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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 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 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

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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

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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) 2023-12-03T04:02:48Z ****
What is your favorite Christmas song and why is it "Run Run Rudolph"? :) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111514495791020222) 2023-12-03T21:21:07Z ****
For some reason this made me think of you [@MLE\_online](https://social.afront.org/@MLE_online) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111518578578443744) 2023-12-07T03:02:14Z ****
My brother picked up The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for me last week and I started playing it this week. I have decided to call the game 'The Legend of "That was definitely not the intended solution... but hey, it worked"' because that's what has been happening a lot in my playthrough so far. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111536906875572566) 2023-12-09T08:55:07Z ****
I got the game on PS4 and played through it on there along with the DLC. I just want to know how the Switch port holds up essentially ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111549619113138933) 2023-12-09T08:53:32Z ****
I won't be playing Outer Wilds on Switch considering I have already played it and can't experience it the first time, but if yall have it on Switch, I want to ask you a few questions (don't worry, I won't spoil the game for you)

If you picked up Outer Wilds on Switch and started playing it, please get in touch with me. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111549612859564894) 2023-12-09T21:03:16Z ****
Spent the last 3 hours building a bot to tell me when new POKEY THE PENGUIN comics are out. HOORAY!!! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111552482297949581) 2023-12-09T21:21:45Z ****
If you love Christmas so much, why don't you merry it!? ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111552554943116741) 2023-12-10T08:35:07Z ****
I feel super flattered. A mostly lesbian friend of mine called me "Triple A". Partially because of the joke of Minnesota getting snow today so Triple A needs to be called to tow folks out of ditches, but also because she gets that I'm Asexual, Aromantic, and Agender. I appreciate the heck out of her! Her sense of humor, especially staying "on the bit", is excellent, so I am happy as heck about this. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111555202744419441) 2023-12-10T09:15:23Z ****
Watched the Rugrats Hanukkah episode with some friends tonight and can say we defeated the Meanie of Hanukkah again this year :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111555361048812029) 2023-12-11T17:25:45Z ****
Thinking about how different things would be if Tony Hawk owned Twitter instead of Elon Musk... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111562951606020190) 2023-12-14T04:42:56Z ****
I NEED HELP FROM [#MINNESOTA](https://mastodon.social/tags/MINNESOTA) FOLKS!!! Christmas is coming up soon and I am tasked to bring a hotdish to my brother's place. My brother's wife isn't from anywhere around here, so I want to make sure she understands how great hotdishes can be! I might just make a tatertot hotdish, but if you have any really good hotdish recipes that aren't tatertot hotdish (or is an insanely good tatertot hotdish), please share them with me! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111576939026059173) 2023-12-16T02:18:56Z ****
It's been about 19 years, but I'm crocheting again! Working on a Skjoldehamn hood. Last time I crocheted, I was in elementary school and my hands were much smaller, so it took me a few hours to figure out how the heck my long hands/fingers can hold the yarn to provide any tension.

Decided to learn the Celtic Weave crochet stitch for this hood! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111587697391521840) 2023-12-17T21:38:52Z ****
It saddens me that Wind Waker HD and Twilight Princess HD aren't on the Nintendo Switch. I have both games on the WiiU and they are excellent remasters! Would love for more folks to have the opportunity to play these great ports! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111597920774233574) 2023-12-18T16:42:07Z ****
Wrote a journal post titled "2023 Recap - A Year of Simplification" where I state changes that occurred this year for me, both big and small.

Overall, I'm proud of the changes!

Some things include

\\* I quit smoking

\\* Switched to a feature phone

\\* Self-hosting git server

\\* Went from over 150 passwords to 21 while also self hosting the password data

\\* Actually read some books cover to cover

\\* Self-hosting server from a raspberry pi I control instead of paying for a VPS

[https://vigrey.com/journal/2023- ... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111602416184473004) 2023-12-19T22:20:29Z ****
Look at my baby kitter! :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111609409031254108) 2023-12-19T22:30:42Z ****
First part of the Skjoldehamn hood crocheted. Time for the back square (same dimensions and crochet stitch, but gray instead of brown), then gotta spend a frustratingly long time on the main hood rectangle... REALLY hoping I can get this all finished before sunset on January 24th to have it done in time for Jolablot! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111609449158116783) 2023-12-20T15:57:45Z ****
Wrote a short journal post about the new Minnesota State Flag and Seal designs. I really like the seal design they picked. The finalized flag is... fine I guess... [https://vigrey.com/journal/new-minnesota-state-flag-and-seal-chosen](https://vigrey.com/journal/new-minnesota-state-flag-and-seal-chosen) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111613566327756589) 2023-12-20T17:09:36Z ****
The first image is the final flag design [#Minnesota](https://mastodon.social/tags/Minnesota) went with. I like my version a lot more (second image is my version) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111613848867483357) 2023-12-20T23:19:04Z ****
For those who want to celebrate the Winter Solstice, it fully occurs at about 2023/12/22 03:28, so about 28 hours and 9 minutes from now (currently 2023/12/20 23:19 UTC as I post this) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111615301662073817) 2023-12-22T18:47:10Z ****
RobWords released a video talking about the Shavian alphabet! I sent him an email a month or 2 ago suggesting he do such an episode (although I also recommended he look into the Deseret alphabet as well, which he doesn't in this video [maybe a later video he will?]) and I'm glad he ended up making the episode! :D [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D66LrlotvCA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D66LrlotvCA) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111625557145141617) 2023-12-22T18:44:41Z ****
[@shavian](https://polyglot.city/@shavian) Just finished watching the episode. Thank you for being a great resource for the episode! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111625547388230812) 2023-12-22T18:36:31Z ****
[@shavian](https://polyglot.city/@shavian) Ope, I just got to the interview portion :P I'm glad RobWords got interested in the alphabet and found my links to you to be useful :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111625515248245979) 2023-12-22T18:34:24Z ****
[@shavian](https://polyglot.city/@shavian) You might be getting a few more folks showing up at your site or this mastodon. I sent an email out to RobWords about a month or 2 ago to do a video looking into the Shavian and Deseret alphabets and the video is out now. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D66LrlotvCA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D66LrlotvCA) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111625506931793765) 2023-12-24T02:37:26Z ****
Made a different tatertot hotdish than the recipe on my site. If it's a hit, I'll be replacing the recipe with this new one. If it's not a hit, I'll just pretend it wasn't made at all :P

Also made the peanut butter bars as the recipe states on my site. Those are always a hit! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111633068596582922) 2023-12-25T04:20:27Z ****
My tater tot hotdish recipe was a hit today! I updated the recipe on my site to be this recipe.

[https://vigrey.com/recipes/tater-tot-hotdish](https://vigrey.com/recipes/tater-tot-hotdish) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111639135981562928) 2023-12-26T00:23:39Z ****
If you love Christmas so much, why don't you marry Christmas? ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111643867171323996) 2023-12-26T00:52:08Z ****
Very weird and warm Christmas in Minnesota here today. Hit 56F today and rained the entire day. I only remember experiencing 1 other green Christmas, which was 2 years ago, but it only hit about 44F that day.

We hit about 55F around this time last year and the year before (a few days after Christmas 2 years ago and December 21st last year) where we dropped to -5F that same day in less than 8 hour's time, so a bit nervous we're going to do that for a third year in a row... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111643979191063153) 2023-12-26T02:41:09Z ****
I miss when video game consoles had great startup music... BRING BACK THE GOOD INTENSE STARTUP MUSIC, SONY! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwln1ai\_DYU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwln1ai_DYU) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111644407865067880) 2023-12-27T03:31:41Z ****
I'm a little disappointed in Macaulay Culkin... he missed out on $1500 in Celebrity Jeopardy because he didn't know "Badonkadonk" as a term for butt... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111650268903978368) 2023-12-27T15:33:17Z ****
Saw someone post a pagan meme about wanting 13 months of 28 days each in the calendar because it would make the start of the year consistent and would align with the moon cycles...

Sorry, going to "well akshully" for a moment as a calendar nerd who follows a lunar calendar!

\\* From Earth, a full lunar cycle visually takes on average about 29.5 days, not 28 days

\\* 13 x 28 is 364, so you'd have to figure out the 1 or 2 extra days in a way that doesn't shift what day of the week the year starts ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111653106320490995) 2023-12-28T03:51:37Z ****
If I had way too much money, I'd make a machine that can accurately light unscented candles and a machine that can blow out candles so I can frequently smell my favorite scent throughout the day, which is blown out candles.

Every candle smells like a blown out candle when you blow it out! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111656009558169124) 2023-12-28T05:27:00Z ****
More than half way done in total with the biggest crochet project I have ever done :D A Skjoldehamn hood to wear during jólablot next full moon! Haven't crocheted in probably about 19 or 20 years. Only about 15-20 hours of crocheting away from finishing the project!

My right hand in particular is pretty excited to not be sore and swelled up from crocheting soon... :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111656384653044007) 2023-12-28T18:30:34Z ****
Another [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card done :D This time the Ace of Pentacles. I have nearly run out of all of the simpler designs... hoping to finish 1 card every week or 2 in 2024. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111659465677553509) 2023-12-28T20:07:48Z ****
Wrote a final journal post of the year talking about some things I hope to do in 2024. [https://vigrey.com/journal/hopes-resolutions-for-2024](https://vigrey.com/journal/hopes-resolutions-for-2024)

Those things are:

\\* Get to the point where I only use my home desktop on Sunday and only up to a few hours on Sundays

\\* Create secure authentication scheme that uses only paper and pencil

\\* Finish at least a few more Game Boy tarot card designs

The authentication scheme (basically trying to make a MAC) is probably ... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111659848053757586) 2023-12-28T22:09:23Z ****
Every deck of cards is simply a lasagna made out of card stock. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111660326170297860) 2023-12-29T01:47:03Z ****
HOORAY I FIGURED OUT A NICE WAY TO DETERMINE THE SOLAR TIME AT NIGHT AS LONG AS I CAN SEE THE STARS!!! :D

I now have Solar Noon and Solar Midnight figured out! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111661182044306849) 2023-12-29T06:30:12Z ****
In related to my last post mentioning that I can figure out when solar midnight is now... I want to get a tattoo that shows the setup that will be about 2.5 x 2.5in on the back of my right hand... I don't expect anyone to buy the tattoo for me, but it would be useful...

I plan to go west a few states in general... by foot... and this tattoo would help me navigate.

Thankfully this post will delete automatically after a little more than 2 days so I don't have to feel embarrassed by it. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111662295435404015) 2023-12-29T06:46:13Z ****
Related... if anyone wants to get me something for my birthday in a few months, I could really use a pocket knife (I'm outside often and don't have something like scissors to cut things when I need to, so a pocket knife could be extremely useful in those situations), and a harmonica (I suspect of every instrument, a harmonica is one I could learn, especially if it's all I have as entertainment) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111662358444641930) 2023-12-30T07:33:12Z ****
Weaving/binding threads tend to be a common theme in Norse magic and fate. I didn't expect to need so many different colors for my skjoldehamn hood, but being in a very tiny town with one general store that sells yarn means I get what I can get.

