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I finished my slides but I left in them some gaps to fill with puns, and other miscellanea.

We are again in familiar waters, with their familiar weather radio voices, tugboats, madronas, lean little swallows, cormorants, banana slugs and extremely bitter IPAs.

I always fall within visible range of a technical solution needed to solve some generic software issue tormenting me but ever so far as to not be capable of navigating the tool-chain involved in applying said change to its source, and so it goes, each time

We finally emerged from the fog bank that haunts the north of the island, and sailed into the remains of a familiar Desolation Sound summer.

The automated weather radio voice drones about the advent of favorable northerly winds that never manifest, so we've resorted to doing short hops, weather permitting, between the safety of one inlet and the next whenever the storm catches its breath, often

The inlets we find ourselves anchored in are worlds of their own with inhabitants that, as transitory as some may be, are affairing themselves with happenings that extend to the shores of the lagoon, but no further.

We twice waved farewell to Sitka.

We have sailed as far north as we are willing to go this year.

Alaskan summer days are long, the sun wakes us up at 4am, and it stays bright until 11pm.

Sitting aboard Pino in the last port in Canada before entering Alaska, thinking about how odd it is to be sailing straight from the south and having to change timezone.

We've stowed away our 120v devices, untied the lines and begun our sail north to Alaska!

Rek and I are completing the remaining projects on our pre-departure list and provisioning for our sail to Alaska.

We are waiting for a few parts that we had machined, to return to us from the local fabricator.

As days are getting warmer, we can begin to tackle some much needed maintenance topside like changing old lines, varnishing the oars and inspecting the rigging.

We took Pino's chainplates off and while the new ones are being fabricated, we reinforced the area where the chainplate meet the deck.

Our plans for the summer are coming into focus.

Other than doing improvements aboard, it has been a month of playing with conlangs and conscripts.

I've originally started looking into virtual machines to build a target to host some games, a handful of tools and my wiki — but instead of stopping once I had done so, I kept pushing further and became obsessed with this programming language design stuff,

The forge that we use at Hundred Rabbits has been taken down by DDoS attacks and is struggling to come back online, the event reminded us that we ought to also have mirrors and release versions of these source files available elsewhere.

I've been taking it easy for the last few days of the year, cooked a lot, walked a lot.

Rek's Wiktopher is out!

The Elmet Brae compilation has been released, and put up on Beldam Records with a beautiful cover by Rostiger, who also made the Varvara Zine.

Rek and I are doing a final proof-reading of Wiktopher before release, we're trying to make sure that all of the book's conlang dialogs are consistent with each other.

After being away since leaving for the train to Strange Loop, we finally made our way back to Pino.

These past few days, Rek and I were invited to participate in conversations with students, researchers, and radio hosts about sustainable technological practices(Right To Repair, Design for Disassembly, Open Source, etc).

After taking the train from Seattle to Saint-Louis, I kept on heading East to visit family and friends.

On the eve of the talk, I sit half-awake waiting for my first real meal since leaving Victoria to arrive, it's been two hours, blatter is coming down hard on this very loud, and very understaffed, and only available vegetarian place within walking farness…

Now that the first pass of proof-reading for Wiktopher is behind us, we have begun to look into cleaning up some of the worlding aspects of the book, which include congames, conlangs and even conrecipes.

In an attempt to catch up with all of the readings I have had queued in preparation to Strange Loop, I've inadvertently filled my every waking moments with enough dry PLT papers to make myself altogether sick with the topic.

The first pass of review for Wiktopher is done!

We are anchored in Von Donop, and I'm taking some time away from working on the talk to finish proof-reading Wiktopher.

I've done little else this week other than proof-reading Rek's Wiktopher manuscript, but I did have this idea, while working on program verification, that I might like to realize in the fall.

Ever since we sailed back to Canada, from Japan, friends have told us to make the trip through Jervis Inlet to Princess Louisa Inlet.

We're on our way north, anchored in Telegraph harbor.

I've submitted a talk about permacomputing to Strange Loop 2023 and it has been accepted.

For a few weeks now, I've been sketching the basis for a type inference system for Uxntal.

I recently watched David Ungar's Everything You Know About Parallel Programming Is Wrong talk, which lead me to read Tony Hoare's Communicating Sequential Processes, after which I felt inspired to consider parallel computing once more, and soon found myse…

These past few months, I've explored playful things to do with programming that might not directly serve a purpose, or at least, one wouldn't come across them without seeking them out specifically, and I've collected some of those seemingly useless, ideas…

The past two weeks have flown by, between finishing Oquonie and preparing Pino for the summer, each day I fall into bed completely exhausted.

Spent the week at the LEÑA residency collaborating with audio-visual artists.

I've been progressing on Oquonie, implementing sounds and making sure that it runs as smoothly as possible on as many different platforms as I can.

The weather has been absolute garbage and so has been a great help in advancing the Oquonie port.

After putting together a demo of what a Varvara implementation of Oquonie could look like, Rekka and I decided to officially port it.

I've been reading about reversible computing and put together a playground that allows me to experiment with the ideas of psi-lisp.

Since the new year began, we have spent every waking hour rewiring Pino, it has been a more challenging project than we had hoped but we will sleep soundly knowing that each connection has been well made.

This week, I was introduced to reversible computing and linear logic, which not only do not generate garbage, but also preserves state by making any loss of entropy explicit and an integral part of the program's architecture.

Continuing my recent experiments with the self-hosted emulator, I decided to repurpose it and turn it into an entirely virtualized step-debugger.

I had this idea of implementing the Uxn virtual machine in itself, to virtualize the memory and runtime entirely in a sandboxed emulator rom.

I had a unforgettable time at a conference.

Today was the last day of October, and the last daily drawing.