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I've recently finished reading What The Doormouse Said, and I was fascinated by the story of the People's Computer Company publishing the specification for a subset of the BASIC programming language, inviting programmers to write their own unique implemen…

We have returned to Victoria for the winter and reconnected with our little local sailing community, it has been wonderful hearing about everyone's summer adventures.

Once again, finding ourselves having drinks over a scattering of world atlases and passage planning compendiums.

The misanthropy that accompanied our return to the noise and smell of the cities, has not yet subsided.

We've left Desolation Sound, and stopped in Texada to provision before sailing south.

We've sailed ourselves into somewhat of an internet deadzone, where my evenings consist of lying in the hammock hung between the jib and the mast, thinking about what sort of an operating system I'd like for myself; what would be both realistic for the Uxn

I haven't had it in me to start new projects these past two weeks, so I've instead revisited projects in need of care; namely Adelie which was until now undocumented, leaving people to guess at how things worked.

The more I try to imagine what resilient software might look like, the more shortcomings I find in Varvara roms, namely, the ones that rely entirely on external documentation.

I hate to think that we will, at some point, have to sail south to re-supply, we've both decided that we shall stretch our supplies for as long as we possibly can.

We've arrived in Desolation Sound and met up with friends.

I couldn't stop thinking about the idea of a Uxntal Sign Language.

We are finally making our way north toward Desolation Sound and the Broughton Archipelago.

Acquired a couple of slide rules from a retired teacher, and figured out how to use them.

I felt frustrated by the development of Uxn this week.

Inspired from the Cuneiform Tablets paper, I considered realizing the paper's point of implementing Smalltalk72 on a UVM, I spent a few days experimenting with the ST72 environment — Only to realize that, like the ChifirVM, it is poorly thought out and fu…

We gave our talk at LibrePlanet 2022, and it went very well.

Took a deep dive into the various experiments in digital preservation(PADI, CAMiLEON, Domesday, etc..), didn't really find anything worthy of note, but it did inspire me to rewrite some of the content on permacomputing.

Rekka is putting the finishing touches to Wiktopher, and asked me to design a game that the people of Iridi could be playing.

Our upcoming keynote for Libre Planet 2022 has been announced, we've built a little slideshow program for the presentation.

Rekka and I completed Yufo, our entry for the Virtual Pet Jam 2022, we also added a Serbian and Polish translation to Thousand Rooms.

To kick off 2022, I've decided to write 3 documents for the Uxn project, in which I'll save my design notes, the first one is about the virtual machine itself, the second one is about a personal computer and the last one might be about the language design.

Revisited the tga format as a potential transfer format for Varvara applications such as Noodle.

Spent the first few days of December solving the Advent Of Code puzzles in Uxntal, got distracted, and started thinking about image support inside Left.

Was away from Pino to visit family, spent our evenings catching up and watching movies.

Wrote a little Brainfuck interpreter in Uxntal during this week's transits.

Decided to stop doing daily drawings and port Donsol instead.

Spending the month of October between daily drawings, and various food preservation projects.

Rewrote Dexe to be compatible to the latest changes to Varvara.

The gray weather gives us only a few hours of solar power each day, so we alternate between cleaning and doing other things, such as origami.

We're slowly sailing North toward Vancouver to see friends, we left Saturna for Ladysmith and Silva Bay, Pino has engine problems, again.

We're anchored near Saturna, it's nice to be working offgrid again.