:05:23Z	****
Tracking the year using a deck of poker playing cards with 2 jokers. Today's date is Q♥️6♥️ in my limerick calendar and K♠️6♠️ in the Gregorian calendar, although the deck for the Gregorian calendar only needs 1 joker this year and the limerick calendar deck needs 2 jokers this year. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110743487998083258)
2023-07-20T22:25:58Z	****
I'm looking into making sure my website is completely valid HTML 4.01 and CSS 2. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110748759397143130)
2023-07-25T22:28:26Z	****
Not long ago, I was of the opinion that if you can sign up for a service (especially a paid service) online, you should be able to cancel that service online. My position has changed slightly... I think if you have to use a phone call or send a letter to cancel the paid service, you should have to call or send a letter to start the service!

Both positions fit the "you should be able to cancel a service in the same way you started the service" position at least. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110777080655677209)
2023-07-25T23:13:45Z	****
It's been a very hot second since I last saw Hackers. I should bug some folks to do a movie night soon! Unfortunately I won't be at DEFCON or Black Hat this year, so I won't be able to watch with folks there. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110777258854612864)
2023-07-26T00:01:10Z	****
Does anyone know any character encodings that take advantage of balanced ternary? ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110777445287224689)
2023-07-26T21:35:04Z	****
The thing I absolutely love about the [#gemini](https://mastodon.social/tags/gemini) protocol is that it's up to the client to decide how to display content, not the server.

Give me the data and let me figure out what I want to do with it. This is very opposite to the "modern web" which too frequently wants the server to control as much of the user/client experience as possible. This is continues to be true with Google adding "Web environment integrity" to Chrome. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110782533138351712)
2023-07-27T04:52:14Z	****
Ope, I think I accidentally broke Twitch for a moment. Popped onto a stream and it said I had a little over 120 minutes of ads to watch. Refresh fixed that. I wonder if it was a weird timezone issue like I had with discord before where waiting for 10 minutes to speak ended up being 310 minutes ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110784252086595966)
2023-07-28T23:11:10Z	****
Any programmers who program in Go that also have experience programming in Zig? How is Zig? Is it fun to nice and/or program in? ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110794235590812735)
2023-07-29T06:32:34Z	****
It's [#Caturday](https://mastodon.social/tags/Caturday), so please provide my feed with so many pictures of cats! It's the law! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110795971262706013)
2023-07-30T22:38:46Z	****
I'm currently streaming some work on a python and go module for calculating the Limerick Calendar date from the Gregorian date and representing the Limerick Calendar date using 2 playing cards. Feel free to hang out with me while I work on this!

[https://twitch.tv/ViGreyTech](https://twitch.tv/ViGreyTech) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110805432798805313)
2023-07-30T23:46:04Z	****
One day I'll buy a company and rename it "U+1D54F" ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110805697467206053)
2023-08-01T01:24:30Z	****
I played and beat Mysteries Under Lake Ophelia last night. Atmospheric fishing game that's kind of a horror game that essentially feels like if the fishing area in Ocarina of Time was an entire game. Very enjoyable 3-5 hours of gameplay :D It's on sale on the Nintendo Switch currently on its own for $2 USD or a combo pack with Fatum Betula (one of my favorite atmospheric games, also created by the same creator) also for $2 USD ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110811746830944506)
2023-08-01T21:29:19Z	****
Happy big moon day! :D 🌕 ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110816484362555984)
2023-08-02T01:15:33Z	****
Currently writing my first 3 game reviews :O For 3 PlayStation 1 style horror games that are available on the Nintendo Switch :D I like that I can take screenshots from my Switch and transfer them pretty easily to my computer so the reviews can have a few screenshots :D Reviews tend to look better with screenshots :D

The 3 games are:

\\* Fatum Betula

\\* Mysteries Under Lake Ophelia

\\* Paratopic ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110817373924788442)
2023-08-02T04:34:34Z	****
My first video game review is up on my site :) It's for the game Fatum Betula. The game is currently on sale on the Nintendo Switch eShop for $1.99 USD in 2 different bundles, one with it and Paratopic, and one with it and Mysteries Under Lake Ophelia. [https://vigrey.com/games/fatum-betula](https://vigrey.com/games/fatum-betula) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110818156505763819)
2023-08-02T21:18:41Z	****
[@shavian](https://polyglot.city/@shavian) Something that has popped up a few times now that I am very curious about that you might know the answer to. Some initialisms (examples: NPC, FBI) start with a consonant letter that when said as just the letter starts with a vowel sound, so we use "an" instead of "a", like "an NPC" or "an FBI agent". How would those initialisms be written out in the Shavian alphabet? ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110822104840064252)
2023-08-02T22:59:28Z	****
Some very late Spring cleaning of my $HOME directory... Trying to get my directory/file count in my $HOME directory down to under 30 instead of 270... That doesn't count second order files or directories...

Currently down to 163 at this exact moment, only about 130 more directories and files to organize or delete ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110822501152537465)
2023-08-03T05:33:01Z	****
You are cuter as a person to me by default if you are interested in good public transit, especially in trains... Just saying... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110824048657765105)
2023-08-03T05:37:05Z	****
I may be asexual and aromantic, but I wanna be able to tell folks that they are cute as heck without being weird and without folks assuming anything they shouldn't... If you are pro-public transit and especially pro good train system, I might consider you cute as heck and I'll give you the compliment that I enjoy of being cute as heck! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110824064656357486)
2023-08-03T22:34:54Z	****
I started with 276 files and directories in my home directory and now I'm at 15 :D Feels nice to see a bunch of clutter tidied up and organized! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110828066886615695)
2023-08-06T08:03:46Z	****
Sorry if this feels like advertising... I promise my intention is the opposite, or at least close to the opposite... I plan to stream quite a few days this month on Twitch and plan to play Outer Wilds, but this month is my planned last month streaming on twitch. I prefer Amazon to not make money off of me, but if I leave before the payout, Amazon gets to keep that money... so I plan to get the last payout and then ditch... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110841628331549359)
2023-08-09T03:52:02Z	****
I really wish there was a way for me to turn off "Live feeds", "TRENDING NOW", and "Explore" without needing to resort to a browser add-on. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110857625409795451)
2023-08-10T00:02:02Z	****
Time for more Outer Wilds for me! [https://twitch.tv/vigreytech](https://twitch.tv/vigreytech) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110862383369956730)
2023-08-10T08:14:49Z	****
I'm pretty sure I'm within 3 hours of beating Outer Wilds finally! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110864321084429149)
2023-08-10T11:17:33Z	****
I finally beat Outer Wilds tonight (although I ended up beating it off-stream). Beautiful game, although it spooked me a few times. I recommend it quite a lot in general! I also highly recommend playing it without a guide of any sort. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110865039572345104)
2023-08-11T21:13:23Z	****
I have an idea for an "epic" prank video! Go into a casino and hang up clocks! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110873044814352545)
2023-08-12T19:28:19Z	****
Cæt >^..^< ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110878293953868403)
2023-08-15T04:02:44Z	****
Frequently realizing that I'd absolutely love to have a paperback version of the golang standard library docs... just slap version 1.20 on it and then I'll only have to worry about a few new things since then. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110891641392172352)
2023-08-15T04:48:29Z	****
Deleted my Twitch link from my website/gopherhole/gemini-capsule today. Going to try and offboard my affiliate status this week. Not sure exactly when I'll get rid of my account, but I won't be streaming on Twitch anymore starting September 1st. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110891821240207549)
2023-08-15T05:37:35Z	****
New update on my website! The "Text Only" link at the bottom of each page on my site links directly to the same page instead of the home page, so going to the /blog page and clicking on the "Text Only" link at the bottom of the page will redirect to text.vigrey.com/blog and so on so forth for other pages. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110892014353818182)
2023-08-15T05:43:05Z	****
As a reminder, the "Text Only" version of my site only gives 1 resource at any time. Even if you load a page on my site that normally has images, you will only get the html file (although with the image descriptions printed out and the images behind a link that can be requested). No CSS, no Javascript, no images. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110892035945747573)
2023-08-15T07:27:52Z	****
Anyone else having trouble opening image links on lagrange? I can open ogg audio files just fine, so it doesn't seem to be an issue opening media files in genera. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110892447989882813)
2023-08-16T06:38:07Z	****
I did it... I deleted the system32 directory from my computer... My computer is now running faster :P