Hoping the necessity of different colors when they call is a part of the fate.

Gotta figure out how I want to handle the last 16 lines with 2+ more spools of different colored yarn. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111668205508517053) 2023-12-30T07:43:40Z ****
I may disagree with this other Vi about Pi (in terms of Pi vs Tau)... but I think they and I can both agree with their premise that Pi is only 12 digits long (including the initial 3). Sure, my Pi tattoo may be 16 digits long, but those other 4 digits in my tattoo's case are just a decoration of sorts. Ornamental, but serving no true purpose. :)

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmskjWp6Dpc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmskjWp6Dpc) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111668246639538262) 2023-12-30T08:05:06Z ****
Keep the fediverse fun during the new year transition, folks! I'm gonna take a short break from quite a few sites and services. See yall in 2024! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111668330952089222) 2024-01-01T08:43:43Z ****
I NOW OWN MICKEY MOUSE!!! Hooray Public Domain! :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111679807370123421) 2024-01-01T08:58:43Z ****
If you want to feel retro this year, use a 1996 calendar instead of a 2024 calendar. You could also use the 1968 calendar if you want to feel more retro than that. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111679866388621914) 2024-01-05T08:53:30Z ****
I'm kind of debating picking up a digimon virtual pet... I know I don't need one, but I want one >\_< ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111702495125616777) 2024-01-06T04:41:42Z ****
I want to pick up and play Tunic eventually. Not yet, but eventually. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111707167314828620) 2024-01-06T23:20:29Z ****
First [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card design of 2024 finished! The Ace of Cups! Based on the Rider Waite tarot deck designed by Pamela Colman Smith.

Not sure if I'll keep to 1 design a week, but I'm hoping to have at least quite a few cards finished by the end of 2024. Hoping to have the whole deck finished by the end of 2025 or 2026. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111711566532245183) 2024-01-10T02:32:59Z ****
Skjoldehamn hood fully crocheted! Now I just need to stitch the two 13x13 inch squares to the 15x60 inch rectangle then it'll be done :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111729310396769416) 2024-01-10T09:34:02Z ****
Finished crocheting my Skjoldehamn hood in time for jolablot! I still need to do blocking of this hood to give it a more even shape. The colors were not what I was hoping for initially, but oh well... that's fate for ya, throwing curve balls. I used what was available to me and I'm still happy with the result! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111730966052973370) 2024-01-11T01:55:10Z ****
Ordered a glow in the dark digimon vpet. Hopefully gonna get it in a few days!!!

Was considering getting a tamagotchi, but a digimon seemed cooler :) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111734824033175934) 2024-01-11T02:04:08Z ****
I'm saddened that "copy link" frequently means "copy a link that redirects to the link you are expecting that has tracking"... Woooo modern web! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111734859260362495) 2024-01-13T21:46:41Z ****
Another week, another [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card :D This time the 3 of swords because it looked easy. Based off of the Rider Waite tarot deck designed by Pamela Colman Smith. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111750833894514664) 2024-01-14T00:39:40Z ****
Quite a few folks will know who this is... suddenly felt inspired to do a pixel art project. Only this frame done so far. [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111751514083936054) 2024-01-14T02:59:45Z ****
Not sure why I felt the urge to make FL Chan able to spin with [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) limitations, but here yall go! :) Only the dizzy spinning animation. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111752064870427043) 2024-01-14T08:38:34Z ****
Please try to stay in a warm enough place, especially out of wind.

I helped a few folks home tonight in my small town. It's currently about -9F with windchills of about -40F here.

Get out of the wind no matter what. If you see folks in the wind, please help them out of the wind.

If you see someone talking too long at a store, no you didn't. Folks need warmth.

It's deadly outside for folks who aren't used to upper midwestern storms like this that are with home. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111753397186822101) 2024-01-14T09:02:43Z ****
If you see someone inside a building like a gas station or a Walmart for longer than you would expect, especially during these temps in the US, NO YOU DIDN'T. Be sure folks have access to warmth.

Do what you can to make sure folks are in shelter during this. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111753492116190575) 2024-01-15T04:20:17Z ****
As a Minnesotan, I'm legally required to complain about the cold temps we have. Currently -23C (about -9F) with a windchill of -34C (about -29F). Yuck! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111758043880252652) 2024-01-15T05:21:07Z ****
Finally set up an account on [gemini://bbs.geminispace.org](gemini://bbs.geminispace.org)

My goodness I enjoy the process of making an account there and in many [#gemspace](https://mastodon.social/tags/gemspace) [#gemini](https://mastodon.social/tags/gemini) capsules that support accounts. I wish the web had decided that client TLS certs are good enough for making accounts instead of needing a password.

I needed to make a password to add a second gemini client tls cert to the account, but the password by design is tem ... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111758283063696825) 2024-01-16T04:04:23Z ****
Mi finfine skribis retjxurnalan afisxon en Esperanto hodiaux! Mi esperas skribi almenaux 3 pliajn afiŝojn en Esperanto cxi-jare!

[http://vigrey.com/journal/mia-unua-retjxurnala-afisxo-en-esperanto](http://vigrey.com/journal/mia-unua-retjxurnala-afisxo-en-esperanto) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111763643640426144) 2024-01-16T05:33:41Z ****
Every once in a while I pop onto [http://lissaexplains.com](http://lissaexplains.com) and am happy to see the design is still almost perfectly the same as when I learned HTML from that site :) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111763994828415423) 2024-01-16T11:11:14Z ****
Working on a gemini client that does exactly what I want it to and nothing more :) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111765322094924733) 2024-01-17T02:57:37Z ****
Going to work on an online journal post about what things I like about the [#geminispace](https://mastodon.social/tags/geminispace) gemini protocol, some issues I think arose and will arise due to it (mostly due to the "tech" centric nature of the adopters of it) and how much of an issue that might end up being (at least for me), and how I feel about the protocol from a standpoint of "I don't own a computer and have to go to the public library to access the internet". ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111769043418686409) 2024-01-17T03:30:12Z ****
A goal of mine (possibly before the end of the year?) is to build an activitypub instance for myself from scratch that I can use instead of mastodon dot social. At that point, I can see how inefficient activitypub is for my needs (from what I have seen so far, it's quite inefficient, but might be reasonable enough that I can run my own instance if my follower count is low enough)

We'll see after I understand activitypub fully how much inefficiency I feel like dealing with. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111769171549983073) 2024-01-18T07:42:12Z ****
Not sure how long can keep up 1 gameboy tarot card design per week. Will try though. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111775824783919331) 2024-01-19T00:25:36Z ****
What started as a problem of drawing on a POSIX terminal ended up turning into figuring out line breaking and draw widths of unicode characters... Woooo! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111779770333672288) 2024-01-19T03:58:47Z ****
Gonna make a tavern in space called "2C". 0x2C is the USB HID scan code for the "Space Bar" :3 ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111780608590167696) 2024-01-19T09:29:18Z ****
At no point was I around the machines. The biggest machine I had to deal with was one of those workstation cloud station things that weighed like 1 pound or the 21 inch monitor attached to that workstation that probably weighed like 5 pounds. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111781908221047592) 2024-01-19T09:27:23Z ****
Was suddenly reminded that I had to wear steel-toed boots for work almost a decade ago even though I sat at a desk and did programming because I was part of the "engineering team". Everyone in the "engineering team" had the same uniform requirements ta that job and some other people in engineering worked with large machines. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111781900691171176) 2024-01-19T13:08:40Z ****
Welp, managed to port wcwidth() and wcswidth() to [#golang](https://mastodon.social/tags/golang) in order to get a TUI program I'm working on to work nicely... Trying to make this all work with 0 dependencies and so far managing it!

I suspect I might end up running into trouble for defining SOFT HYPHEN as a 1 terminal cell wide character... We'll see :) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111782770804122967) 2024-01-19T13:14:39Z ****
MY GLOW IN THE DARK DIGIMON V-PET IS OUT FOR DELIVERY!!!

I have an ESP32 Devkit that I'd like to turn into an A-COM device to interface with the Digimon V-Pet at some point. Looks like I need to git gud enough at hardware to try and make that happen. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111782794358957056) 2024-01-19T21:51:10Z ****
LOOK AT MY BABY BOY!!! [#digimon](https://mastodon.social/tags/digimon) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111784825379804375) 2024-01-21T04:09:06Z ****
I think I made a working board to interface with 2 and 3 prong [#digimon](https://mastodon.social/tags/digimon) vpets with a Raspberry Pi Pico. We'll see I suppose... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111791973737802582) 2024-01-21T04:19:58Z ****
Before someone mentions that my circuit is horrible, blame it on my lack of electronics knowledge and also blame it on the A-Com device circuit [https://dmcomm.github.io/guide/nano/](https://dmcomm.github.io/guide/nano/) :P ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111792016500900834) 2024-01-21T09:22:04Z ****
Another week, another [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card design. I'm running out of "easy" designs to work with...

8 of Wands this time around ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111793204416004142) 2024-01-22T23:15:21Z ****
Making some homemade soup stock today, then some homemade bread and butter tomorrow, all in preparation for jolablot (yule feast) Wednesday night!. Also going to try lactofermentation of some cucumbers from the store!

Using the lactofermentation guide from GrimGrains by HundredRabbits. Thanks for all the food prep guides [@rek](https://merveilles.town/@rek) and [@neauoire](https://merveilles.town/@neauoire) ! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111802143292621305) 2024-01-23T10:09:41Z ****
The 3 jars of sliced cucumbers I'm attempting to lactofermentate are set up. Probably gonna try some mushrooms and onions as well. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111804716248355632) 2024-01-23T23:09:42Z ****
Butter making time! My arms are gonna be STRONK! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111807783432724006) 2024-01-24T06:36:30Z ****
Gonna try making some homemade artisan bread before sunset to go with homemade lightly salted butter, some soup with homemade soup stock/broth, and a venison roast to celebrate Yule! Also have some mead ready for dinner and ritual!

