Status updates

pokémon day, new green mp, and the 106th anniversary of the redruth butter riot of 1920 … we’re so back

in 2026 i will continue reading books + playing games + listening to music + using suboptimal python written by my good self to track the progress of the above

leaving a trail of abandoned atproto accounts which should really have names like “socialmedia_v3_final_FINAL_do not edit.docx” or whatever

put off upgrading forgejo for months because i thought it would be incredibly complicated and then all i had to do was stop the systemd service, download the new binary to /usr/bin and chmod +x it, then start the service again?? madness

a choice between two terrible evils stands before me and they are “having to install docker to run a service” and “having to install npm to run a service”

things i have been thinking about doing recently:

  • writing an activitypub server in flask (i have never written anything in flask)
  • going to the fruit shop at 8h30 on saturday morning (i am never up at 8h30 on a saturday morning)

sneaked an incredibly obscure final fantasy reference into a text i am preparing for my students this semester. bring your triple triad decks to my office hours kidz

TIL org-mode edition: C-x 8 RET zero width space RET inserts a zero-width space that prevents org-mode markup from taking effect, so e.g. /k/ is rendered as /k/ instead of k in exported files :cool: