JBanana's gemlog

The motivation for this is... unclear.

I am a software dev, but I hope not too write too much about that. I wrote a Gemini client, but I hope not to write too much about that. And I don't really want to tell you too much about my life.

So this will be fun.

Some posts

2025-12-09 Christina's questions for December 🤔
2025-12-04 Homeless dragon 🐉
2025-11-16 I didn't get free Disney+ 📽️
2025-11-08 Lunch 🍰
2025-10-21 Comparing json 🛠️
2025-10-13 Giving up 🪟
2025-10-11 Danger? 🚰
2025-10-07 Self-editing scripts 📜
2025-10-06 Oh, I knew that really. 🤦
2025-09-27 Proving Identity
2025-09-21 To Do 📋
2025-09-12 Familiarity making things normal ☕
2025-09-03 Christina's Questions for August 🤔
2025-09-02 Joining the jet set without a jet 🚄
2025-08-12 I didn't wreck the climate, honest! 🥵
2025-07-31 Tag milestone #️⃣
2025-07-25 Bloody Google 😖
2025-07-22 Wet bike 🚲⛈️
2025-07-01 No scripting, honest! 📜🙅
2025-06-28 "I'd never do this" sounds like a challenge 😈
2025-06-26 News headline of the day 📰
2025-06-24 Dangerous driving 💥
2025-06-18 Middle Eastern balance ⚖
2025-06-12 Greedy so-and-so 🍽️
2025-06-07 Mime should say something 🗨
2025-06-04 Thought for the day 📦
2025-05-25 Who's looking at this? 🤔
2025-04-28 Bug fixing as an avoidance behaviour 🐛
2025-04-17 Pointless auditing 😵
2025-04-11 I am become the avenger 🦹
2025-04-03 Picture pages 🖼
2025-03-12 Wordle clone 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
2025-03-10 Pwetty flowers 🌷
2025-02-18 Re: The Man Who Would Be King 👑
2025-02-06 I hate voicemail 📞
2025-02-04 Night of the Long Film 🎦
2025-01-30 Almost gone 🚴
2025-01-22 Hold on, this is what I *didn't* want 😕
2025-01-16 Quote of the day - museum section ⚒️
2025-01-06 End of Christmas 🎄🚫
2025-01-01 Another new year, more auto-generated resolutions 📅
2024-12-15 Polyglot tomfoolery ⬜
2024-12-14 Minor thing about git 💾
2024-12-11 Clarification of puddings 🍮
2024-10-27 Re: Night trains of Europe 🚆
2024-10-15 Copy-from-remote trick 📋
2024-10-08 Reader says... what? 📖
2024-09-18 Roof lock 2024 🏠🔏
2024-08-30 Tipping point card game 🃏
2024-08-20 The "prod6 problem" problem 😬
2024-07-16 Lake surprise ☱
2024-07-13 Stack overflow 🫗
2024-07-09 Things not to do in a shell script 🐚
2024-06-27 Bang! 🔫
2024-06-12 Re: Cold Tea?! ☕
2024-06-03 Outage and back of head ⛔🙆
2024-05-24 Hello, maple 🍁
2024-05-23 Up by its own bootstraps 🎮
2024-05-19 The prod6 problem 😬
2024-05-12 My cup doth not run over ☕
2024-05-01 Re: dashes 💨
2024-04-29 Weight of history 💀
2024-03-27 Five Questions, March 🤔
2024-03-24 Tag crawler reboot #️⃣ 👢
2024-03-21 Low expectations 🎞️
2024-03-19 How hard is a scroll bar? 💻
2024-03-16 Looping backwards
2024-03-15 Woolf through the door 📚
2024-03-13 What...for?! 📃
2024-03-07 Edlin 📝
2024-03-01 Nothing 🗨️
2024-02-01 Thumby release 🏃
2024-01-16 Objectives 🎯
2024-01-01 Tiny threads again 🧵
2023-12-31 New year, only slightly new resolutions 📅
2023-12-27 Tiny thread issues 🧵
2023-12-20 Advent tasks 🎄
2023-12-19 Christmas boxes 🎅
2023-12-16 Madness 👂
2023-12-07 Thumby editor 🔤
2023-11-16 "Exact phrase", please, Outlook 📧
2023-11-15 Thinking about hashtags 🧠#️⃣