If these recipes work out, I'll try to add them to my site. I hope my bread turns out as yummy looking as the bread that you have made [@MLE\_online](https://social.afront.org/@MLE_online) !!! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111809540285115520) 2024-01-24T23:56:09Z ****
The bread didn't turn out... Roast and soup turned out great though! The land spirits will gladly accept the bread! The chubby squirrels and blackbirds will be happy to be even chubbier :P

Time for me to enjoy the spoils of my labor and some mead! Skol! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111813628369811316) 2024-01-25T07:29:54Z ****
If you are not familiar with Salvatore Ganacci, please watch these 2 videos. Please watch "Fight Dirty" first, the anime looking one, which is the first of the 2 links I will be posting. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZiaXEIQgkE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZiaXEIQgkE) and the second link is "Step Grandma, which I recommend after seeing "Fight Dirty". [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StYkb5kbM3o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StYkb5kbM3o) 1o57 introduced me to this musician (I hope 1o57 is doing well... I have ... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111815412579033746) 2024-01-25T08:59:31Z ****
I may have failed at making bread this time, but I will succeed eventually... folks incredibly long before us have successfully made bread and I will successfully make bread too. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111815764968993419) 2024-01-25T09:43:36Z ****
One of the Yule Lads licks spoons. I don't know if the Yule Lads exist, but I licked some spoons while making food for Yule over the last day ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111815938321722689) 2024-01-25T10:32:29Z ****
There is even a "Bowl licker" Yule Lad! I licked a bowl over the last day! :O ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111816130501939503) 2024-01-26T03:29:12Z ****
New [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card a little early. The 2 of Swords! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111820128398294574) 2024-01-27T03:40:51Z ****
Just finished writing a journal post about my thoughts on the Gemini Protocol after a year. The last section "Gemini in terms of not owning a computer (using the public library computer)..." was the part I wanted to write about the most and is a discussion I'd really like to see had about how some gemini capsules are and could be set up [https://vigrey.com/journal/thoughts-on-the-gemini-protocol-after-a-year](https://vigrey.com/journal/thoughts-on-the-gemini-protocol-after-a-year)

[#gemini](https://mastodon.social/tags ... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111825836518714651) 2024-01-30T04:04:59Z ****
Gameboy pixel art of "The Star" tarot card has nonsexual nudity

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Another [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card design! This time "The Star" ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111842918347699886) 2024-01-30T05:41:59Z ****
Heard a fun quote today from Hank Green! "It's wild to be living in a world where Google has gotten worse for the last like 10 years in a row and then got like way worse all of a sudden." ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111843299808472356) 2024-01-30T14:02:52Z ****
Working on making sure my site can be downloaded and navigated easily for those who want an offline version of my site. A bonus of setting things up this way is that other static site servers could be used if I so wish. Will take possibly a few days. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111845269318279583) 2024-01-31T02:24:01Z ****
Another [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card! This time it's the 5 of cups! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111848183650077369) 2024-01-31T03:00:10Z ****
That's me when I wear a long cloak and accidentally knock over 3 of my 5 cups in front of a stream near a bridge... :( ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111848325788526459) 2024-01-31T03:11:58Z ****
Assuming I keep up the general pace of at least 1 [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card a week. I should only have to make 15 extras throughout the year to have the designs all finished up by the start of 2025! :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111848372229043169) 2024-01-31T05:36:09Z ****
My web/gopher/gemini server will be down for a bit while I work on updating a few things to make the site more "offline" accessible.

Hopefully things go smoothly for this update :) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111848939149977653) 2024-01-31T12:25:30Z ****
New journal post about trying to make the web version of my site "offline accessible". Working on getting a ZIP file version of my website or maybe a git version set up.

Spent the last few days making sure the links in my website are all relative links and point to full file paths so a downloaded version of my whole site can be navigated with a web browser without the need for a web server.

[http://vigrey.com/journal/site-update-offline-accessibility.html](http://vigrey.com/journal/site-update-offline-accessibility.ht ... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111850548754012965) 2024-02-01T08:34:05Z ****
It's very weird outside right now where I'm at. It's silent hill levels of foggy, but when I look up, the sky is very clear and I can see the stars very clearly. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111855301156587407) 2024-02-02T06:09:20Z ****
Unfortunately I closed the "Who To Follow" thing before I could take a screenshot of it.

If they push things like this to get engagement and follow numbers up, I suppose it'll inspire me to make my own activitypub instance sooner.

I don't like the idea of the [#fediverse](https://mastodon.social/tags/fediverse) pushing an "algorithm" on folks. That twitter crap is one of the reasons I liked being here on mastodon instead. I block the /explore link because I don't want to deal with an "algorithm" to tell me how to see ... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111860394294612767) 2024-02-02T06:03:26Z ****
I just saw a "Who To Follow" thing in my mastodon "timeline"... Not a fan... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111860371060396685) 2024-02-02T19:47:02Z ****
FINALLY DONE WITH MY AND MY FOLKS' INCOME TAXES! Decided to do them by hand and mail them this year. I'm so sick and tired of writing my dead name and my folks' names and our social security numbers like 80 billion times, but at least I'm done for the year (hopefully).

I can't believe we're at the point now where online tax services are more complicated than just doing the tax returns manually... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111863609562288901) 2024-02-05T10:17:38Z ****
Another week, another [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card. This time it's The Tower. Was more difficult for me to get right than I thought it would be. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111878357524377967) 2024-02-05T18:08:15Z ****
Another week, another [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card. This time it's The Tower. Was more difficult for me to get right than I thought it would be. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111880208079334398) 2024-02-06T10:15:07Z ****
Designed a back design for my [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card series, heavily inspired by one of the more common Rider Waite deck backs. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111884009959009133) 2024-02-06T20:39:33Z ****
When using ghostscript on linux, the resulting PDF is only slightly larger than the original gemtext file! I highly suspect the eventual Plan9 version of this program will result in similarly sized PDFs ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111886465331326363) 2024-02-06T20:30:35Z ****
I have been working all night on a program to convert Gemtext files into PDFs. Hoping to have it finished soon. It will have the option of 1 or 2 column PDFs to utilize the page real estate better. Currently it can only read local gemtext files, but I will be adding support to grab a gemtext file from a gemini address and even an option to link to a TLS client certificate when grabbing the gemtext file from the gemini capsule. Will utilize \`groff/troff\`. [#GeminiProtocol](https://mastodon.social/tags/GeminiProtocol) [ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111886430078798497) 2024-02-07T07:52:23Z ****
I just read the words "using the same HTTP that the Internet is based on."... Woo tech writers. I can't wait until a linguistics writer writes "using the same English that Language is based on." ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111889111008811450) 2024-02-07T13:27:32Z ****
Had some of the onions and 1 slice of cucumber I have been lacto fermenting for a bit as a taste test. They're pretty good :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111890428862654960) 2024-02-07T21:34:02Z ****
Not sure if I will get any answers out of this, but hoping I do. Does anyone happen to know of a good inexpensive-ish 3 button corded USB mouse that doesn't have a scroll wheel? I very specifically do not want the third button to be a scroll wheel.

My old USB mouse is starting to be incredibly inconsistent with right and middle click (it has a scroll wheel) and that's making using plan9 considerably more difficult. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111892341890494541) 2024-02-08T14:23:13Z ****
I just released my gemtext/plaintext to pdf converter program for Linux called "gmi2pdf" that uses groff to convert the gemtext/plaintext file/resource to a PDF file.

The source can be found on my git server.

[https://vigrey.com/git/gmi2pdf](https://vigrey.com/git/gmi2pdf)

[#GeminiProtocol](https://mastodon.social/tags/GeminiProtocol) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111896310148756127) 2024-02-08T19:41:32Z ****
Another [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card design down! This time the 2 of Pentacles!

Also changed the palette of these to the gameboy palette used on the Nintendo Switch gameboy emulator.

I hope yall aren't getting sick of these posts. I'm trying to get all 78 cards done by the end of the year to start working on a [#homebrew](https://mastodon.social/tags/homebrew) gameboy rom that will utilize all of these designs ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111897561795803144) 2024-02-09T11:41:26Z ****
Running out of the "easy" illustrations... Another [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card design! This time the Page of Cups!

I want to watch a Shrek-like movie where instead of Shrek and Donkey going on an adventure, it's this person and the fish in their cup. Get on it, DreamWorks! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111901336305130388) 2024-02-09T11:44:37Z ****
Running out of the "easy" illustrations... Another [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card design! This time the Page of Cups!

I want to watch a Shrek-like movie where instead of Shrek and Donkey going on an adventure, it's this person and the fish in their cup. Get on it, DreamWorks! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111901348835851474) 2024-02-09T13:48:31Z ****
Just finished up the 8 of Cups [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card! Going to try and do 2 more cards today, making a total of 4 cards! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111901836003053653) 2024-02-09T16:10:22Z ****
Gameboy Tarot Card "The World" design has bare breasts. Nonsexual pixel art nudity due to the card design.

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3rd [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card design I did today! This time it's "The World".

That makes 20 of 78 finished so far! Hooray! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111902393779241973) 2024-02-09T18:22:53Z ****
Gameboy pixel artwork of the "Judgement" tarot card. Has nonsexual nudity with 3 butts visible along with the side of a boob

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4th [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card made today. Today has been a very busy day! This card is "Judgement". ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111902914848108980) 2024-02-09T18:48:10Z ****
I really want to see a version of Pamela Colman Smith illustrated "Judgement" card from the Rider Waite [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) deck that has Squidward playing his clarinet instead of the angel playing a horn. [#artists](https://mastodon.social/tags/artists), please make that happen! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111903014300681232) 2024-02-09T19:30:56Z ****
I looked back at my chat history with a friend I shared my first [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card design with and it turns out I did the first design on February 10th, 2022. That means I have been working on this project for 1 day shy of 2 years exactly. Pamela Colman Smith took 6 months to get all 78 designs done. I'm hoping to get the last 57 designs done in a little less than 11 more months. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111903182457898279) 2024-02-10T06:55:05Z ****
I have tried playing DnD with a group 2 times now and didn't jive well with them. Also realized I wasn't big into video game versions of RPGs with the exception of game mechanics. I think I figured out my problem. I'm just not into roleplaying. I like figuring out min-max builds, but I not make-believing a story with other folks or even with a computer.