I haven't used the Windows 10 partition on my computer (I paid for a Windows 10 license) in about 4 years but needed the motivation to clear out my harddrive and do a clean install. That inspiration came from finally getting an SSD because a friend of mine was appalled that I was using a spinning rust drive and sent me his spare SSD :P ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110897914688852396)
2023-08-16T23:07:02Z	****
Streaming a bit more RSS feed generator for Gemtext files development in Go. Feel free to stop by and say hey!

[https://twitch.tv/vigreytech](https://twitch.tv/vigreytech) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110901803243074336)
2023-08-17T00:54:01Z	****
Heck yeah! Just noticed that mplayer can grab audio from gopher links :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110902223907023718)
2023-08-18T05:58:45Z	****
Muninn (the git repo viewer program I made) generates static html and gemtext pages, so I'd like bergelmir to do similar. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110909084511870278)
2023-08-18T05:56:51Z	****
I'm trying to find the right wording for a blog post, but I plan on converting bergelmir (my web server) into a static site generator and simple server. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110909077027677392)
2023-08-18T08:13:22Z	****
Sorry if the gopher and gemini version of my RSS feed breaks a bit. I think I handled things properly.

The http version of my rss feed might have acted up a little bit as I changed to a new system for dealing with RSS feeds on my site. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110909613837481753)
2023-08-18T08:20:27Z	****
A nice consequence of handling RSS the way I am now is that I can have more RSS feeds! :D along with [https://vigrey.com/feed](https://vigrey.com/feed), I have [https://vigrey.com/blog/feed](https://vigrey.com/blog/feed) (same feed, but different URL), [https://vigrey.com/finger/feed](https://vigrey.com/finger/feed), and [https://vigrey.com/games/feed](https://vigrey.com/games/feed). ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110909641694996835)
2023-08-18T08:41:32Z	****
I have decided that I am going to build the tools required for me to determine my latitude and longitude manually. Latitude should be pretty easy, but longitude requires me to build a timekeeping piece. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110909724604615165)
2023-08-22T04:14:28Z	****
I have an incredibly niche problem that people will consider a solved problem... I need a way to determine what time it is in Greenwich from where I'm at...

I know I can just use the -500 offset while knowing my timezone is CDT, but I'd like to try a more manual approach.

The only idea I can come up with so far is to send a watch to someone through the post who can synchronize it to GMT (preferably to solar time), and have them send the watch back to me. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110931323704586191)
2023-08-22T04:43:28Z	****
Yes, this is a version of the Longitude Problem. Yes, I know it has been solved and is trivial to solve now with the internet. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110931437707967722)
2023-08-22T23:15:58Z	****
Streaming for a bit until I get too hot and humid in my office. Working on a True Solar Time clock display for my computer (although using a specific lat/lon from Minneapolis to avoid doxxing myself). Might work on static site generation after I finish the solar time display. Feel free to hang out with me while I work on this :)

Btw, I will not be streaming anymore come September 1st.

[https://twitch.tv/vigreytech](https://twitch.tv/vigreytech) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110935812270615389)
2023-08-23T05:20:10Z	****
Sorry, but I won't be streaming for the next few days. My streaming setups (Computer in my office and PS4 in my room) are in dangerous temperature situations. Talk to you after the heat wave is done. My office is currently at 126F, and my bedroom is currently at 114F, even though outside is currently 84F and the heat index is 97F. Turning my computer off in my office a few seconds after I post this.

See you in a few days... gonna be in my basement for a while... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110937244364610587)
2023-08-24T23:16:14Z	****
I have a really cool (in my opinion) idea for a hacker conference badge that mixes analog and digital in a fun way :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110947137931573355)
2023-08-24T23:13:41Z	****
Casual mention of the taste of an alcoholic beverage

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I'm currently drinking a can of busch light that was stored in a room that was over 100F and for some weird reason it tastes exactly like non-alcoholic church wine. I think it might mostly be because of the stinging feeling it gives my tongue, probably due to acidity and carbon dioxide, but I can't taste anything besides NA church wine. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110947127874475760)
2023-08-26T03:07:01Z	****
If there's something that's completely true about me, it's that I can't go too long without changing the look of my website :P

Sorry, but I got rid of quite a bit of the neocities look to focus more on content. Going for a slightly more HTML 0 look, or at least more of a gemtext look. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110953707676950332)
2023-08-26T06:12:13Z	****
Last 6 days of me streaming. I'm pretty tired, but I'm going to be working on some webdesign and web server development for a bit.

[https://twitch.tv/ViGreyTech](https://twitch.tv/ViGreyTech) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110954435940005791)
2023-08-26T21:50:51Z	****
Today in my calendar system the "Limerick Calendar", the day is 6:9... nice... :)

[http://vigrey.com/wiki/limerick\_calendar](http://vigrey.com/wiki/limerick_calendar) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110958126813589019)
2023-08-27T09:04:36Z	****
My apologies if I was following you on twitch and am not following you anymore. Twitch only allows me to refuse gifted subs for channels I am not following, and I plan to get rid of my account completely within a month. Unfortunately I am not "verified" with a phone number, so I won't be able to chat in a few channels. I'll still be around though. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110960776069114078)
2023-08-28T00:15:57Z	****
Welp, that took longer than I wanted it to. My https git setup broke, so no one could pull or clone from my git repos. It's working now though and should continue working in the case of a reboot. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110964359644385194)
2023-08-28T08:46:45Z	****
Finally ended up figuring out how to determine the equation of time at any particular second in time. Added the 2 contributors to the equation of time to syzygy. [https://vigrey.com/git/syzygy](https://vigrey.com/git/syzygy) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110966368177194177)
2023-08-28T22:00:59Z	****
Working on some sun and moon tracking datapoint stuff on stream. This is my last 4 days of streaming before I'm done streaming on Twitch completely. Feel free to stop by and hang out.

