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I haven’t done one of these kinds of things since I had a LiveJournal.

Not been in touch in many years — lost in the friendship group rift after a breakup — but we were once close, and would stretch time and plans to see each other when we’d be on the same continent.

no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here… nothing valued is here.

A few weeks (months?)

my dreams press in on me acumulando un till i more often reminisce of them than of this they bubble to the top, and over

Got sick of having to do a half dozen VCS and Nix operations just to publish a new blog post; after a lifetime of managing to avoid it, gave in to the ultimate yak shave and wrote a little blog engine.

Rheumatologist was distracted and not really listening.

I was sitting in the dark the other night, meditating; at this point in time, there was a particular point on the inner side of my right ankle that was particularly hurting, and my focus there; a little duller was an ache on the top of my left foot.

I keep trying really hard to improve my situation, but reality proves a harsh mistress.

I’m reincorporating posts made by a variety of no-longer-public-facing selves, long into the past.

Something about this really fucks.

content note: physical illness, death, suicide. one thing about spending enough time fearing death, for whatever reason and reasons that may be, is that one end to it is not removing the originator of that fear — which depending on your psyche or conditio…

Happy new year!

A follow-up to lottia notes: Charlotte continues to write there (though about more topics now, including Nix and Git/jj), and I’m considering her readership bootstrapped after a year of crossposts.

Make your own exhaustiveness rules up.

edit: Google tells me people hit this page a lot, searching for “1.2e+2 volts” and “what does 1.2e+2 volts mean”.

We need to avoid getting scaled by the compositor, to preserve our sharp edge.

A concrete example of Git and jujutsu usage compared.

Launching into jujutsu.

OOP is the world's most consistently-used term in any field of any kind, ever.

The sender address bounced today, so I’m just publishing my reply here.

You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

Content note: pain, bad mental health, health issues.

It’s come to my attention that some folks don’t know my blog has an RSS feed!

I’m currently working on a bit of a long-winded project to recapture QuickBASIC, the environment I learned to program in, in a bit of a novel way, while remaining highly faithful to the original.

Feeling very seen by fish today.

Reviewing all the medications I’ve ever been on.

Nix configuration revealed!

Yesterday was our 100th day in Estonia.

The typical hypothetical “who are you coding for” example meant to shock you into writing better code is “yourself in six months”, but it turns out four is completely adequate to get lost.

After the better part of 20 years working with Python, it still managed to surprise me today.

Notes.app, kell 08:03: my new theory is that satan Crept into this world through signed integers

I’ve been getting back into using CXXRTL and Zig together, so I’ve extracted and rendered somewhat reusable the bindings I made to use them together!

Täna oli saunapäev

Yay!

I gave a lightning talk at last night’s Yosys Users Group about combining Chisel and C++ with Yosys/CXXRTL.

Identities changed to protect the innocent.

Learning your second HDL is kinda like learning your second programming language.

As dispensed by the vaccinating staff: Australia: Now, no heavy lifting for a few hours!

Never mind that, lol.

Noting that, having moved (“returned!”)

It’s been a week since I last wrote.

We’ve been in the country a little over two days now.

I’ve been deleting hundreds of accounts and cleaning up many more while preparing for the move, and I found I have an npm account with one (1) package, last published May 2012 (!)

Here’s a little tool I’ve made to help my partner and I while learning Estonian.

I’ve been writing notes on FPGA/digital design and Nix over at lottia notes.