I wish I liked roleplaying enough to play a DnD campaign. Heck, this seems to impact my ability to play a bunch of multiplayer games at all. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111905872628981914) 2024-02-10T07:04:27Z ****
Considering the number is over 5 trillion... I should probably date a multi-billionaire so I can eat weird things. Anyone friends with any single multi-billionaires who are willing to date an ace person who just wants to eat weird things? They won't be able to "score" with me, but I'm willing to tell them cheat codes to old Nintendo games... I feel like that's the same level of value! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111905909495205698) 2024-02-10T07:13:08Z ****
I would like to see some fun "video game RPG broken min-max build" challenges on mastodon akin to the madness that is code golf. As a binary code golfer who plays video games, I feel like you might at least slightly be on board with the idea [@netspooky](https://haunted.computer/@netspooky) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111905943587251250) 2024-02-10T07:18:03Z ****
There are 2 insanely intelligent types of folks I wish I were... a university faculty glass blower and a lense crafter. The people that work with glass are frequently amazing polymaths that impress the heck out of me. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111905962931182487) 2024-02-11T08:29:09Z ****
[@Hempuli](https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@Hempuli) I'm pretty sure I know what caused it... Have been playing custom levels in baba is you and a few horror games... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111911904869526207) 2024-02-11T08:27:53Z ****
[@Hempuli](https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@Hempuli) I had a horror dream involving baba for some reason earlier in the day. In my dream I was minding my own business outside in the middle of the night, then I saw the words "Baba has awakened". Not long after I saw "Baba is approaching". While I was sprinting trying to get out of where I was, I saw "Baba is here" as the sky turned incredibly red. As terrified as I was during the dream for some reason, I'd play a baba horror game. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111911899845910584) 2024-02-11T17:51:05Z ****
I think the US really has a shot of winning the Super Bowl this year ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111914114461340341) 2024-02-12T14:05:52Z ****
[@Dio9sys](https://haunted.computer/@Dio9sys) 𐑔𐑨𐑙𐑒𐑕 𐑓 𐑞 𐑜𐑦𐑑𐑐𐑨𐑚 𐑤𐑦𐑙𐑒 𐑑 𐑞 𐑒𐑰𐑚𐑹𐑛 𐑤𐑱𐑬𐑑𐑕. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111918891174431612) 2024-02-12T18:19:57Z ****
Another [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card done! This time it's the "Wheel of Fortune" card.

11 out of 22 Major Arcana cards are done now! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111919890239099536) 2024-02-13T00:20:17Z ****
𐑲 𐑔𐑦𐑙𐑒 𐑲 𐑒𐑱𐑥 𐑳𐑐 𐑢𐑦𐑔 𐑩 [#𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯](https://mastodon.social/tags/%F0%90%91%96%F0%90%91%B1%F0%90%91%9D%F0%90%91%BE%F0%90%91%AF) 𐑒𐑰𐑚𐑹𐑛 𐑤𐑱𐑬𐑑 𐑞𐑨𐑑 𐑲 𐑤𐑲𐑒, 𐑚𐑱𐑕𐑑 𐑣𐑧𐑝𐑦𐑤𐑦 𐑪𐑯 𐑞 ·𐑛𐑩𐑝𐑹𐑨𐑒 𐑒𐑰𐑚𐑹𐑛 𐑤𐑱𐑬𐑑. 𐑑𐑰𐑥 𐑑 𐑥𐑱𐑒 𐑞 «XKB» 𐑤𐑱𐑬𐑑! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111921307165253017) 2024-02-13T15:03:01Z ****
BEHOLD MY NERD POWERS! This is the Shavian keyboard layout I'm working on at the moment. Heavily inspired by the Dvorak keyboard layout.

I call it the "Grevian Keyboard Layout" (𐑜𐑮𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯 𐑒𐑰𐑚𐑹𐑛 𐑤𐑱𐑬𐑑)

[#𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯](https://mastodon.social/tags/%F0%90%91%96%F0%90%91%B1%F0%90%91%9D%F0%90%91%BE%F0%90%91%AF) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111924778183144732) 2024-02-13T19:13:22Z ****
[@pokeythepenguin](https://kolektiva.social/@pokeythepenguin) Considering you already have a link to this mastodon account on your site, possibly consider adding a \`rel="me"\` tag to the link as shown below? Lets you verify your address on mastodon and some tools use it to automatically detect if someone running a site has a mastodon account :)

POKEY ON MASTODON! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111925762628452007) 2024-02-13T20:46:31Z ****
Now that I have a Shavian keyboard layout that I feel relatively comfortable with, I am starting a project to transliterate a few English translations of the Havamal to the Shavian alphabet. This will take me a while.

Doing the H. A. Bellows translation first, then the Lee M. Hollander translation, then the Olive Bray translation. Hoping to do 1 full transliteration per week.

[#𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯](https://mastodon.social/tags/%F0%90%91%96%F0%90%91%B1%F0%90%91%9D%F0%90%91%BE%F0%90%91%AF) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111926128894907146) 2024-02-13T23:00:03Z ****
Making some sauerkraut today! Sick of chopping cabbage, so I'll make more tomorrow instead of all today. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111926653961143423) 2024-02-14T19:13:37Z ****
I wonder how reasonable it would be for a team of folks to take a giant flaming sword to 90%+ of firefox's codebase to make a browser that could last a few years without needing to be updated. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111931425884864307) 2024-02-14T19:12:33Z ****
"You need to keep your browser up to date to keep you protected from browser exploits."

This would be a lot less of an issue if browsers didn't feel the need to keep adding features. I want a browser that's firefox version 3.5 with some extra fluff 3.5 had removed. Add support for TLS 1.2 and 1.3 and possibly WebAuthn support for others and I'll be happy. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111931421719255410) 2024-02-17T18:19:58Z ****
I'm almost always at least a little entertained when I see posts on social media sites that go "WHY IS NOBODY TALKING ABOUT THIS!?" where they link to an article by CNN or Reuters ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111948201903518630) 2024-02-19T01:32:51Z ****
Another week, another [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card finished! This time it's the 4 of pentacles! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111955566379589473) 2024-02-19T04:10:19Z ****
I hope you all wished [@pokeythepenguin](https://kolektiva.social/@pokeythepenguin) a happy birthday!

[#Pokey](https://mastodon.social/tags/Pokey) [#birthday](https://mastodon.social/tags/birthday) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111956185536670382) 2024-02-20T00:24:41Z ****
Making chili for my first time today to use up some dry pinto beans I bought a week ago. Hoping it turns out!!! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111960960602405311) 2024-02-20T05:50:59Z ****
The beans took SO LONG to cook. The chili turned out pretty decent! The liquid part was mostly some onion soup stock I made by boiling a bag full of onion scraps from chopping up 4 pounds worth of small/medium yellow onions a few days ago. Next time I'll cut up a few more jalapenos for flavor instead of only 2. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111962243666701861) 2024-02-21T21:14:16Z ****
𐑤𐑫𐑒𐑕 𐑤𐑲𐑒 𐑞 𐑯𐑧𐑒𐑕𐑑 𐑚𐑫𐑒 𐑲𐑤 𐑚𐑰 𐑮𐑰𐑛𐑦𐑙 𐑦𐑟 𐑞 [#𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯](https://mastodon.social/tags/%F0%90%91%96%F0%90%91%B1%F0%90%91%9D%F0%90%91%BE%F0%90%91%AF) 𐑑𐑮𐑨𐑯𐑟𐑤𐑦𐑑𐑼𐑱𐑖𐑩𐑯 𐑝 «𐑞 𐑕𐑑𐑮𐑱𐑯𐑡 𐑒𐑱𐑕 𐑝 ·𐑛𐑼. 𐑡𐑧𐑒𐑩𐑮 𐑯 ·𐑥𐑼. 𐑣𐑲𐑛». 𐑑𐑤𐑲𐑦𐑙 𐑑 𐑜𐑧𐑑 𐑚𐑧𐑑𐑼 𐑨𐑑 𐑮𐑰𐑛𐑦𐑙 𐑒𐑪𐑯𐑑𐑧𐑯𐑑 𐑤𐑦𐑑𐑩𐑯 𐑦𐑯 𐑞 𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯 𐑨𐑤𐑓𐑩𐑚𐑧𐑑.

Looks like the next book I'll be reading is the [#Shavian](https://mastodon.social/tags/Shavian) transliteration of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde". Trying to get better at reading content written in the Shavian alphabet. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111971536506595488) 2024-02-22T08:12:52Z ****
Enjoying time listening to this wonderful mashup of Everything In Its Right Place and Maiden Voyage. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z\_5Q8jPNnvw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_5Q8jPNnvw) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111974126230713097) 2024-02-24T04:21:55Z ****
Enough with the pronunciation arguments about gif... Can we temporarily set aside our differences to face the more pressing gif matter of online services calling video files (usually MP4 but sometimes webm or other video files) gifs? That sparkling Tweety bird image you had on your MySpace page sure as heck wasn't an mp4 file, no matter how you pronounced gif!

AND MY AXE!!! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111984542704737268) 2024-02-25T08:40:11Z ****
My birthday is coming up in the middle of April. I know what I want for my birthday... I want recipes! recipes yall have actually made! I am nervous looking up recipes now because they're either from the second half of 2022 onward or they are backdated. Either way, there are a lot of ChatGPT recipes and they can be either not good or actually dangerous... I want recipes you have made because I know it'll be good and safe. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111991220535414223) 2024-02-25T08:50:49Z ****
I went to a bar tonight and noticed a couple of rubber bands on the floor. I picked up the 2 I initially saw, then started finding more on the floor. I now have 31 extra rubber bands... I assume someone bought a package of rubber bands and folks started shooting them at each other, but I now have 31 rubber bands from whatever happened. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111991262356281287) 2024-02-25T20:35:42Z ****
Another week, another [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card! This time I got the 3 of Wands made :D

24 our of 78 designs done! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111994034075754535) 2024-02-25T20:38:37Z ****
Another week, another [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card! This time I got the 3 of Wands made :D

24 out of 78 designs done! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111994045584942811) 2024-02-26T02:36:23Z ****
Another [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card done. The Moon! This one was a bit more complicated to get done than I expected it to be.

25 out of 78 done! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111995452369559770) 2024-02-26T03:48:05Z ****
Fun fact! Night time is just a "you" eclipse :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111995734322307597) 2024-02-26T05:35:20Z ****
Fun astronomy fact: In the Northern Hemisphere, people tend to call the Winter Solstice the "Shortest day of the year", but if you define a day as the period of time it takes between 2 solar noons, the Winter Solstice tends to be one of the longest days of the year, at about 24 hours 0 minutes and 29 seconds long.

The shortest solar day tends to be around September 17th at 23 hours 59 minutes and 38 seconds long. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111996156010321128) 2024-02-26T05:41:04Z ****
Fun astronomy fact: In the Northern Hemisphere, people tend to call the Winter Solstice the "Shortest day of the year", but if you define a day as the period of time it takes between 2 solar noons, the Winter Solstice tends to be one of the longest days of the year, at about 24 hours 0 minutes and 29 seconds long.