[https://twitch.tv/vigreytech](https://twitch.tv/vigreytech) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110969491254539410)
2023-08-29T08:43:16Z	****
I set my watch's (the Watchy by [@sqfmi](https://mastodon.online/@sqfmi)) time to UTC and added in the local solar time (modified my longitude a bit for this picture to prevent being doxxed). This lets me pretend that I live in a state that doesn't observe daylight saving time :D

C++ is definitely not my strongsuit, but I'm glad I am getting the same values in my C++ port of syzygy as I am in the original haskell version I made. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110972016844967204)
2023-08-30T01:42:31Z	****
My last 3 days of streaming. Currently streaming my attempt to plot the Equation of Time using sun tracking data so I can use the plot for a blog post.

[https://twitch.tv/ViGreyTech](https://twitch.tv/ViGreyTech) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110976024694770025)
2023-08-30T10:55:11Z	****
I graphed the Equation of Time on my own using data I calculated using the formulas in Jean Meeus's "Astronomical Algorithms 2nd Edition" :D Working on a blog post that uses these graphs.

The first graph is the Equation of Time for the Gregorian Calendar.

The second graph is the Equation of Time for my Limerick Calendar system. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110978197850656577)
2023-08-30T23:37:04Z	****
This orbit's perigee ended up being about 357184.786958 KM in length and this orbit's apogee ended up being about 406632.562529 KM in length. I used those numbers for determining the average (mean) full moon by setting the distance of that full moon to the average of that perigee and apogee. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110981193679502350)
2023-08-30T23:34:18Z	****
I decided to calculate the data for the Super Blue Moon today on my own.

The full moon will occur on August 31, 2023 at about 01:36:54UTC (about 1 hour from now).

The full moon will occur about 9 hours, 39 minutes, and 24 seconds after perigee (closest point of the orbit).

The moon will be about 99.678454% of the distance of perigee from apogee (farthest point of the orbit)

The moon will be about 14.221164% brighter and about 14.220939% larger than if the average (mean) full moon. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110981182828662002)
2023-08-30T23:46:48Z	****
Holy crap, this person is a nerd... :) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110981231988736918)
2023-08-30T23:54:53Z	****
For context for how much larger the moon will be, the moon is about the size of a US dime held out at arm's length. A US dime is about 0.7 inches in diameter. Increase the dime's diameter to 0.75 inches (an increase of 1.27mm) and extend the dime out to arm's length. That's how little of an impact the "Super Moon" makes to the size of the moon ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110981263746631131)
2023-08-31T00:31:32Z	****
This orbit's perigee ended up being about 357184.786958 KM in length and this orbit's apogee ended up being about 406632.562529 KM in length. I used those numbers for determining the average full moon by setting the distance of that full moon to the average of that perigee and apogee. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110981407834356899)
2023-08-31T00:31:09Z	****
Super Blue Moon Nerd stuff... I calculated the data for the Super Blue Moon today.

The full moon will happen in about 1 hour, on August 31, 2023 at 01:36:54UTC

The full moon will occur about 9 hours, 39 minutes, and 24 seconds after perigee (closest point of the orbit).

The moon will be about 99.678454% of the distance of perigee from apogee (farthest point of the orbit)

The moon will be about 14.221164% brighter and about 14.220939% larger than the average (mean) full moon. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110981406382473431)
2023-08-31T01:11:19Z	****
This is the entire difference between this Super Blue Moon and the Average Full Moon. About 14% brighter and 14% bigger than normal, but in the middle of the sky, you're not going to notice. It's easier to notice in this picture because it's quite a large image compared to what you'll see when looking at the moon in the sky. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110981564305721997)
2023-08-31T04:08:17Z	****
If anyone wanted to get me a physical copy of Astronomical Algorithms 2nd Edition, I will consider you a super cool awesome person! [https://shopatsky.com/products/astronomical-algorithms-2nd-edition](https://shopatsky.com/products/astronomical-algorithms-2nd-edition) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110982260147894685)
2023-08-31T04:18:25Z	****
I don't know if I'm in the minority on this, but doom core memes and jokes make me sad and a little annoyed :( ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110982300011683344)
2023-08-31T23:32:39Z	****
Starting up my last stream in a few minutes. Gonna play some games and maybe do some programming later. I suspect this stream will be quite long, so feel free to stop by and say hello during my last stream :)

[https://twitch.tv/vigreytech](https://twitch.tv/vigreytech) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110986838638253210)
2023-09-01T04:28:08Z	****
Doing some programming now on my stream. I won't be streaming anymore after today, at least on Twitch, but likely anywhere else either.

[https://twitch.tv/ViGreyTech](https://twitch.tv/ViGreyTech) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110988000530008634)
2023-09-01T08:49:29Z	****
Thanks to everyone who came to my last stream :) Now I can disconnect my twitch account from everything. I will be filling out the form to delete my Twitch account on the 25th or 26th of September, when my last Twitch sub runs out. Will be nice to have 1 fewer account to worry about. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110989028209686081)
2023-09-01T09:55:36Z	****
I wrote a short blog post titled "I'm No Longer Streaming" [https://vigrey.com/blog/im-no-longer-streaming](https://vigrey.com/blog/im-no-longer-streaming) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/110989288198500326)
2023-09-03T07:55:26Z	****
Apparently the more I want snacks, the less stable my internet gets... good to know... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111000140275247311)
2023-09-04T07:46:33Z	****
I mayyyyy have set \`run "strongbad's\_email"\` as an alias for the email client I use... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111005767638822162)
2023-09-04T22:02:19Z	****
I wish there was enough demand for a large paperback book manual of the Go static library docs so I can have a physical copy of them... I'd just set the Go version to 1.20 and call it a day. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111009132679963651)
2023-09-05T22:04:00Z	****
No matter how many times I consciously tell myself otherwise, my brain always reads "HMU" as "How Mout You" instead of "Hit Me Up"... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111014801605185263)
2023-09-05T22:56:37Z	****
Working on a decently large rewrite of Bergelmir that will make it work much better as a static website/gopherhole/geminicapsule server. Unfortunately, that means the current config files will break. The bright side is that I'm likely the only person using bergelmir, so hopefully that won't be an issue. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111015008504536941)
2023-09-06T03:57:30Z	****
I wrote a new blog post titled "Taking Accountability for My Vanity .onion Address" where I talk a little bit about how I think it was morally wrong that I generated a vanity .onion address for my site. Sometime this month, I'll be changing the .onion address.

