a place for passing thoughts
struggling to create these days
lua has always felt alien to me but now that I'm getting my hands positively soiled with gloopy chunks of lua I'm realizing it's pretty cool actually
wish I had the commitment to anything that some have to their faith
this holiday has really tested my capacity to accomplish as little as humanly possible
hello 2025
good bye 2024
feeling lucky to have the job I have. the challenges are mostly real, not manufactured. I am forced to rise to the level of those around me, which is clearly high. I shall not take this environment for granted
the rotted mind allows precaution to fester into superstition
spent maybe 3 hours last night struggling to find a bug in my aoc day 22 solution. ultimately gave up, went to sleep. dreamt I was working on the problem, then I woke up having found the bug. got up to check and that was it. brains are weird
I feel stupid again caught in another cycle I can't end oh wait I never began
lyrics from Confusion off the album A Love You Cannot Shake (2024) by Fashion Club
just listened to a recovering alcoholic's "break up letter" to alcohol. I'm not an alcoholic but I resonate with the struggle of trying to change yourself, especially as I navigate a difficult time at work trying to reconcile my personality and working style with the demands of performing within a large organization
thinkin about this guy I met at a concert the other night. he worked in tech for 30 years then retired, lives downtown, he's got 9 acres on the olympic peninsula, plays music with friends, takes classes at community college, and runs a small business. makes me wonder if I should be doing more with my life
ok day 12 was ez
hundreds of integer overflows, dozens of seg faults, and three days later, I finally got it :')
the idea was not good enough
an idea has formed
skipped ahead a bit in advent of code and ugh, day 11 part 2 is a tough nut to crack. gonna sleep on it
just saw sungazer live! older crowd than I usually see (which is cool)! it was fun to dance to the music (when it wasn't crazy time signatures)! I got a shirt!
figured out something at work that I’ve been stuck on for like 3 days. feels good to be flowing again. gonna go for a run now. looking forward to the crisp air
my header-only libc-free c hashmap library works well enough to solve advent of code day 1! yayy
played more shenmue with friends. love to chill and hang out in dobuita
resuming my mission to do advent of code using c without libc. macros yay :')
finished installing arch and have samba and syncthing set up. feels good. hopefully won't see anymore suspicious traffic, who knows what ubuntu was up to
oops just noticed my BIOS version is 4 years out of date so I’m updating that now
my home server is apparently receiving some suspicious traffic, according to my ISP. kinda suspect my haphazard installation of Ubuntu Server I did a few days ago; not sure I trust it. screw this I'm installing Arch
(on the bus to work rn)
woke up relatively early today to do some Picotron stuff. made progress on the RAM visualizer: implemented mouse scrolling and made the visualization width configurable. I think the next step would be to make some kind of interface for editing values in memory. will have to wait til I get home
ended up spending all my time on Picotron tonight. mainly reading the manual and writing some small test programs. I saw there’s an API for reading arbitrary segments of RAM into a buffer, which gave me the idea to make a RAM visualizer. mapping the bytes (256 possible values) in memory to colors (Picotron is limited to 64 distinct colors at any given time) will be a challenge. I’ll have to think about how to do that. but now it’s time to be kind to my future self and go to bed
first time posting in Geminispace. hello!
got home from work not too long ago and I have some things I want to explore today: picotron, advent of code, home server setup. we'll see how much of it I manage to get to. I'd also like to sleep early today.
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