The shortest solar day tends to be around September 17th at about 23 hours 59 minutes and 38 seconds long. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111996178560942363) 2024-02-26T08:10:57Z ****
After calculating the equation of time for every day at 12:00UTC starting in 1900 for 200 non-leap years and averaging the value for each day, the longest solar day on average is on Christmas Eve at about 24h 00m 29.829081s long and the shortest solar day on average is on September 18th at about 23h 59m 38.636307s long. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/111996767916246352) 2024-02-27T08:30:08Z ****
We'll see how ambitious I am about the gameboy tarot card project soon enough. Hoping to get to the point where I only need to do 1 card per week to finish all 78 before the end of 2025. Averaging 3 per week (with the exception of 2 per week) this month can get me to that point, but I'm not sure I'll have that much motivation. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112002505643257781) 2024-02-27T21:39:59Z ****
Finished another [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card! This time it's The [#Empress](https://mastodon.social/tags/Empress) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112005611487733299) 2024-02-28T00:24:30Z ****
Hoping to get all of the Major Arcana cards done by the end of March! Only 9 Major Arcana cards left! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112006258375412812) 2024-02-28T03:03:38Z ****
2nd [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card done today! :D The Emperor! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112006884122479819) 2024-02-28T05:53:30Z ****
Finally figured out the rules for a Tarot Card solitaire card game called "The Fool's Journey" :D Played 2 games. Lost the first one only 28 cards through and just barely won the second game! My magpie oracle bag now has 25 pennies in it just in case I want to play again :) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYmK23QAFZg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYmK23QAFZg) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112007552096143086) 2024-02-28T11:37:42Z ****
Work in progress mockup, but currently working on an [#NES](https://mastodon.social/tags/NES) port of The Fool's Journey [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) solitaire by Desmond Meraz

[#nesdev](https://mastodon.social/tags/nesdev) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112008905496017848) 2024-02-29T07:16:13Z ****
Progress! Only a few more card designs needed to be made and then I can start the 6502 ASM programming for this [#NES](https://mastodon.social/tags/NES) ROM :D

[#nesdev](https://mastodon.social/tags/nesdev) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112013539622063553) 2024-02-29T19:26:15Z ****
I forgot to mention this on the 25th, but the "Leap Day" used to be the 24th of February!

Woo calendar nerd facts! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112016410230411804) 2024-02-29T20:29:09Z ****
Wrote a quick online journal post titled "Happy February 29th! - Leap Year Facts" where I, as a total Calendar nerd, talk about leap years a bit :) [https://vigrey.com/journal/happy-february-29th-leap-year-facts.html](https://vigrey.com/journal/happy-february-29th-leap-year-facts.html)

[#LeapYear](https://mastodon.social/tags/LeapYear) [#LeapDay](https://mastodon.social/tags/LeapDay) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112016657554472040) 2024-03-02T04:27:20Z ****
Third [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card done this week! The Hierophant! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112024200179695784) 2024-03-02T08:52:19Z ****
If you have a Nintendo Switch, please pick up these 2 game links. Total is $3.98 USD (before tax). I did a review for 2 of these games and absolutely loved those games. [https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/mysteries-under-lake-ophelia-switch/](https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/mysteries-under-lake-ophelia-switch/) [https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/horror-bundle-paratopic-plus-fatum-betula-switch/](https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/horror-bundle-paratopic-plus-fatum-betula-switch/) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112025242122674148) 2024-03-03T03:54:45Z ****
Annoyed that I remember how this is spelled off of memory... pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (this is the first time I have ever spelled that on the dvorak keyboard layout, so it felt weird to type out) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112029734387932694) 2024-03-03T04:07:30Z ****
To any yall in TX, especially close to the fires happening there, please stay safe. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112029784507283162) 2024-03-04T20:27:07Z ****
Just a reminder for those who observe the Ides of March, you can be even more old school about it by celebrating Julius Caesar's Ides of March on March 28th instead of March 15th! If we had stayed on the Julian Calendar, which was implemented in time for Caesar's assassination, the Ides of March would correspond to the Gregorian calendar's March 28th. I wrote an online journal post about it last year :) [http://vigrey.com/journal/this-isnt-caesars-ides-of-march-why-i-commemorate-it-on-28th.html](http://vigrey.com/journa ... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112039298826429869) 2024-03-04T21:11:12Z ****
Another week, another [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card! Temperance! Only 6 more Major Arcana cards to finish! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112039472139933532) 2024-03-04T23:26:04Z ****
Made sauerkraut for the first time this month (a total of about a gallon of it) and taste tested all 4 mason jars full of it today after letting all 4 jars of cabbage ferment for 3 weeks. Tasted great! Appears to be a success :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112040002474203845) 2024-03-05T04:41:38Z ****
"Password must include at least 1 special character"

. . .

"Not that one (Password contains invalid characters)"

"Or that one (Password contains invalid characters)"

"Or that... (Password contains invalid characters)" ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112041243362456569) 2024-03-06T00:17:09Z ****
Gameboy pixel art I did of The Devil card contains very low resolution pixel nudity, albeit non-sexual nudity

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Finished The Devil [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card today! That makes 30 cards total so far! Only 5 more Major Arcana cards to finish until they're done ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112045865672026767) 2024-03-06T09:26:26Z ****
Used some of the sauerkraut I made for a grilled cheese sandwich (each slice of bread has a decent helping of brown mustard and a piece of cheese on it then in between both cheesed slices of bread is about 1/2 cup of sauerkraut). I didn't know this is what I was missing out on my whole life :O ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112048025524505498) 2024-03-06T23:39:04Z ****
Third [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card of the week finished! This time is Strength, also known as the "Trying to give your cat a pill" card ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112051378218234758) 2024-03-07T00:53:01Z ****
For those who want to see all of the [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card designs I have already done, I have them all available to view at [https://vigrey.com/tarot/gb-tarot.html](https://vigrey.com/tarot/gb-tarot.html)

Also available via [#geminispace](https://mastodon.social/tags/geminispace) at [gemini://vigrey.com/tarot/gb-tarot.gmi](gemini://vigrey.com/tarot/gb-tarot.gmi) and over [#gopher](https://mastodon.social/tags/gopher) at [gopher://vigrey.com/1 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112051669006922849) 2024-03-07T08:17:34Z ****
In a sad turn of events, I no longer have pizza 🙁 Ate the last slice I had about 12 hours ago ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112053417073342028) 2024-03-08T03:57:40Z ****
If I were to start streaming again, mostly doing 6502 ASM and gameboy pixel art streams, would anyone be interested in watching me? I would be self hosting the stream and chat rather than using a service like Twitch or Youtube. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112058057360041746) 2024-03-08T05:11:40Z ****
Quick, while the mods are asleep, divide and take the integer value of the answer...

Sorry, that popped into my head while taking antacids a few moments ago... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112058348369435485) 2024-03-08T11:51:36Z ****
I ended up setting up Owncast and am using my server to proxy the livestreams through. Also built a ~ 100 line go program to "access code" protect the server so only those I have given the access code to can watch my livestreams and hang out :) I'll try to build a better access code feature over time, but for now this will work.

The system will require me to update the privacy policy on my site though. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112059920946166099) 2024-03-08T11:57:48Z ****
This would have been so much easier to deal with if the web and web browsers commonly used TLS client certificates in the same way [#geminispace](https://mastodon.social/tags/geminispace) does ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112059945383759438) 2024-03-08T12:06:44Z ****
The geese that flew North over my house just now wish you all a very HONK ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112059980503377997) 2024-03-08T22:02:14Z ****
Doing my first livestream in quite a while! Because I like using the Shavian alphabet for personal things as practice, I titled the stream "𐑐𐑤𐑴𐑜𐑮𐑨𐑥𐑦𐑙 ‹nginx› 𐑮𐑩𐑐𐑤𐑱𐑕𐑥𐑩𐑯𐑑, 𐑞𐑧𐑯 ‹NES› 𐑛𐑩𐑝𐑧𐑤𐑳𐑐𐑥𐑩𐑯𐑑" (Programming nginx replacement, then NES development)

If I know you well enough, I can give you a link to the livestream along with the access code. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112062322083267505) 2024-03-09T01:58:56Z ****
[@wuest](https://hachyderm.io/@wuest) In an unexpected turn of events, I'm streaming again! Self hosting streams now with an owncast server. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112063252823134845) 2024-03-09T09:07:25Z ****
Strangely enough, it was someone I disagree with a LOT of things on that taught me that. In fact, I think I might disagree with him the most out of anyone I have had incredibly good will conversations with. I have learned a lot from him though. Emphasis on "good will conversations" though. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112064937699256098) 2024-03-09T09:05:27Z ****
I try to live my life by the phrase "Informed Consent over Plausible Deniability"

That's one of the reasons why I get verbose as heck about what I say. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112064929971489476) 2024-03-09T09:30:26Z ****
Informed consent over plausible deniability ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112065028190483486) 2024-03-09T10:38:15Z ****
𐑯𐑴𐑑 𐑑 𐑕𐑧𐑤𐑓: 1 𐑮𐑵𐑤 𐑐𐑻 𐑤𐑲𐑯. 𐑰𐑗 𐑮𐑵𐑤 𐑑𐑱𐑒𐑕 1 𐑤𐑲𐑯 𐑯 𐑴𐑯𐑤𐑦 1 𐑤𐑲𐑯. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112065294864926978) 2024-03-09T10:58:16Z ****
I really wish Nightdive Studio would release the Forsaken remaster on Switch. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9CJ9Q2GVfg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9CJ9Q2GVfg) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112065373587003400) 2024-03-09T11:23:32Z ****
Song recommendation for folks. "If I Could Only Fly" by Blaze Foley [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMT76\_mYDV0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMT76_mYDV0) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112065472893796458) 2024-03-09T23:23:27Z ****
I'm making a replacement for nginx that will work well for me that I'm calling "seriesoftubes" (Series of Tubes)

Streaming that development now. If I know and trust you well enough, I can DM you the access code to my stream. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112068303745004762) 2024-03-10T00:47:21Z ****
The new year quickly approaches in my calendar system, the "Limerick Calendar". The 21st of March is day 01:01 of year [53], which begins the "Year of the First Joker" :D

I gotta figure out what to do to celebrate! Maybe I'll do a pixel art Joker major card.

[http://vigrey.com/wiki/limerick\_calendar](http://vigrey.com/wiki/limerick_calendar) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112068633655968010) 2024-03-11T09:26:41Z ****
Ēosturmōnaþ (although I have taken to calling it "Lent Month" meaning "Month of Length" due to the daylight lengthening) begins for me a bit after sunset tonight Going to celebrate by walking to a state park and enjoying nature tomorrow in the about 18C (64F-ish) weather ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112076338075256090) 2024-03-11T09:34:58Z ****
Ēosturmōnaþ (although I have taken to calling it "Lent Month" meaning "Month of Length" due to the daylight lengthening) begins for me a bit after sunset tonight Going to celebrate by walking to a state park and enjoying nature tomorrow in the about 64F (18C-ish) weather ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112076370667471817) 2024-03-11T11:43:08Z ****
I wrote a review of the recent 3-D platformer game "Cavern of Dreams". Wonderful and absolutely charming game with the visual and gamplay style of a late 90s N64 3-D platformer. [https://vigrey.com/games/cavern-of-dreams.html](https://vigrey.com/games/cavern-of-dreams.html) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112076874580059956) 2024-03-11T22:13:22Z ****
Another week, yet even more [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) cards! This time is The Chariot. 4 more Major Arcana cards to finish until I'm done with them, then onto working on the Minor Arcana cards! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112079352798791697) 2024-03-13T19:02:45Z ****
I think the order I'll be doing the last 3 major arcana gameboy tarot cards in will be The Lovers, The Sun, then Death. I'll be working on The Lovers today, The Sun probably on Friday, and then Death on Sunday or Monday. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112089927865654776) 2024-03-13T23:15:09Z ****
Gameboy pixel art for "The Lovers" tarot card. Adam and Eve are naked in this card, although the nudity is nonsexual.