[https://vigrey.com/blog/taking-accountability-for-my-vanity-onion-address](https://vigrey.com/blog/taking-accountability-for-my-vanity-onion-address) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111016191629496062)
2023-09-07T03:01:44Z	****
Sorry WIRED, but you lost the privilege to run Javascript on my browser due to popup crap. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111021634664295835)
2023-09-07T16:30:04Z	****
Holy cow I'm just realizing how much of my website / gopherhole / gemini capsule was broken this entire time... I need to test things a bit still with the alpha version of 0.1.0 of Bergelmir, but hopefully quite a few issues on my site should be fixed in the next 2 days. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111024813154387040)
2023-09-08T02:35:10Z	****
It's very strange to me that a few folks in my town claim they "don't have a computer or use the internet" even though they're on their smartphone constantly and are using tiktok, snapchat, and facebook constantly. Heck, one of these people claimed they didn't use the internet at all while I was over at his place just minutes before using spotify to play music. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111027192525379951)
2023-09-08T10:39:51Z	****
Fun calendar nerd fact: The original leap day was February 25th (technically the day after February 24th), not February 29th. This was frequently handled by having two days in a row that were both February 24th. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111029098358046239)
2023-09-08T14:20:57Z	****
Made a new wallet based off of my favorite wallet that I have ever had. It's just a 3.5 inch by 2.25 inch piece of thick cardboard and 2 rubber bands. Super easy to replace parts of, is made of scrap material, and has a nice bonus of not being made of leather! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111029967777410312)
2023-09-08T14:37:42Z	****
I think recycling is important and everything, but I feel like there's a reason it's last in "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle". Would love to see the first 2 words be applied considerably more. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111030033644486303)
2023-09-08T23:39:37Z	****
Writing a very gross looking regular expression... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111032164512088608)
2023-09-08T23:53:59Z	****
Sorry... "gross looking regular expression" is a very redundant phrase :P ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111032220989360377)
2023-09-12T12:59:00Z	****
My web/gemini/gopher/finger server will be down for a bit today while I work on getting the new version of bergelmir and muninn up and running on the server. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111052294775497171)
2023-09-12T19:40:50Z	****
Link types on my gopherhole are quite broken as well... I'll fix that up tonight after I get some sleep. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111053874814582946)
2023-09-12T19:38:41Z	****
My site and git server are back up now. In the process of fixing a few things from my server, I appear to have broken plain http support though, but my site still works over https.

Too tired to figure it out right now though. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111053866393190859)
2023-09-16T00:44:23Z	****
Shanah tovah to my Jewish friends. May your year 5784 be a great one :) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111072055337384613)
2023-09-16T17:12:43Z	****
I ended up getting a cheaper phone plan that, instead of unlimited talk & text with no data, is 2500 minutes of talk & text with 500MB of data. I decided yesterday to test my website on my Nokia 225 4G candybar style feature phone and my site works impressively well on that 240px by 320px screen :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111075941614791838)
2023-09-17T15:05:31Z	****
I finally got my review of the game "Mysteries Under Lake Ophelia" written up.

[https://vigrey.com/games/mysteries-under-lake-ophelia](https://vigrey.com/games/mysteries-under-lake-ophelia) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111081103758722423)
2023-09-18T02:45:19Z	****
I think I saw a starlink satellite train. At about 8:20pm I counted 84 satellites pass by in a line, although I might have undercounted ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111083855482881997)
2023-09-18T03:56:48Z	****
What the heck, Washington State... why is your state gemstone Petrified Wood?... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111084136603540492)
2023-09-19T15:56:53Z	****
Mi sxatus kelkajn rimedojn por praktiki Esperanton sen bezoni retan konton ie. Mia Esperanto iom plimalbonigxas kun la tempo.

[#Esperanto](https://mastodon.social/tags/Esperanto) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111092630393440152)
2023-09-19T21:31:25Z	****
Have been trying to install void linux on my pi zero w v1.1 all day today and things seem to not work each time. Frustrating thing is I have no way to see what's wrong because I'm stuck doing this completely headless. I wish I could find my pi v1 so I could have some system that I can actually hook up to some sort of display... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111093945859161511)
2023-09-20T19:10:13Z	****
I really don't know what happened, but 100% of my raspberry Pis turned into crap since I used them. Tried multiple SD cards from multiple vendors, and multiple distros, and every single one of them have at least 3 or 4 major issues, usually involving the wifi or ethernet interface not wanting to start. The one pi I can consistently get wifi from has power issues...

I just wanted to be able to run my site on a low energy requirement server 😢 ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111099052896515433)
2023-09-22T04:55:59Z	****
I need to figure out iptables in the next day or so. Funnnn ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111107018571454809)
2023-09-23T02:01:00Z	****
My apologies if my site or git server are unavailable for some folks for a bit. Migrated servers. Unfortunately DNS propagation can take some time. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111111992827349199)
2023-09-23T02:48:50Z	****
Happy almost equinox!!! Almost exactly 4 hours away :O ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111112180910093568)
2023-09-23T07:04:22Z	****
"Welcome to the flipside", which is my way of saying "Happy Equinox". For the Northern hemisphere, welcome to the winter half of the year, and to the Southern hemisphere, welcome to the summer half of the year. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111113185719578282)
2023-09-24T07:34:25Z	****
and for a little bit of context, I had to add 3 more accounts, so going from 28 to 21 while adding 3 accounts is a 10 account difference :O ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111118966187714465)
2023-09-24T07:31:23Z	****
Quick update on my journey to reduce the amount of passwords I need to worry about. I'm now down to 21 and could possibly get that number down to 17 decently easily. Exceptionally minimalizing could get me down to 14, but some of those accounts are still important at the moment.

Wrote about lowering the amount of accounts I have to deal with at [https://vigrey.com/blog/password-fatigue-managing-fewer-passwords](https://vigrey.com/blog/password-fatigue-managing-fewer-passwords) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111118954226441365)
2023-09-24T07:44:45Z	****
As a matter of moral principle, I don't think I will ever allow myself to manage more than 30 accounts ever again. Yes, that means I will absolutely make a fuss whenever anything "requires" me to make an account to use a service, especially an "in person" service. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111119006811097764)
2023-09-24T08:02:59Z	****
I spent the last few months having everything be in light mode after about a decade of nonstop dark mode, and honestly, it's not that bad.

It's kind of nice not seeing "dark" all the time, especially considering my displays cause a little bit of an oxymoron by it being "dark light". Sure more modern and expensive displays have "true black", but mine don't. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111119078514192795)
2023-09-24T20:41:36Z	****
Website developers and designers, please consider not adding a sticky header to a site if the header is going to take up at least a third of the window height... I appreciate being able to see more than 4 lines of text at a time. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111122061469947542)
2023-09-25T04:27:47Z	****
I just set the rate of which my posts, boosts, and favorites get deleted to 2 days instead of 4 days. Hooray ephemerality :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111123894579977173)
2023-09-25T18:09:59Z	****
Welp, I can't print any black and white images anymore because I ran out of Magenta ink... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111127127645029932)
2023-09-25T18:11:16Z	****
Last color I ran out of was "photo blue"... which is some crap Canon decided to make to cause people buy more ink ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111127132654916747)
2023-09-25T19:47:49Z	****
I'm so glad my town's public library has printing and lamination services, and for quite cheap :D Printed out a few copies of my password/otp vault file format spec and a few copies of a page with QR code of my password vault on one side and QR code of my OTP vault on the other side. Got all the pages laminated :D

Now I can hand them out to a few folks to have as offsite backups just in case catastrophe strikes and I lose access to my computer and server. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111127512306304396)
2023-09-25T23:36:31Z	****
I like playing "Find the little pixel guys" when looking at large QR codes :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111128411603581314)
2023-09-26T02:27:20Z	****
Initially was going to host (mirror) all of the RFC .txt files on my web/gemini/gopher server, but realized that's about 490 MiB of content @\_@, quite a few of which are over 400 KiB in size. The average size is about 54 KiB in size, with the median being about 35 KiB in size.

