Yet Another Tech Gemlog

So a good while ago I added a fun curl version of my site, meant for viewing in the terminal.

For reasons I don't even remember, I was reading about the details of the ELF executable format, and stumbled across the program interpreter functionality used for dynamic linking.

I wrote a very long reply to someone on the Comp.Lang.Ada Usenet newsgroup about handling text encoding in Ada, which is important information for modern programs and is very poorly documented; so I figured I should duplicate the reply here for posterity.

So recently I've been doing a bit more reverse engineering of the Nintendo e-Reader for the GBA.

This is a follow-up to my previous post on some reverse-engineering I did for the Nintendo e-Reader.

I've just had a sudden realization about how people view fiction that I think might be one of the biggest gulfs between how normal people and people like critics or even just normal film/TV/book nerds view media.

I finished reading A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking a few weeks ago, and decided it would be nice to annotate a few quotes I bookmarked and clean up some notes I wrote.

A reply to Dmitry Non's post “Common Lisp is a Dumpster” This post was originally just going to be an email but got out of hand in scope so I published it here lol.

I've had the code snippets and a few paragraphs of this post in my drafts for over a year with no accompanying writing, because I don't really have an actual point I'm making.

For some reason I'm wondering if in a movie or other professional production, if a character looking into the camera is as bad now as it was previously.

I've been playing around with Rust macros a bit recently, and have been slightly annoyed when taking them in comparison with Lisp.

I've been sorta sad lately about not doing any real programming.

As a loosely-related addendum to my previous post on Ada.

DISCLAIMER: I'm not a dentist or dental professional of any sort, you should do whatever they recommend rather than following what I spent five minutes guesstimating XD.

Random thoughts dump, not particularly organized or trying to make a specific point.

I have a handful of Lisp programs running on a personal server, as well as some scripts on my desktop computer; and it's gotten me curious how people typically deploy Common Lisp programs.

This post available in the Pure, OG ROOPHLOCH form on Gopher, as well as on Gemini and the Web (all as per the usual): gopher://nytpu.com/0/gemlog/2024-09-05 gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2024-09-05 http://nytpu.com/gemlog/2024-09-05 ROOPHLOCH announcement po…

Something I find really irritating about the modern culture of film photography is that even though the final result is art, the process is pretty objectively a science—it's literally just a mix of chemistry, optics, sensitometry, and (in color film) colo…

Section added for Orpheus Ascending August 29, 2024.

I wrote the top part of this post and then got sidetracked writing the entire bottom part, but I didn't want to throw out all of it out so I just left it in despite it being essentially unrelated XD.

I definitely do not need a new DSLR, but sometimes I look at them just to see if there's any interesting models.

There's a webapp I've had a vague idea about making for a long time, and earlier today I was thinking about not having posted on Gemini for a while; so I figured I might as well braindump about the idea and flesh it out some more.

In response to: “Books vs Internet” by Sandra at Idiomdrottning Even if you're looking at the good parts of the internet, I feel like there's one key difference between a book and a website: books go into much more detail and depth.

Just finished migrating my capule and website to a new server, as well as deploying a number of planned changes!

As time goes on, I more and more strongly refuse to believe the line about there being no such thing as natural talent at something.

A few weeks ago, I saw someone posting on the Fediverse about their experiments with extremely minimalist syntax highlighting (i.e. little to no highlighting at all, other than maybe comments and strings), and had mentioned a few Vim plugins for it.

Spoiler alert: I do directly discuss some things shown in the film, though it's a documentary film so what I talk about isn't going to damage the viewing experience in any way IMO.

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3: You are here Written on a MacBook Pro while watching The only CDROM drive with a Turbo button!

Part 1 Part 2: You are here Part 3 (Final) Written on a MacBook Pro while listening to Sardonicast.

Part 1: You are here Part 2 Part 3 (Final) Written on a MacBook Pro while listening to Blondie's Autoamerican.

In which I discuss miscellaneous thoughts on making a cyberdeck.

In my now slightly outdated post about using NetMD devices with Linux, I included an appendix comparing LP2 and LP4 audio (as encoded by atracdenc) with MP3.

In which I discuss my thoughts on the Playdate console and the games I've played on it.

Gemini isn't trying to solve the failures of the Web in the same way that PICO-8 isn't trying to solve the failures of AAA games Prefatory Matters First, the post by Daniel Stenberg, creator and primary maintainer/BDFL of the venerable cURL library & util…

Last week or so I finally sat down and wrote my pretty ideal binding macro for Common Lisp—basically a rite of passage for any Lisper given all the other ones I've stumbled across.

In which I discuss noted differences between coffee and tea drinkers.

In which I discuss my thoughts on the video game SOMA (2015).

In which I discuss recent repairs and upgrades I've done for several of my devices.

Hey look, somebody much smarter than I am wrote a detailed blog post about a random toot I wrote in thirty seconds with no thought: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/CAsAbstractMachine P.S. they're fully correct, I'm not gonna pull the…

In which I discuss miniseries as an art form in comparison with feature films and television shows; and then digress into contrasting films and television in general.

In which I discuss the history of close_notify in the Gemini commuity and assuade some fears.

In which I share my thoughts and complaints on the new 0.5x version of Dwarf Fortress, with an extra addendum helping new players get started with the game.

The second new program I've been working on for a while and finished this month, I'm announcing the release of the Gemroff markup language!

lasso.nytpu.com (only on Gemini, no web mirror) I'm announcing the release of my new service for Gemini, Lasso!

Okay now that I've finished the bulk of Lasso, I'm currently pondering what features I absolutely want in a smallnet client I'd like to write.

The #1 reason I hear to discourage people from using rolling-release Linux distributions is that they're unstable and will constantly break.

So I just beat Untitled Goose Game.

Today in IRC (#lisp in libera.chat) there was an interesting question posed: are plists or alists older?

A response to ~tfurrows' post “A Nielsen Buck” (That's right, I'm responding to a Phlog post on Gemini because I'm <del>that much of an asshole</del> that cool) I remember getting some time in the past few years a mailer from the big G that was something…

I'm not a movie reviewer so I'm mostly just gonna be rambling about what I thought about the film.