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Another [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card design done. This time it's "The Lovers".

The only remaining Major Arcana cards for me to finish are "The Sun" and "Death". I'll be doing "The Sun" a little later this week and finishing off the Major Arcana cards with "Death" early next week. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112090920332131990) 2024-03-14T03:23:42Z ****
I hugged a kitter on my way home and said kitter reminds me of your kitters [@MLE\_online](https://social.afront.org/@MLE_online) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112091897689108342) 2024-03-14T03:21:44Z ****
The last 2 Major Arcana cards I will be dealing with are "The Sun" and "Death". This one was "The Lovers". If you wanna see the last bit of my Major Arcana Gameboy set, now is the time to see. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112091889968456113) 2024-03-14T03:34:06Z ****
[@joeycastillo](https://mastodon.social/@joeycastillo) I have a thing I want to talk to you about that involves math but more importantly deals with low power/battery usage and a battery. In my case, it involves navigation. Would love to find some time to discuss with you. This post will be gone within 2 days and 1 hour, so if we can figure out a time to discuss before that time, that would be great. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112091938561573748) 2024-03-14T12:13:00Z ****
I wrote an online post last year for Pi Day titled "Happy Pi Day (Only a Little Bit of Pi vs Tau Talk...)" because I have a pi tattoo on my left hand/wrist [http://vigrey.com/journal/happy-pi-day-only-little-bit-of-pi-vs-tau-talk.html](http://vigrey.com/journal/happy-pi-day-only-little-bit-of-pi-vs-tau-talk.html) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112093978981206021) 2024-03-14T14:51:43Z ****
Used email the "intended way" today. Haven't really done that for a while now. It was nice :) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112094603093583710) 2024-03-14T17:24:40Z ****
Just finished up the [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card design of "The Sun". It'll be the only card I'm not going to directly post here. It can be seen at [http://vigrey.com/tarot/gb-tarot.html](http://vigrey.com/tarot/gb-tarot.html) though.

Only 1 more major arcana card to finish! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112095204487116013) 2024-03-15T07:08:19Z ****
The folks who had said doggo were great sports and howled outside with the doggo and me :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112098443215734159) 2024-03-15T07:07:45Z ****
I pet a pretty doggo today and even got to spoil said dog by giving it some beef jerky! :O A white husky. We sang outside for a bit by howling at the sky :) 10/10 would recommend the experience. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112098441002863327) 2024-03-15T07:26:24Z ****
My birthday is coming up in just over a month. What I want for my birthday is some good recipes, especially for things that can be grilled. If you have great jalapeno popper recipes, PLEASE SHARE WITH ME!!!! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112098514357737791) 2024-03-15T16:28:37Z ****
I wrote a post last year talking about why I commemorate the [#IdesOfMarch](https://mastodon.social/tags/IdesOfMarch) on March 28th instead of March 15th, titled "This Isn’t Caesar’s Ides of March (Why I Commemorate It on the 28th)"

[http://vigrey.com/journal/this-isnt-caesars-ides-of-march-why-i-commemorate-it-on-28th.html](http://vigrey.com/journal/this-isnt-caesars-ides-of-march-why-i-commemorate-it-on-28th.html) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112100646451799322) 2024-03-16T00:03:16Z ****
Wrote a post discussing my progress on the 4 pledges I made during Winter Nights late last October. The post is titled "Determining Time From First Principles - Update 1". I can happily say that I have fulfilled all 4 pledges :D

I even go a bit into how to determine Solar Midnight in the Northern Hemisphere using the stars.

[https://vigrey.com/journal/determining-time-from-first-principles-update-1.html](https://vigrey.com/journal/determining-time-from-first-principles-update-1.html) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112102434150184125) 2024-03-17T05:12:31Z ****
Happy St. Patrick's Day! This day is for some reason very memorable for me because it's the day I quit highschool and the day MN went into the first lockdown in 2020. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112109312483656555) 2024-03-17T08:55:13Z ****
Let's hang out under the cool oak tree and send secret messages to each other over Pictochat. 💜 ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112110188228945510) 2024-03-18T04:58:46Z ****
I need some friends who could smuggle samoas for me! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112114920767489454) 2024-03-18T04:57:52Z ****
Was suddenly reminded about how angry I am that Minnesota no longer gets Samoas cookies (my favorite) and instead now (and for quite a while now) get caramel delites. Sure, they look similar to each other, but they're not the same. I shall forever hate the national girl scout organization for messing with the balance of MN cookies... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112114917204142876) 2024-03-18T05:11:54Z ****
I do not know why this video was recommended on YouTube for me (I do not have a YouTube account), but I'm happy Jeremy got a new skeleton and I'm happy this video reminds me of the 2007-2010 era YouTube I enjoy, even if this video is very new. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXLIBGNnDL4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXLIBGNnDL4) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112114972403339551) 2024-03-18T05:08:51Z ****
I don't know who follows me that enjoys AI generated images, but please don't have images generated using an AI based on things I write or say.

I cannot stop anyone from doing what they will, but it's like if I mentioned how they really dislike the sort of humor South Park does and after saying something, people start mentioning a bunch of South Park quotes.

Please respect that I don't want to be the reason AI content generation happens. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112114960401497754) 2024-03-18T06:37:46Z ****
I don't use Steam, but the Steam Spring Sale is going on and an absolute favorite game of mine, GRIS, is 75% off. One of the incredibly few games I have played that has caused me to tear up. I plan on eventually doing a review on my site for this game. I highly recommend it. It hits an incredibly similar "arthouse" media feeling that "Tenshi no Tamago (Angel's Egg)" gives me [https://store.steampowered.com/app/683320/GRIS/](https://store.steampowered.com/app/683320/GRIS/) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112115310006961836) 2024-03-18T10:34:41Z ****
I feel frustrated and embarrassed that I was loaned Godel Escher Bach before 2020 and since bought my own copy and returned the loaned copy and still never read more than 5 chapters in. I want to read through GEB, but I suspect I might need some folks who will read through it with me as motivation and quasi-competition. Out of my backlog of things to do, reading GEB is the one that frustrates me the most that it hasn't been cleared from the backlog. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112116241661012605) 2024-03-18T11:48:01Z ****
Can we please get an OS install song like Velkommen on Windows XP? I get that a lot of folks who installed Windows XP didn't have sound drivers working while installing, so they didn't hear Velkommen, but I'd love more OS install music. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112116529965395267) 2024-03-18T11:57:44Z ****
Just realized the corners of a watch face I made for my e-ink smartwatch (had to program it myself, but the watch is the Watchy by SQFMI) was heavily influenced by Enix SNES games before they combined with Square Soft. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112116568226432772) 2024-03-19T08:59:54Z ****
Wanted to get this done yesterday or the day before, but was too tired until now. The last Major Arcana [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card is now done! This card is Death. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112121531248267418) 2024-03-19T10:53:01Z ****
Only 4 more cards until I'm at the halfway point for all 78 cards :D Started this year with only 8 cards done over the previous 2 weeks and since the beginning of the year I have done 27 cards. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112121976031643827) 2024-03-19T12:40:51Z ****
Another [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card. Now that I finished up the Major Arcana, you'll be seeing a bunch of Minor Arcana cards get finished. This time is the 4 of Wands! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112122400051590255) 2024-03-19T13:37:52Z ****
3rd [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card done today! This time it's the 7 of Wands. 2 more cards until I'm half way done! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112122624212984708) 2024-03-20T00:28:50Z ****
One more and I'll be halfway done with all of the [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) cards! 6 of Swords here. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112125183944718346) 2024-03-20T01:18:34Z ****
Only about 3 more hours until the [#equinox](https://mastodon.social/tags/equinox). Decided to finish up a 5th [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card. The 9 of Swords.

39 finished, 39 remaining. If I do only 1 a week starting now, I will be finished by the Winter Solstice! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112125379498708275) 2024-03-20T23:58:00Z ****
Only 2 minutes until year [52] of my calendar system, the "Limerick Calendar" is over. Happy New Year! I wrote a journal post about the system to celebrate this first full year finishing up and the start of year [53], which I am calling the "Year of the First Joker".

[https://vigrey.com/journal/year-52-of-limerick-calendar-system-comes-to-a-close-happy-new-year.html](https://vigrey.com/journal/year-52-of-limerick-calendar-system-comes-to-a-close-happy-new-year.html) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112130725026217229) 2024-03-21T01:07:41Z ****
Finally wrote a blog post linking to the [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) project I have been working on here. Now folks who ready my journal but don't follow my mastodon account can see the cards I have finished!

[https://vigrey.com/journal/halfway-done-with-2-bit-game-boy-tarot-card-project.html](https://vigrey.com/journal/halfway-done-with-2-bit-game-boy-tarot-card-project.html) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112130999050982753) 2024-03-21T18:55:39Z ****
Got bored waiting for rush hour in my town to end so I can walk to the gas station, so modified my Mastodon profile picture a little. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112135198425921469) 2024-03-21T23:03:37Z ****
Celebrated the 1st day of the Limerick Calendar year by doing a 2-bit tracing of Joker card of the "Triton No. 42" deck by the New York Consolidated Card Company. Not my best work, but I consider it good enough. Was trying to find Joker card designs that were in the public domain and saw this silly one of a man riding a fish! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112136173489231118) 2024-03-25T23:22:41Z ****
Another week, another [#Gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/Gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card! Just finished up the 10 of Swords ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112158897670800069) 2024-03-26T03:13:38Z ****
Decided to do a second [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card tonight while waiting for the fog to get denser outside so I can explore in the fog! The 8 of Pentacles, which makes me think of Pa Ingalls from Little House on the Prarie (played by Michael Landon) making pentagram plates for his family for some reason. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112159805807908944) 2024-03-27T02:25:52Z ****
Another [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card finished! 5 of Swords this time around ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112165280320216610) 2024-03-27T04:52:17Z ****
35 [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) cards to go! Just finished up the 5 of Pentacles! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112165856049265854) 2024-03-27T05:56:08Z ****
Felt motivated to do more [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) cards. I might do another tonight. We'll see. Finished up the 6 of Pentacles. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112166107123431870) 2024-03-27T07:33:58Z ****
And a 4th [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card finished in the last day, which makes 6 so far this week. The 4 of Swords. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112166491841737377) 2024-03-27T23:15:47Z ****
Gonna do another Game Boy tarot card pixel art stream. If I know you well enough and you want to watch, I can get you a link with the access code. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112170195181981502) 2024-03-28T00:28:05Z ****
Another [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card! Will probably try to do one more today after this one and maybe one later tonight if I feel motivated to. The Page of Swords this time around! The 7th card I did this week (which means I'm an extra 6 weeks ahead of schedule now) :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112170479512493072) 2024-03-28T01:27:22Z ****
8th [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card done this week. The 7 of Swords. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112170712569534569) 2024-03-28T01:47:51Z ****
If I do 3 [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) cards every week on average from this point forward, I'll be done before the Summer Solstice. It took Pamela Colman Smith about 6 months to get all 78 designs done, so it would be nice to try and match that pace a bit. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112170793129116374) 2024-03-28T06:06:20Z ****
Only 30 [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) cards left to do now! :D Just finished the 8 of Swords. Sorry so many of my posts are this project, I just want to get this project finished, so I'm generally picking up the pace for the card designs. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112171809548200936) 2024-03-28T07:43:23Z ****
Wrote a journal post commemorating the Ides of March today titled "Orjner gur Vqrf bs Znepu - Gevcyr Pnrfne Cbfg"