I'll consider hosting them in time, but for now, I'll just have the text files stored on my computer for when I need them. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111129083295439302)
2023-09-26T03:36:17Z	****
Great news! My website works surprisingly well on the Mosaic 2 on classic Mac OS :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111129354392631543)
2023-09-27T01:42:39Z	****
[@mainframed767](https://infosec.exchange/@mainframed767) I see you're speaking at secretcon! I can't promise I'll be able to make it there, but I'll certainly try! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111134569907316229)
2023-09-27T04:49:18Z	****
The breaking changes are happening for 2 reasons.

\\* I'm self hosting this server, so I want to keep complexity down as much as possible for security reasons

\\* I want to be able to have the option to host everything on Plan9 if I so choose over time.

The changes will be mentioned at the bottom of the journal post in a sort of "TL:DR" section with bullet points. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111135303797090977)
2023-09-27T04:47:01Z	****
New Journal post on my site. I decided to call my "blog" a "journal" instead and there will be a few breaking changes as a result that will happen around November 1st if you're linking to my journal or following me over RSS

[https://vigrey.com/journal/important-breaking-changes-to-my-blog-and-rss-feed](https://vigrey.com/journal/important-breaking-changes-to-my-blog-and-rss-feed) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111135294869928348)
2023-09-28T02:55:47Z	****
I have thoughts... about minimizing reliance on the internet, about ephemerality on the internet, about rejecting Wirth's law... about building your own way out of Wirth's law, even if web browsers are impossible to build anymore...

I want to write some sort of post about all of these things, but I need to find a way to organize my thoughts about this.

I also with ActivityPub wasn't so darn inefficient... but the tradeoff for a "popular enough" federation is a fine enough tradeoff currently ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111140519801437948)
2023-09-28T07:03:08Z	****
I have replaced the vast majority of the images on my site with 1-bit dithered versions using Floyd-Steinberg dithering to save a considerable amount of bandwidth. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111141492361680630)
2023-10-02T00:27:54Z	****
I decided Garfield needs to be drawn this [#inktober](https://mastodon.social/tags/inktober) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111162587503609778)
2023-10-02T23:19:18Z	****
Second garfield [#inktober](https://mastodon.social/tags/inktober) drawing. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111167980043672869)
2023-10-03T21:11:49Z	****
Introducing the Garfia 3310 :D [#inktober](https://mastodon.social/tags/inktober) [#garftober](https://mastodon.social/tags/garftober) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111173141130867750)
2023-10-04T02:46:35Z	****
As a Minnesotan, I am very surprised that I had never heard of the term "Lutheran Binder" for recipes before. It's cream of mushroom soup, which is the magical ingredient that binds together all of the other ingredients of hot dishes found Minnesota Lutheran church cookbooks ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111174457440581128)
2023-10-04T06:36:31Z	****
Minnesota is currently holding public submissions for a new state flag and state seal design until the end of the month. They should totally pick my flag! As it stands, Ohio currently has the most unique state flag shape in the US. Minnesota can blow that shape out of the water with this amazing flag! Rectangles are boring anyways! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111175361587801262)
2023-10-04T06:43:47Z	****
Minnesota is currently holding public submissions for a new state flag and state seal design until the end of the month. They should totally pick my flag! As it stands, Ohio currently has the most unique state flag shape in the US. Minnesota can blow that shape out of the water with this amazing flag! Rectangles are boring anyways! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111175390150246140)
2023-10-04T21:02:02Z	****
I'd wear this toque [#inktober](https://mastodon.social/tags/inktober) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111178764927486304)
2023-10-05T20:11:35Z	****
Decided to add Sun and Moon phase dates/times to my site for years 2000-2099. So far there are only 2 resources at this site address, one is for Equinox/Solstice times and the other is for Moon Phase times. [https://vigrey.com/sun-moon](https://vigrey.com/sun-moon)

Planning on adding Solar and Lunar eclipse information sometime later today. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111184228852025588)
2023-10-05T20:11:35Z	****
Decided to add Sun and Moon phase dates/times to my site for years 2000-2099. So far there are only 2 resources at this site address, one is for Equinox/Solstice times and the other is for Moon Phase times. [https://vigrey.com/sun-moon](https://vigrey.com/sun-moon)

Planning on adding Solar and Lunar eclipse information sometime later today. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111184228852025588)
2023-10-05T20:22:45Z	****
I kind of feel bad that the moon phase page is about 250KB in size... that said, so many pages are minimum 2MB now, and at least the reason for 250KB of data is because of content data. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111184272809677317)
2023-10-05T22:40:21Z	****
Preparing Garfield as the Sun for the eclipse [#inktober](https://mastodon.social/tags/inktober) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111184813840829726)
2023-10-07T00:51:43Z	****
I'll need to update syzygy soon. The eclipse code is incorrect in it. I ended up figuring out the eclipse formulas from scratch today! With these formulas, I can determine if an eclipse is happening, if it's a partial eclipse or total eclipse at a particular second, and figure out when the maximum eclipse is. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111190992741789557)
2023-10-07T06:20:40Z	****
Who needs mashed potatoes with gravy when you can have mashed potatoes with cooked cabbage? :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111192286172982152)
2023-10-07T06:19:15Z	****
There have been a few things that I would have normally added a sauce for but have recently switched to adding some cooked cabbage for. I recommend adding cooked cabbage to things :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111192280637098384)
2023-10-07T06:41:34Z	****
Dang my town is frustrating... Third year in a row getting pulled over and questioned for over 20 minutes while walking to do ritual because the moon phase is 3rd quarter moon before Winterfylleth (Winter full moon)... As was the case these last 2 years, I am sober while doing ritual tonight. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111192368388746920)
2023-10-07T06:43:44Z	****
It wasn't even after sunset last year and still got questioned for about 40 minutes as to why I was walking outside... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111192376878738203)
2023-10-07T07:02:09Z	****
One day, when I'm supreme ruler of the world, I'll enact a 1 hour limit per day of the internet per person. 1 hour for gaming per day as well unless it's factorio, then only 30 minutes a day. Zork will get an exception. 2 hours of Zork a day. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111192449296985750)
2023-10-08T02:54:08Z	****
I updated syzygy to have more accurate eclipse detection, not only if the eclipse is visible "somewhere" on the globe at a particular time, but also if a specified local latitude longitude can see the eclipse at that particular time as well :D [https://vigrey.com/git/syzygy](https://vigrey.com/git/syzygy) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111197136367328555)
2023-10-09T22:12:30Z	****
Does anyone happen to have a Roaming form Gimmeghoul they are willing to trade me, even if it's just a touch trade? I don't have a smartphone and refuse to give Niantic my location information anyways, so I can't/won't play Pokemon Go to get it. [#PokemonScarletViolet](https://mastodon.social/tags/PokemonScarletViolet) [#PokemonGo](https://mastodon.social/tags/PokemonGo) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111207353600287489)
2023-10-11T04:39:46Z	****
I spent SO MUCH TIME this last week getting all of this worked out. I now have Solar and Lunar Eclipse data on my site for years 2001-2100, including the type of eclipse and the times of when the different phases start and end. I'll try to write a blog post about the sun-moon data I included on my site before the Solar Eclipse happens.