2023-11-08 WhitespaceHex
2023-10-15 After nex, what next? 💻
2023-09-30 Interesting guess ✝️
2023-09-29 Clash of new and old 🛒
2023-09-22 Underscores in host names _
2023-08-21 Venn diagram of improbability ⭕⭕
2023-08-19 Improving mental health with software 🧠💻
2023-08-14 Brussels restaurant recommendations 🍽️
2023-07-27 Thumby app released 🎮😸
2023-07-16 Christina's 5 questions - July 2023 🤔
2023-06-27 Useless things? ➰🗿🤏
2023-06-18 Division, remainder, mod ➗%❓
2023-06-16 Huh? 🙃
2023-06-13 Variable scope acts like a devil for the user 👿
2023-06-01 Caller ID and scams ☎
2023-05-28 Indoor plumbing 🌊
2023-05-23 Big gold medal 🏅
2023-05-09 Code layout again ✍️
2023-05-08 Image galleries and writing a browser extension 🖼️
2023-05-02 Indoor skydiving 🪂
2023-04-20 Headphone charging UX 🎧
2023-03-18 Accidental portrait
2023-03-09 Abyss of links 🔗
2023-03-05 Christina's 5 questions for March 🤔
2023-03-02 Stay language suggestion 📢
2023-02-28 Notes on tldr hosting 🖧
2023-02-26 Gemini song words 🎶
2023-02-24 Mental 🧠
2023-02-16 Mmm, small talk! 🙊
2023-02-15 Bicycle, part 2 🚲
2023-02-14 Bicycle 🚲
2023-02-09 Thumby goodness
2023-02-07 Payment card psephology 💳
2023-02-03 I have credit card nostalgia. WTF? 💳
2023-01-31 Re: This is Bananas!
2023-01-29 Re: Validate email address using Regex in C++
2023-01-15 Re: RE: DNS oddity
2023-01-13 DNS oddity 🤨
2023-01-05 The JBanana Password Law 🔒
2023-01-03 Productivity 😠
2023-01-02 I used to take photos 📸
2022-12-30 Whitespace, part... 5? ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
2022-12-22 Merry Christmas 🎄
2022-12-08 Quote of the day - privacy edition
2022-12-01 Advent jam 🕯️
2022-11-10 Language 🇫🇷
2022-11-07 Enjoying Hummel 🎼🎹♫
2022-11-06 Expressing operations and psychology ➕
2022-10-20 A dolphin is a fish 🐬
2022-09-23 Having looked into Forth (a bit)
2022-09-18 White space, punctuation, Whitespace and Forth
2022-09-14 The end of the United Queendom 👑
2022-09-13 White space
2022-09-10 Fun and games 🧩
2022-09-06 Three Questions answered 💡
2022-09-05 Three Questions (5 was too hard) 🤔
2022-09-01 Quiet quitting 👋
2022-07-28 Whitespace, part 3 ⬜⬜⬜
2022-07-18 Re: The Dutch Baby Incident
2022-07-03 Web font sizes on mobile are... broken 🗚
2022-07-02 Re: A convention for gemlog tags
2022-06-30 Learning 📚
2022-06-21 Go where? 🗺️
2022-06-17 Christina's questions for June 🤔
2022-06-14 Mime says nothing 🗨️
2022-05-25 Whitespace, part 2 ⬜⬜
2022-05-24 Code smells 👃💩🤢
2022-05-15 Loopy links 🔄
2022-05-06 Hotel Pennsylvania
2022-05-03 Whitespace ⬜
2022-05-02 Thinking out loud about free speech
2022-04-24 An end-to-end test on a SpringBoot app
2022-04-13 Hot dogs and π
2022-04-09 tldr in gemtext 🖥️📚
2022-04-03 Re: Is There A Better Hard Drive Metaphor? [ 2022-04-03 ]
2022-03-23 Bird feeder, part 2 🐦
2022-03-22 Bad case bombing 🔠🔡
2022-03-15 Rolling Island 🌴
2022-03-12 Re: Rant: Ticket System
2022-03-08 Telephone scams ☎️
2022-03-03 Casus belli
2022-03-02 Sorted what? 😯
2022-02-27 Re: Documenting Projects (and a question)
2022-02-25 Roundup 🐄🐄
2022-02-21 Trying Spartan 🗡️
2022-02-16 My twopennorth on TLS 🔏
2022-02-15 Victoria Park pagoda 🍂⛩️