[http://vigrey.com/journal/orjner-gur-vqrf-bs-znepu-gevcyr-pnrfne-cbfg.html](http://vigrey.com/journal/orjner-gur-vqrf-bs-znepu-gevcyr-pnrfne-cbfg.html)

[#CaesarCipher](https://mastodon.social/tags/CaesarCipher) [#JulianCalendar](https://mastodon.social/tags/JulianCalendar) [#IdesOfMarch](https://mastodon.social/tags/IdesOfMarch) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112172191184861722) 2024-03-28T09:22:51Z ****
Decided to finish up the Swords suit for the [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot). This card is the King of Swords. I'll try to finish the Queen and Knight sometime in the next day. 10 cards done so far this week! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112172582266618168) 2024-03-28T21:19:36Z ****
Trying to finish up the Swords suit of the Game Boy tarot card project, so streaming that now :) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112175400662206239) 2024-03-28T22:38:11Z ****
50 cards done!!! This [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card is the Queen of Swords ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112175709665787060) 2024-03-28T23:54:01Z ****
Finished the Swords suited cards for the [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card project! The Knight of Swords :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112176007844995686) 2024-03-29T00:00:07Z ****
Finished the Swords suited cards for the [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card project! The Knight of Swords :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112176031822814635) 2024-03-29T03:10:36Z ****
Was very suddenly reminded of this song / music video last night. Unlocked quite a few memories I didn't know I had. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv-92yAYH5E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv-92yAYH5E) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112176780857340774) 2024-03-29T06:07:27Z ****
I think my next online journal post will be writing an answer to the question "If given a biased 20-sided dice, simulate a fair 6 sided dice" or something along those lines. I knew about Von Neumann's debiasing algorithm for biased coin flips, but didn't know how to expand it out to any sided dice that may be biased simulating any sided dice that is fair. Figured out a solution for it though! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112177476266959759) 2024-03-29T06:16:51Z ****
My facial hair is considerably longer than in my profile picture. Considering taking another picture of myself with a 5 month old beard/moustache and editing my current profile pic to add in the current facial hair, similar to the picture I posted a few days ago with my profile picture edited to include a baseball/trucker hat that has the M symbol from Mario's Hat on it. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112177513214386603) 2024-03-30T23:26:15Z ****
Another [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card done! The 9 of Cups, or as I like to call it "John Travolta is happy that he has 9 cups" ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112187223291007835) 2024-03-31T00:55:05Z ****
Another [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card done! The 7 of Pentacles! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112187572582064618) 2024-03-31T22:43:47Z ****
Another [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card done! The Page of Pentacles. Just assume he's holding a very circular egg with a star on it. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112192718628731006) 2024-04-01T00:02:04Z ****
Watched "It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown" with some friends and we came up with a new Charlie Brown movie idea! "Et Tu, Charlie Brown?"

Sally did a long winded speech about being betrayed in the Easter movie, so we figure Sally could be Julius Caesar. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112193026405570780) 2024-04-01T06:01:48Z ****
And another [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card. The 10 of Wands! :D 55 out of 78 cards done! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112194440940582404) 2024-04-01T08:42:22Z ****
Finished up another [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card! The 9 of Wands! 22 more cards to go! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112195072299368183) 2024-04-01T09:41:18Z ****
Last [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card of the night. Might work on a few more after I wake up. 2 of Wands this time around! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112195304034413666) 2024-04-01T22:34:40Z ****
Going to try to do the 5, 6, and Page of Wands today then the Knight, Queen, and King of Wands tomorrow to finish up the Wands suit. I get to draw a kitty for the Queen and a lizard for the King :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112198345064034881) 2024-04-01T22:59:20Z ****
I think I figured out a realistic schedule that will allow me to finish the [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card designs up by the end of April :O ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112198442048894968) 2024-04-02T01:16:57Z ****
This [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card was a lot more tedious to make than I expected it to be. Here's the 5 of Pentacles! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112198983195735099) 2024-04-02T02:30:03Z ****
3/4 of the way done with the [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card designs! Here's the 6 of Wands :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112199270621651556) 2024-04-02T03:57:23Z ****
Only 3 more Wands suited cards until I'm done with all of the Wands [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) cards :D Finished up the Page of Wands. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112199614046667892) 2024-04-03T00:06:37Z ****
Only two Wands suited cards left to finish of the [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) cards and only 17 cards left overall! First I will make some jalapeno poppers though. Here's the Knight of Wands. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112204368926897674) 2024-04-03T06:19:34Z ****
This [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card has a cat in it! Just finished up the Queen of Wands. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112205835436248564) 2024-04-03T07:31:16Z ****
And with this King of Wands card done, I have finished up the Wands suited [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) cards. Only 15 cards remain. If I do at least 1 a day until they're done, I'll be finished on/by my birthday, so I think that will be my newest goal!

I like the lizard on the King of Wands card a lot :D This king's lizard is the lizard of royalty [@rainwarrior](https://mastodon.social/@rainwarrior) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112206117365593363) 2024-04-03T19:22:09Z ****
Another [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) [#card](https://mastodon.social/tags/card) done. The 4 of Cups. Only 14 cards remain until I finished up all of the designs! Trying to do at least 1 a day, which means I will finish these up within 2 weeks if I'm successful in my goal :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112208912657991862) 2024-04-04T05:01:34Z ****
13 [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) cards left to finish up! This one is the 2 of Cups. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112211191033861285) 2024-04-04T06:48:42Z ****
12 [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) cards remaining!!!! Did 58 cards this year alone and have finished 66 out of 78 cards altogether :D This one is the King of Cups.

I don't know when I'll be done exactly, but it looks like it will be sometime between April 7th and April 16th.

Not finished with these designs yet, but I'm very proud of the rate at which I have been able to get these card designs done :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112211612289644501) 2024-04-04T08:52:01Z ****
11 [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) cards left to finish!!! Here's the 7 of Cups!

SO CLOSE TO BEING DONE :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112212097216587843) 2024-04-04T10:34:02Z ****
Once I get the last [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card finished up, I'll be shutting up about the project for a while so I can focus on plotting out how I want the Gameboy ROM to play and programming the ROM. I'll probably still post about the progress from time to time, but the vast amount of postable content has been showing these cards as they get finished. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112212498351935066) 2024-04-05T00:26:23Z ****
Wrote a journal post explaining a solution I managed to string together for a problem I had for a while, which was using a biased N-sided dice to emulate the roll of a fair X-sided dice. The post is titled "Mathematically Transforming a Biased 6-Sided Dice Into an Unbiased 20-Sided Dice" and mostly exists so I have this info written down for if I end up forgetting it and needing the info again later.

[https://vigrey.com/journal/mathematically-transforming-a-biased-6-sided-dice-into-an-unbiased-20-sided-dice.html](https ... ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112215771286048952) 2024-04-05T00:54:24Z ****
Livestreaming while I work on the 9 of Pentacles [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card. If I know you and you want to watch, I can get you the link and access code to watch. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112215881480423631) 2024-04-05T02:03:45Z ****
And with the 9 of Pentacles [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card done, I only have 10 cards left to finish :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112216154140901772) 2024-04-05T02:26:25Z ****
Something about this card gives me "late 70's / early 80s Hanna-Barbera cartoon" vibes, especially the glowing person with the blanket over them and the sudden dark cloud against a clear sky. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112216243280121614) 2024-04-05T06:40:38Z ****
Have been thinking for a bit about this... in terms of style, I think I want to optimize for the [#netsurf](https://mastodon.social/tags/netsurf) browser in particular. I'll do simple dark/light theme work too, but I think I want to make my website work absolutely perfectly on netsurf. It's already like 95%+ of the way there already. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112217242916086235) 2024-04-05T08:54:17Z ****
9 [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) cards left! Gonna work on 1 more tonight. This one is the 3 of Cups. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112217768449730133) 2024-04-05T09:46:40Z ****
70 cards [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) done!!!!! :D Knight of Cups this time around. Only 8 cards left to finish!!! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112217974427374660) 2024-04-06T02:45:16Z ****
Welp, got my dad a new chromebook, which means I get his old one that doesn't have support anymore. Time to put Void Linux on it :D Already flashed coreboot onto it. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112221979701191810) 2024-04-06T04:06:06Z ****
Besides some audio and xorg issues that I'll have to work out over the next few days, everything seems to be working well :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112222297575424434) 2024-04-06T23:23:14Z ****
7 [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) cards remain :) This one is the 3 of Pentacles! Almost finished!!! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112226847613528488) 2024-04-07T07:47:37Z ****
[@rainwarrior](https://mastodon.social/@rainwarrior) Every few months I come back to your cover of Giant Steps. It brings a big smile to my face! Thanks for doing this cover. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112228830917893769) 2024-04-07T07:53:22Z ****
[@rainwarrior](https://mastodon.social/@rainwarrior) Every few months I come back to your cover of Giant Steps. It brings a big smile to my face! Thanks for doing this cover. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5vyQO81qNc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5vyQO81qNc) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112228853539866274) 2024-04-07T11:15:21Z ****
6 cards until I have finished all 78 [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) cards! :D This card is the 6 of Cups. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112229647737840626) 2024-04-07T22:43:13Z ****
Anyone picking up the new Rugratts game on NES? I'm going to pick up the digital version of the game on Switch that includes more modern graphics and such, but would like to see someone TAS the NES version of the game, which will probably involve dumping the ROM from the cartridge being sold by Limited Run Games.