[https://vigrey.com/sun-moon/solareclipses](https://vigrey.com/sun-moon/solareclipses)

[https://vigrey.com/sun-moon/lunareclipses](https://vigrey.com/sun-moon/lunareclipses) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111214538693566578)
2023-10-11T04:42:37Z	****
As a reminder, my site is also accessible over the gopher and gemini, so I'm happy I could provide these resources over those protocols :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111214549911284706)
2023-10-11T11:20:45Z	****
I plan on porting Syzygy to Golang as I can easily compile Go programs in Plan9 and I have a lot more experience with Go. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111216115444991108)
2023-10-11T11:18:32Z	****
Syzygy has been updated again. This time to allow for fractional seconds and to remove a typo bug that put quotes around "true" and "false" for eclipse status. Also calculating more accurate tangent lines now for eclipse detection.

I also updated the moon phases, seasons, solar eclipses, and lunar eclipses pages on my site with more accurate times. I even managed to detect a few more eclipses, some of which timeanddate dot com doesn't even have mentioned :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111216106697536809)
2023-10-12T02:39:13Z	****
Quick few updates on my site

\\* Calculated more accurate solar and lunar eclipse data

\\* Calculated more accurate Solstice and Equinox data

\\* Calculated more accurate Moon Phase data

\\* Added "moon phase", "eclipse season", "lunar eclipse", and "solar eclipse" pages to my wiki

Instead of calculating data per second for the eclipses, solstices, equinoxes, and moon phases, I'm now calculating data per 0.000001 seconds. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111219726962078538)
2023-10-12T04:29:42Z	****
Quick rant:

I wish signal allowed registration without a smartphone and without a phone number.

I sort of understand the reasoning for requiring that back when they supported SMS messaging, but they no longer do.

Unfortunately I cannot securely set up signal-desktop in a way that I can relatively trust anymore, considering I no longer own a smartphone. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111220161416526182)
2023-10-12T05:32:24Z	****
A very fast way to make me stressed out and nervous while playing a horror game:

Have a menu for setting controller buttons and make sure there are buttons that say "Shoot" and "Reload".

Especially if I have played the game for over 2 hours and have not had to deal with any hint of combat. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111220407976536472)
2023-10-12T22:32:04Z	****
Making Supper in a Pumpkin today :D [https://vigrey.com/recipes/supper-in-a-pumpkin](https://vigrey.com/recipes/supper-in-a-pumpkin) Gonna make some Pumpkin Bread and Roasted Pumpkin Seeds tomorrow :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111224417465587322)
2023-10-12T23:52:58Z	****
I want an open spec similar to RSS or twtxt that lets folks share cooking recipes with each other and to the outside world. Sure, RSS will work for the "outside world" part, but it would be nice to specifically share recipes with friends as well in a way that doesn't require them to "follow" all of the person's recipes. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111224735560582182)
2023-10-13T05:13:40Z	****
Will be doing a journal post before the eclipse and then will be taking a few day break from the internet entirely ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111225996582781551)
2023-10-13T06:17:27Z	****
Hot take, these are the same folks [#yugioh](https://mastodon.social/tags/yugioh) [#frozen](https://mastodon.social/tags/frozen) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111226247422696387)
2023-10-14T02:59:41Z	****
Made some yummy and very moist (banana bread level moisture!) Pumpkin Bread today and then roasted some Pumpkin Seeds!

Pumpkin Bread Recipe: [https://vigrey.com/recipes/pumpkin-bread](https://vigrey.com/recipes/pumpkin-bread)

Roasted Pumpkin Seeds Recipe: [https://vigrey.com/recipes/roasted-pumpkin-seeds](https://vigrey.com/recipes/roasted-pumpkin-seeds) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111231132049880835)
2023-10-14T03:01:14Z	****
I finished up writing my latest journal post "Introducing Solar/Lunar Eclipse and Sun/Moon Phase Pages on My Site" to celebrate the upcoming Solar Eclipse! With that all done, I'm going to go offline completely for a few days to relax and recharge my brain.

Have fun with the Solar Eclipse! Don't look directly at the Sun! See you in a few days :)

[https://vigrey.com/journal/introducing-solar-lunar-eclipse-and-sun-moon-phase-pages-on-my-site.html](https://vigrey.com/journal/introducing-solar-lunar-eclipse-and-sun-moon-p ... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111231138142061033)
2023-10-17T23:19:44Z	****
Felt good not being online since Friday night. 8/10 experience, would recommend :) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111252916460496653)
2023-10-20T14:50:28Z	****
Heck yeah! Found a place decently nearby that brews, bottles, and sells mead in time for Winter Nights next weekend! :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111267900859726595)
2023-10-20T23:01:38Z	****
Anyone who doesn't beat Chill Penguin first is objectively wrong. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111269832169940067)
2023-10-21T20:50:39Z	****
Mead acquired! I'm now ready for Vetrnaetr (Winter Nights) next weekend! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111274979468502613)
2023-10-24T10:43:59Z	****
Fell into a little bit of a rabbit hole over the last day after learning about Plus Codes after a friend of mine sent me a link to a location via a link to Google Maps. I wanted to like it the concept of Plus Codes, but I couldn't because Google seems to be pulling a Google... Wrote a blog post as to why I can't like this project, at least as implemented by Google Maps.

[https://vigrey.com/journal/i-want-to-like-open-location-codes-plus-codes-but-i-cant](https://vigrey.com/journal/i-want-to-like-open-location-codes-plu ... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111289580889754653)
2023-10-25T01:35:47Z	****
\\* Get a new phone number

\\* Go to a local store that sells expensive things like best buy

\\* The cashier will ask you for your phone number because they're told they have to

\\* Suddenly you learn you have an account

\\* Say "I forgot my email address, could you please remind me what the email address for that account is?"

\\* Go to the site and click "Forget Password" and use the phone number only to recover the account

\\* Quickly change the email address...

Congrats, you now stole an account ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111293087573164537)
2023-10-25T01:33:05Z	****
Well, just had a big scare with an abandoned account. This time was Best Buy.

\\* I got rid of my phone number associated with the account more than 90 days ago.

\\* Someone got that number

\\* That person bought something at best buy

\\* I got suddenly got a "Here's a receipt from your recent purchase." email...

When I went to recover my account, I noticed that you could recover the account with a phone number only.

Big security issue pops into my head (this issue plagues other services too)

(1/N) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111293076954731531)
2023-10-25T01:38:35Z	****
Thankfully this person just bought some stuff at the store and likely didn't know they could steal my account easily. Also thankfully, even though the Best Buy online customer service is a chat bot, you can tell it "I want to talk to a person" and you'll be forwarded to a human customer service rep. Finally, thankfully I could delete my account using a customer service rep. So many services have 0 way to delete/cancel an account. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111293098620432566)
2023-10-25T01:42:34Z	****
As soon as I recovered my Best Buy account, I immediately changed my number to my current cell number. Strangely, I didn't need to confirm my phone number or confirm the account change with my email address.