2022-02-12 Jemi - preview update ♊
2022-02-09 Literature (Litt-ritt-chah) 📖
2022-02-06 Finnish teletext 📺
2022-02-03 Link Confusion 🔗 and German news 📰
2022-02-02 Wordo
2022-02-01 Christina's 5 Questions for February 🤔
2022-01-30 Re: It's weird to be conscious 🤔
2022-01-24 Hashtags tweak #️, Code snippet of the day 💻
2022-01-23 Splitting off F1 posts 🏎️
2022-01-21 Rambling discontinuity 🚶
2022-01-19 New Delilah Dirk book being released (slowly) 👩⚔️
2022-01-17 A Pantoum 📜✍️
2022-01-12 Animation 🏃💨
2022-01-11 Reading 📖, finger 👇, inline links 🔗, no crawling 🕷
2022-01-10 Two hashtag responses 😲
2022-01-08 Things I learned from writing crawler 🕷️
2022-01-06 Christmas nearly over (and hashtags) 🎄
2022-01-04 Hashtags #️⃣♊
2021-12-31 New Year's resolutions 📅
2021-12-30 Types of person 🤠🎓🔧💼🎨🕵️👷
2021-12-28 Block languages 🤖
2021-12-24 Firepit 🔥
2021-12-21 Christmas news 🎄
2021-12-15 Screensaver nostalgia 🖥️
2021-12-14 Re: Broccoli: a Verb in Need of Meaning 🥦
2021-12-12 F1 all over, Verstappen wins 🏁
2021-12-08 Advent of discoveries 🎄
2021-12-07 December 2021 Five Questions 🤔
2021-12-06 Saudi Grand Prix 🏁💥
2021-12-02 Sad times when you lose the big people
2021-11-23 Holiday in November 🛥️
2021-11-20 Making GUIs just for fun
2021-11-17 Brazillian GP 🏁
2021-11-14 How many people is too many? 👪
2021-11-11 US and Mexican Grand Prix 🏁
2021-11-10 Nishla Smith 🎤
2021-11-03 Christina is back with 5 Questions! 🤔
2021-10-27 Recursive minimalism
2021-10-21 Answering my own Questions for October 🤔
2021-10-19 Questions for October 🤔
2021-10-18 Boats to many places 🚢
2021-10-16 Cheetah cam 🐆
2021-10-13 Boating 🚣 and Turkish GP 🏁 and camp fire blankets 🔥
2021-10-05 Legacy code, you say? ⌨️
2021-10-03 New news feed 📰
2021-09-26 Russian GP 🏁
2021-09-23 Italian Grand Prix, and Russia preview 🏁
2021-09-21 A Gemini favourite 🐆
2021-09-20 Jemi on Linux 😕
2021-09-19 Jemi: updated snapshot ♊
2021-09-15 Surprising moment 👩‍⚕️
2021-09-12 Wot pandemic? 😷
2021-09-06 Dutch Grand Prix 🏁
2021-09-01 Bird feeder issues 🐦
2021-08-19 Solitary
2021-08-18 I can't read 📚
2021-08-10 Too many photos? 📸
2021-08-08 Hungarian Grand Prix 🏁
2021-07-30 The worst thing I ever worked on
2021-07-27 SQL notes to self
2021-07-21 My turn to operate
2021-07-20 Clink of ice 🍹
2021-07-19 British GP 🏁
2021-07-16 Shower instructions 🚿
2021-07-14 Mmm, tea ☕
2021-07-10 Unit testing
2021-07-09 More stories
2021-07-05 Feedback, Gemini streaming
2021-07-03 Gemini maze
2021-07-02 Five Questions answered
2021-06-28 Stories updated
2021-06-26 Jemi: preview release
2021-06-24 Software dev-ing
2021-06-21 Random things
2021-06-18 Freedom for Geminauts!
2021-06-16 Small request to Geminauts
2021-06-13 Dad jokes II
2021-06-12 20 questions
2021-06-10 Shopping for introverts
2021-06-08 Ducks
2021-06-05 Port in two senses
2021-06-02 Five Questions answered
2021-06-01 Changes
2021-05-31 Piggy back bird babies
2021-05-23 Outage and outing
2021-05-19 Dad jokes
2021-05-18 Frustrations of the day
2021-05-15 Music listening
2021-05-14 Interesting times with farm animals
2021-05-11 Pandemic takeaways
2021-05-10 Frist!

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