[#nesdev](https://mastodon.social/tags/nesdev) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112232352530698143) 2024-04-07T23:16:35Z ****
Hoping to find a few more personal websites via HTTP to add to the Blanket Fort [#Webring](https://mastodon.social/tags/Webring) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112232483756754504) 2024-04-08T01:15:10Z ****
[@JohnS\_AZ](https://mastodon.social/@JohnS_AZ) Did you ever end up updating your website? I know we discussed adding you to the webring when your site has been updated quite a while back ago ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112232950033539957) 2024-04-08T01:20:07Z ****
5 cards left! I think I'll finish the Queen as well so I have the Cups suit finished today. This card is the 10 of Cups. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112232969518320074) 2024-04-08T03:23:00Z ****
Cups suited [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) cards done! Only 4 cards (all Pentacles) left until I'm done with all 78 designs :D Here's the Queen of Cups card I just finished up! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112233452727047486) 2024-04-08T05:16:11Z ****
𐑞𐑦𐑕 𐑦𐑟 𐑡𐑳𐑕𐑑 𐑩 𐑮𐑦𐑑𐑩𐑯 𐑦𐑒𐑟𐑨𐑥𐑐𐑩𐑤 𐑝 𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯 𐑜𐑮𐑪𐑥 𐑥𐑲 𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯 𐑒𐑰𐑚𐑹𐑛.

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[#𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯](https://mastodon.social/tags/%F0%90%91%96%F0%90%91%B1%F0%90%91%9D%F0%90%91%BE%F0%90%91%AF) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112233897740713285) 2024-04-08T07:03:30Z ****
3 more [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) cards and then I'm done with all 78 designs :) I feel like the Knight of Pentacles will be fine enough and the King and Queen of Pentacles will be tedious like this 10 of Pentacles ended up being. SO CLOSE TO FINISHING! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112234319716743991) 2024-04-08T08:26:42Z ****
Only 2 more [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) cards left to finish :) I won't be able to finish them tonight because I want to be outside for the entirety of the [#SolarEclipse](https://mastodon.social/tags/SolarEclipse). This card is the Knight of Pentacles. The only 2 remaining cards are the Queen and King of Pentacles, both of which will probably take me about 1.5-2.5 hours each to finish. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112234646913107256) 2024-04-08T18:11:07Z ****
Happy Solar Eclipse!!! I'm glad I got the eclipse detection added to syzygy before last October's eclipse :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112236944945357348) 2024-04-08T21:02:35Z ****
Gonna try to finish up the last 2 [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) cards today. Gonna stream the process of working on the cards. If I know you well enough and you wanna watch, feel free to send me a DM and I can get you the access code to watch said stream. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112237619141150908) 2024-04-08T23:40:16Z ****
Only 1 [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) card remains :) Here is the King of Pentacles. Up next is the Queen of Pentacles. Thanks for sticking with me while I worked on all of these :) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112238239166883575) 2024-04-09T00:49:22Z ****
And with this Queen of Pentacles, I have finished making all 78 [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) cards. Thanks for enjoying the design process of making these 78 cards with me :) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112238510887273943) 2024-04-10T08:23:39Z ****
[@fredy](https://tacobelllabs.net/@fredy) Don't forget to put the webring navigator links on your site when you get the chance! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112245959518084333) 2024-04-11T06:41:45Z ****
[@JordiGH](https://mathstodon.xyz/@JordiGH) Are you planning on picking up the NES cartridge for the Rugrats game? Due to this limited edition pre-order thing, I just want to make sure someone I know is getting the NES cartridge, for historic/archival purposes. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112251221130873451) 2024-04-11T23:00:52Z ****
Huh, today I learned there seems to be just as heated of arguments about 1 vs 2 spaces after a full stop in a sentence as there is for space vs tabs for coding or gif vs gif. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112255071188453178) 2024-04-11T23:00:12Z ****
𐑲𐑥 𐑕𐑑𐑦𐑤 𐑯𐑪𐑑 𐑨𐑟 𐑓𐑨𐑕𐑑 𐑨𐑟 𐑲 𐑢𐑪𐑯𐑑 𐑑 𐑚𐑰 𐑨𐑑 𐑮𐑰𐑛𐑦𐑙 𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯 𐑑𐑧𐑒𐑕𐑑. 𐑷𐑤𐑥𐑴𐑕𐑑 𐑷𐑤 𐑝 𐑥𐑲 𐑣𐑨𐑯𐑛𐑮𐑦𐑑𐑩𐑯 𐑯𐑴𐑑𐑕 𐑣𐑨𐑝 𐑚𐑦𐑯 𐑮𐑦𐑑𐑩𐑯 𐑦𐑯 𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯 𐑓 𐑨𐑑 𐑤𐑰𐑕𐑑 𐑞 𐑤𐑨𐑕𐑑 𐑥𐑳𐑯𐑔. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112255068580036068) 2024-04-12T02:04:57Z ****
Gonna try making a carrot cake in a day or 2 :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112255795035776518) 2024-04-13T02:35:00Z ****
Made carrot cake for my first time today! This is the recipe I ended up using: [https://vigrey.com/recipes/carrot-cake.html](https://vigrey.com/recipes/carrot-cake.html) (also available over gemini at [gemini://vigrey.com/recipes/carrot-cake.gmi](gemini://vigrey.com/recipes/carrot-cake.gmi)) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112261575529499324) 2024-04-13T08:11:37Z ****
April 19th is Arbor Day this year. "It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown" has my second favorite soundtrack for a Peanuts movie. My favorite is "Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown". I'm excited to see the Arbor Day movie again as a holiday tradition! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112262899132790865) 2024-04-14T07:38:06Z ****
Made the filling for some jalapeno poppers and made some peanut butter bars (imagine peanut butter cups, but as bars) tonight. Both recipes are on my site. [http://vigrey.com/recipes/peanut-butter-bars](http://vigrey.com/recipes/peanut-butter-bars) (link to the peanut butter bars) and [http://vigrey.com/recipes/jalapeno-poppers](http://vigrey.com/recipes/jalapeno-poppers) (link to the jalapeno popper recipe). Same link, but gemini:// instead of http:// works for the gemini capsule links to these recipes. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112268429661411557) 2024-04-14T21:59:18Z ****
pictures of food I made for a cookout

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The food I made for a cookout I had to celebrate my birthday turned out great! Made carrot cake, peanut butter bars, and jalapeno poppers. All of these recipes are available on my site at [http://vigrey.com/recipes](http://vigrey.com/recipes) (or [gemini://vigrey.com/recipes](gemini://vigrey.com/recipes) if using a gemini client) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112271816052663460) 2024-04-16T07:52:34Z ****
I recently learned that I'm amazing at drums! Not sure why folks say it takes a while to master it. I can hit it every single time! They're gonna have to make the drums smaller if they want to challenge me! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112279811158074245) 2024-04-17T06:19:44Z ****
Happy birthday to me <3 :) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112285108442773524) 2024-04-17T08:21:54Z ****
Great news! The moon will hit 69% illumination today for my birthday! :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112285588803591667) 2024-04-17T16:56:31Z ****
You know what I want for my birthday? I wanna see cool projects folks have been working on lately, whether it's a project you have been working on or a project you have been keeping tabs on (preferably physical projects, but other projects are fine too) ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112287612355375726) 2024-04-17T18:17:30Z ****
69% illumination moon is best moon! Everyone's birthday should have a 69% illuminated moon at some point in the birthday! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112287930806483076) 2024-04-18T00:45:27Z ****
Ope, looks like I encoded the tarot card tiles in an incorrect order. Gonna try to fix that hopefully tonight. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112289456289640641) 2024-04-18T06:06:38Z ****
I will not be getting this fixed tonight. Honestly, I'm surprised I decided that I might be up to dealing with this tonight, considering it was my birthday. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112290719263850796) 2024-04-18T06:22:26Z ****
I will be doing any update journal post about the gameboy tarot deck in a few days, up to a few weeks. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112290781344826317) 2024-04-18T08:50:57Z ****
Sorry I lied earlier about not getting the screenshot fixed tonight. Got it working. Now time to SLEEEEEP. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112291365377431698) 2024-04-19T12:13:49Z ****
Happy Arbor Day! I'm gonna watch "It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown!" today to celebrate :D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112297825349511574) 2024-04-19T22:48:40Z ****
I forgot how quirky "It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown!" was. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112300321719672474) 2024-04-20T06:23:49Z ****
I guess what I'm trying to ask is... who would be willing to info dump a lot about RFID and NFC to me? ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112302111404028506) 2024-04-20T06:21:58Z ****
Who do I know or who is willing to talk to me, who knows a lot about RFID and NFC in general, and at least a bit about some of the implants out in the market? I might be getting an implant soon and I want to know more about RFID and NFC standards before I make a decision on which implant. I want something that is simple enough to implement for reading and writing if/when it becomes obsolete, so I can still build uses for it. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112302104135883575) 2024-04-20T07:47:27Z ****
When I'm done with the gameboy tarot cartridge, I might start working again on the gameboy rainbow box I wanted to work on a few years ago. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112302440264569211) 2024-04-20T22:22:13Z ****
I wish the fad of scroll-fixed header bars on websites would be tuned down a bit. There are some sites I have visited where the scroll-fixed header takes up nearly 50% of the visible page at all times. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112305879979662469) 2024-04-20T22:57:13Z ****
Any [#gbdev](https://mastodon.social/tags/gbdev) folks here who could help me understand the gameboy interrupt system a bit better?

IME is set to 0 with DI and IE=$10 (vblank interrupt enabled). I was under the assumption that the vblank interrupt wouldn't trigger at this point until I set IME to 1, but the vblank interrupt is still happening. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112306017642355913) 2024-04-21T00:02:36Z ****
Figured out what my [#gbdev](https://mastodon.social/tags/gbdev) issue ended up being in terms of interrupts. Just experienced the halt bug. I'm glad bgb was accurate enough to emulate the bug properly! ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112306274705158839) 2024-04-22T22:09:11Z ****
A ordered a physical deck of my [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) cards and they just came in the mail today! :D Went with a palette based on the Game Boy Pocket. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112317153370573488) 2024-04-23T08:09:48Z ****
[#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) ROM update:

I'm starting to get a hold of ASM programming for the Game Boy. I can now display all 78 card designs (and 2 back designs) on a single Game Boy ROM! I think the next step is to work on the deck shuffle functionality. ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112319515088715694) 2024-04-23T10:26:44Z ****
32-bit Galois LFSR implemented as a random number generator in the [#gameboy](https://mastodon.social/tags/gameboy) [#tarot](https://mastodon.social/tags/tarot) ROM! It's a pain to try and convert NES code to GB Z80. Implementing deck shuffling soon, which requires me to implement a "random bits -> random numbers" function ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112320053566813851) 2024-04-24T09:00:04Z ****
Oooh, looks like today is [#JSNakedDay](https://mastodon.social/tags/JSNakedDay). My site removed all instances of JavaScript quite a while back ago and it still works great

[http://vigrey.com](http://vigrey.com) (although I currently also have [http://text.vigrey.com](http://text.vigrey.com) for a version of my site with no CSS or image tags as well)

:D ⌘ [Read more](https://mastodon.social/@vi/112325375051466303)