I suspect a way to prevent a phone number takeover of my account is setting my account phone number to a 555-1XXX number with any area code. Turns out 555-1 might be a useful security tool in the US :D Same would be true for email by setting the email address to user@example.com

(4/4) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111293114273283718)
2023-10-25T03:46:18Z	****
I had to eat up some cooked butternut squash so threw some ingredients together to make some squash soup. I'm very happy how well it turned out :D I would have added carrots and maybe some other fresh veggies for a little bit of extra texture and fullness if I had some, but just used stuff I had in my kitchen. Decided to write my recipe down.

[https://vigrey.com/recipes/squash-soup](https://vigrey.com/recipes/squash-soup) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111293600796513600)
2023-10-26T07:14:12Z	****
I would keep everything in the wallet with1-3 rubber bands. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111300080603960706)
2023-10-26T07:13:28Z	****
I figured out what I want for Christmas. I can try to work something out with someone for this, but I think I need help to find someone to exchange with...

My means have gone done considerably over the last 3 years (sorry), so I can't promise anything good in exchange. I can maybe provide something using my knowledge.

I want a 3.5in x 2.25 piece of wood or a few that are 1-4mm in thickness. Preferably with rounded corners, but I can round the corners myself. They would be my wallet ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111300077723440414)
2023-10-26T07:15:43Z	****
I used to know folks who I could get scrap wood from that could work for this, but I just don't know who I can ask anymore for something like this... Too much time has passed in the wrong places. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111300086585137176)
2023-10-26T07:48:46Z	****
I hope to get my next journal post out before the full moon. It should be about trying to track time by first principles, mostly by tracking the sun, moon, and rotation of the starry night. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111300216529687883)
2023-10-26T09:33:22Z	****
I hope to do at least a few more Pamela Colman Smith tarot card designs in a gameboy style this new year. I just hope I can get the whole deck done in my lifetime now to put on a gameboy cartridge. I originally was wayyyyy too ambitious about how quickly I could/would do the pixel art. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111300627827767763)
2023-10-27T06:10:24Z	****
I wrote a new blog post before [#Winternights](https://mastodon.social/tags/Winternights) that might be a tad scatterbrained about an oath I am making to figure out time from first principles. The post is titled "Winter Nights New Year Oath - Determining Time From First Principles"

[https://vigrey.com/journal/winter-nights-new-year-oath-determining-time-from-first-principles](https://vigrey.com/journal/winter-nights-new-year-oath-determining-time-from-first-principles) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111305492014424448)
2023-10-27T23:06:03Z	****
To any [#pagan](https://mastodon.social/tags/pagan) folks in the Northern Hemisphere who might be celebrating, have a great Winter Nights! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111309485715126237)
2023-10-28T07:49:48Z	****
First night of Winter Nights and oh boy did Mother Nature figure out that "Winter" was involved... Thankfully no snow stuck on the ground here tonight at least, but we'll see about tomorrow... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111311545202689052)
2023-10-31T22:34:34Z	****
TRICKS OR TREATS!!! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111332011169765877)
2023-11-01T05:34:22Z	****
Can you hear it? Mariah approaches! "ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU!!!!!" ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111333661907533307)
2023-11-01T05:49:22Z	****
I'm not ready for October to be over... New challenge... No November November! :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111333720878429970)
2023-11-01T05:57:42Z	****
I do not know what vembering is, but I will try yet again this year to not do it this November! [#NoVemberNovember](https://mastodon.social/tags/NoVemberNovember) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111333753628600580)
2023-11-01T06:03:37Z	****
I need some stuffing for my blahaj... they're getting a bit worn out and more difficult to hug :( I could also use every human sending me a blahaj. I could use 8 billion more blahajes. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111333776921886725)
2023-11-01T12:14:50Z	****
Honk! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111335236570850763)
2023-11-02T14:54:38Z	****
As a nice side effect of the change, my home page should be a third as large in terms of bandwidth usage :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111341527252543544)
2023-11-02T14:52:47Z	****
Working on a new site design change. Didn't like the fact that some content was available on the HTTP(S) version but not the Gemini and Gopher versions, so working on making sure the only content difference between the HTTP(S) and Gemini/Gopher versions is the webring. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111341519984529191)
2023-11-03T10:30:46Z	****
Anyone else planning on celebrating the Unix timestamp 1700000000 at 2023-11-14 22:13:20UTC? We should all celebrate! :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111346152012839220)
2023-11-04T07:54:35Z	****
So while Unix Timestamp 1700000000 happens on November 14, 2023 at 10:13:20 PM UTC, it'll also be King Charles III's birthday... Just wanted to mention that strange coincidence ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111351200172627466)
2023-11-04T20:53:33Z	****
At least in most of the states in the US, tonight is the night to set the clocks back 1 hour as we switch back to Standard Time from Daylight Time. I just wrote a journal post titled "A Call to Get Rid of DST... and Time Zones", where I argue we should use UTC instead of time zones for situations where precise times are needed while also arguing that local areas should use solar time again. I even generated some graphs!

[https://vigrey.com/journal/a-call-to-get-rid-of-dst-and-time-zones](https://vigrey.com/journal/a-ca ... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111354263184724778)
2023-11-07T02:06:05Z	****
Have been seeing a lot of posts from people saying not to call things AI because they're not a General AI. I know I am ignorant on a lot of things, including a lot of machine learning methods (especially stuff figured out since 2013), but it feels a lot like moving the goal post to decide that machine learning isn't artificial intelligence because it's not a general artificial intelligence. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111366816749622070)
2023-11-07T05:19:11Z	****
I dislike the idea of shutting myself out so much for "social media" just so I don't have to deal with the annoying label... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111367576047838786)
2023-11-07T05:17:29Z	****
Strange question for folks on mastodon dot social in particular (although I suspect this is an issue on other instances as well)... Anyone else have a very hard time getting the notification label on the bell (the number in the rectangle) to go away? I set my notifications to only increment the label for mentions so I have to clear the notifications out, but I'm almost tempted to disable notifications for mentions to not have to deal with the label staying until I clear the notifications ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111367569353665465)
2023-11-07T08:31:46Z	****
Did you know that running a gopherhole ( [#gopher](https://mastodon.social/tags/gopher) server) makes you cooler by default?

Heck, I also immediately felt more attractive the moment I got my gopherhole running! You too can reap the benefits! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111368333310638562)
2023-11-08T00:05:14Z	****
Planning on implementing CALENDAR\_DOT\_EXE in [#uxn](https://mastodon.social/tags/uxn). Just gotta understand uxntal enough first :) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111372003879735884)
2023-11-08T14:16:45Z	****
Spent most of the last day and last night working on a tool to generate a monochromatic color palette that gets a WCAG 2.0 AAA rating for color contrast based off of a hue that I specify. The reason for this is to add some color to the http version of my site :D November is brown/orange to me, so the specified color is orange with a saturation of 80% :) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111375352181955611)
2023-11-12T09:28:13Z	****
Gonna take a break from the internet entirely again soon. This time also taking a break from locations and folks who have internet access so I can be fully offline. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111396866842842348)
2023-11-12T09:24:10Z	****
Unix epoch timestamp (in seconds) of 1700000000 quickly approaches... It's currently 1699781050. Party time soon! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111396850940406662)
2023-11-12T12:00:35Z	****
Have gotten considerably more requests to join the Blanket Fort Webring these last 2 weeks. You might notice that the webring is still only 3 sites. That's because so many of these requests end up being sites that just started and don't have original content. In some cases, absolutely nothing is at the site location because the domain or neocities account was just set up.

If you want to join the webring, please have original content. Recipes, short stories, a wiki, etc... just have some content ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111397465956065507)
2023-11-12T12:02:07Z	****
I plan to reject requests where the original content is just a blog as well, as I want other content besides blogs (a blog is fine, as long as you have other original content as well), but I haven't had to reject requests for only being a blog because so many of these requests end up being no original content, or in most cases, literally no content at all... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111397472015459262)
2023-11-12T19:27:29Z	****
Good news everyone! [https://facts.usps.com/mailing-potatoes/](https://facts.usps.com/mailing-potatoes/)

\> As with coconuts, potatoes can be mailed without a box. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111399223235495200)
2023-11-14T02:18:33Z	****
Unix Epoch Timestamp (in seconds) 1,700,000,000 quickly approaches!!! It occurs in about 20 hours. November 14th, 2023, 22:13:20 UTC

Be prepared to celebrate!!! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111406501970166654)
2023-11-14T22:13:20Z	****
HAPPY UNIX TIMESTAMP 1700000000 :D 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎊 🥂

[#Unixtime](https://mastodon.social/tags/Unixtime) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111411200062653059)
2023-11-16T02:12:39Z	****
I noticed a few days ago IRL while talking about Ghost Busters and how Ghost Busters 2 is proof to me that "you can't strike gold twice" that a lot of folks seem to have seen Ghost Busters 2, but mix the details of 2 in with 1, assuming all of the events happened in 1 instead.

Heard 3 different people mention along the lines of "that's the one with the marshmallow man part at the end" when I mention that 2 had the baby and the creepy man portrait. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111417803376460123)
2023-11-16T02:12:39Z	****
I noticed a few days ago IRL while talking about Ghost Busters and how Ghost Busters 2 is proof to me that "you can't strike gold twice" that a lot of folks seem to have seen Ghost Busters 2, but mix the details of 2 in with 1, assuming all of the events happened in 1 instead.

Heard 3 different people mention along the lines of "that's the one with the marshmallow man part at the end" when I mention that 2 had the baby and the creepy man portrait. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111417803376460123)
2023-11-16T08:33:38Z	****
Last post before I stop using Mastodon for a bit. I am working on going through the DLC of Outer Wilds.

I HIGHLY recommend playing through the game, whether you do the DLC or not. The DLC is so much bigger than I expected too.

Avoid spoilers if at all possible. This game's "skill" tree gain is knowledge, so spoiling will absolutely destroy the skill gain.

It will come out on Switch on December 7th. I suspect loading times will be a tad long on the platform, but the game is well worth it. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111419301494457385)
2023-11-16T09:44:26Z	****
If you have a Nintendo Switch and live in the US, I HIGHLY recommend picking up this combo pack while it's on sale for $1.99 [https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/mysterious-retro-games-bundle-switch/](https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/mysterious-retro-games-bundle-switch/)

So far my only 2 game reviews are about these 2 games from this pack. I spent $2.98 in total for these games.

[https://vigrey.com/games/fatum-betula](https://vigrey.com/games/fatum-betula) This game is sort of a logic "trade route" g ... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111419579839100748)
2023-11-16T11:09:43Z	****
Sorry, did another post! See yall soonish enough :) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111419915215115150)
2023-11-22T03:02:01Z	****
Well, I just learned the magic that is the Sensor Reheat button on the microwave at my place thanks to the new video by [@TechConnectify](https://mas.to/@TechConnectify) which has opened up a whole new world of reheating with less worry now! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Limpr1L8Pss](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Limpr1L8Pss) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111451971323637119)
2023-11-23T17:15:09Z	****
Happy big Snoopy balloon, Al Roker, Mariah Carey on a big platform vehicle, and football to those who celebrate! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111460988304631301)
2023-11-25T01:56:53Z	****
Well, time to start learning amateur taxidermy! Starting with a turkey wishbone and femur! And when I eventually get stumped, [@MLE\_online](https://social.afront.org/@MLE_online) will get to hear me complain and get confused! :P

Hooray! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111468702183810292)
2023-11-26T20:00:45Z	****
I told the snow to go away but it's not listening to me >:O ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111478626391169267)
2023-11-28T01:32:36Z	****
Finally wrote a shell function for updating my server that reinstalls nginx-mod-stream after updating everything else just in case nginx was updated.

Sorry my gemini capsule, gopherhole, and finger server weren't accessible for about 8 hours. They should be up and running again. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111485593591220569)
2023-11-28T02:17:23Z	****
turkey bone

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Successfully preserved and processed this wishbone! Tried to do a femur as well, but that was too ambitious for a first amateur taxidermy project, especially when it's really cold in the room that I'm doing this in. Pretty happy with this result though :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111485769737786169)
2023-11-29T12:12:41Z	****
Worked a bit on adding some NES development resources to my site. The resources can be found at [https://vigrey.com/nesdev](https://vigrey.com/nesdev)

The resources so far are a (PDF) schematic for an NES-NROM-256 cartridge board, instructions on programming an ATtiny13a as a CIC (region lockout) chip, and an image that shows the dimensions of an NES cartridge PCB (in mm).

[#nesdev](https://mastodon.social/tags/nesdev) [#nes](https://mastodon.social/tags/nes) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111493772856229282)
2023-12-01T01:44:54Z	****
Got a new Switch cartridge! You know what that means... GOTTA LICK THE CARTRIDGE! Switch games are not officially part of my collection until I have licked it!

For those who don't know, Nintendo Switch cartridges have a bittering agent to prevent kids from eating the cartridge. This does not stop strange adults from going out of their way to lick every cartridge though! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111502628914491280)
2023-12-01T06:30:50Z	****
Have been seeing a lot of folks praising some people in tech as though they were "rockstar heroes" to a worrying point. These people are probably good people, but we have been through this multiple times with bad people who were treated like "rockstar heroes" in tech. So much of what those "rockstars" say ends up being treated as gospel and people's entire personalities seem to follow being a fan/follower of that "rockstar".

Just be careful, folks. Hero worship is a risky and dangerous thing ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111503753219555214)
2023-12-01T08:10:01Z	****
Sort of reminds me of some of my favorite disconnected feeling writing in Portal 1 and Portal 2 ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111504143244449798)
2023-12-01T08:07:41Z	****
There's something very strange about social media and posting something like "Xyz really bad thing happened today 😢 " and getting a few "like" reacts.

Some social media sites like to be cute about it too... oh look, confetti...

There's something sort of absurd and comical about it in a "dark humor" kind of way?

The internet is weird. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111504134092091086)
2023-12-02T01:22:15Z	****
Painting my nails alternating red/green/red/green to get in the spirit of the month :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111508202132530994)
2023-12-02T04:21:23Z	****
I don't know if this is common for Twitch users logged in as well (I no longer have a Twitch account), but I just got 4 minutes and 45 seconds worth of pre-roll ads. Hopefully Twitch counts that towards the payout of the streamer ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111508906568012474)
2023-12-02T04:37:44Z	****
Nails painted, dried, and hands properly dithered!

Went with alternating red/green/red/green as mentioned in a previous post ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111508970804010277)