version:       https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1
title:         Halfway to Mars
language:      en-US
home_page_url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/
feed_url:      gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/feed.json
user_comment:  While this is a YAML file, it’s primarily intended to be a pleasant way to write the capsule JSON Feed feed. So the `feed_url` links to a JSON file above.
_atom_compat:
  about:       All this is for Atom compatibility.
  id:          ec338df6-951a-42ac-a2c6-4d5b93157fd7
  feed_url:    gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/atom.xml

# LLM-prompt preamble
#
# I have a YAML file called `feed.yaml` where the top level is a mapping. It has a key in it called `items`, and `items`' value is a sequence of mappings. Craft me a `yq` call that returns a sequence of all entries in `items` where …

items:
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  id: d8f0cd91-fc38-4cab-aca1-931968b349ef
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2025-12-12T02:39:24Z
  content_text: I go back and standardize on both halves of “John Gruber of Daring Fireball” for link text. I’ll work on the other links to other people writing in other places later.
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  id: 86684853-1c6d-43fd-9a0a-e3ec94c77137
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal/os/
  date_modified: 2025-12-10T13:03:01Z
  content_text: I run `mq '.h' words/computing/ideal/os/index.gmi`, get annoyed with all the sections that have no text in them, and add text to them.
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  id: e271c8cb-4b09-4bec-82f2-fdc35f41d139
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal/os/
  date_modified: 2025-12-10T13:02:25Z
  content_text: I declare that my ideal OS will have a Spatial Finder, a term best explained by John Siracusa.
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  id: 9caf298f-5b28-4673-acf8-d05bf8ada921
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/start/
  date_modified: 2025-12-09T09:32:48Z
  content_text: I add Lupa to /start/ because sometimes, you really want to just see all the capsules out there with as little filtering as possible.
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  id: 1a7b7568-f369-41af-b5be-833f50c1659e
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal/os/
  date_modified: 2025-12-08T11:25:20Z
  content_text: I scribble a note asking myself “Can OS changes make a computer more, or less, a bicycle for the mind? Or is that entirely up to the user?” on my ideal-OS page.
-
  id: 692fd94e-7444-4c2a-9ebd-e75d59a401be
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/internet/weird-website-ideas/
  date_modified: 2025-12-05T05:54:43Z
  content_text: I float some website-look ideas that center around Atkinson-dithered images and having Newton MessagePad-colored green backlighting.
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  id: 8e7fa87a-d41c-4666-8e0c-99552fca1b5c
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal/os/
  date_modified: 2025-12-05T04:56:03Z
  content_text: I add a link to Ian Duncan’s CRDT Dictionary to my ideal-OS page…without even reading the entire thing beforehand.
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  id: bf458737-ddfc-46fd-8c06-8be829f1fae2
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-12-04T23:52:58Z
  content_text: I celebrate Meta’s hiring of Alan Dye.
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  id: a920cae5-866b-49a9-b679-145faf70ff7a
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal/os/
  date_modified: 2025-12-02T08:29:50Z
  content_text: I declare that my ideal OS will have a look-and-feel strongly reminiscent of NewtonOS 2.1, as featured on the MessagePad 2000.
-
  id: b61e6915-538b-4441-a502-19ac4a11b90a
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/extra-keyboard-shortcuts/
  date_modified: 2025-11-19T11:45:09Z
  content_text: I add a one-item page of keyboard shortcuts I manually add, starting with ⌃⌥D for “Duplicate Tab” in my Web browsers.
-
  id: 6cc1882e-6fed-44a8-8e13-67d7b2f0332e
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/internet/weird-website-ideas/
  date_modified: 2025-11-12T05:21:38Z
  content_text: I float the idea of just serving up Markdown/Gemtext/PDFs instead of HTML as a weird website idea.
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  id: f6ae8567-0aed-4fc8-b24e-610fb958b0ed
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal/os/
  date_modified: 2025-11-11T10:02:46Z
  content_text: I document affordances I want in my ideal OS for scattering important information in multiple levels of a directory hierarchy.
-
  id: 38c0e663-dba7-473b-aabe-2ec79a92c9cc
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/slashes/
  date_modified: 2025-11-10T07:40:03Z
  content_text: I add /slashes/, a list of slash pages on my capsule. One is new; the rest aren’t.
-
  id: 84936419-1d34-490a-8b2c-63dda0d316ab
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/images/self-promotion/
  date_modified: 2025-11-10T07:02:05Z
  content_text: I publish self-promotional images that double as a quick reminder of some of Mac OS’s system fonts’ names.
-
  id: 02489892-79b7-4faf-bcd4-fcbffb84cc3d
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/gemini/put-your-capsules-url-in-your-gemtext-pages/
  date_modified: 2025-11-09T08:40:47Z
  content_text: I float the idea of, but do not endorse, adding an HTTPS proxy link to all your capsule’s pages as a way to get a multiply-useful link-to-self on all your pages.
-
  id: 2676b228-9581-46a9-bb84-cfe4070d00e3
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/unpublished/banger-tweets.gmi
  date_modified: 2025-11-09T00:23:20Z
  content_text: I start collecting banger tweets to maybe show you later.
-
  id: d218805b-573e-49c7-9e7e-2e270229a83a
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal/os/
  date_modified: 2025-11-08T08:16:52Z
  content_text: I add bits about XHTML 2, UI-element transparency, and filesystem layout to my ideal-OS page.
-
  id: bc0da76f-91ba-4249-bb8c-aba7387a07bd
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal/
  date_modified: 2025-11-07T18:56:30Z
  content_text: I add a link to <https://radiant.computer/> in my ideal-computing directory listing. Hooray for .mollyhead files.
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  id: 9a70388a-1a0a-4cc9-9ea5-ac65def5359f
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-11-07T17:36:25Z
  content_text: I note that iOS 26.1 lets you swipe left and right at the bottom of Music to go to the previous/next songs.
-
  id: 0b48d7a8-ca7f-44e6-a67c-8cbd0aa49c77
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal/os/
  date_modified: 2025-11-07T09:13:38Z
  content_text: I declare that, in my ideal OS, the optimal roundedness of UI elements is not zero because unrounded corners wouldn’t match the modern (unhinted) fonts in use.
-
  id: 1920dbf8-a78b-4b23-868e-3b49069df8a5
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/
  date_modified: 2025-11-07T08:10:36Z
  content_text: I switch to markdownlint-cli2 and mostly remove a bunch of trailing spaces throughout the entire capsule.
-
  id: b9f9b11d-b969-40c8-a849-61549c41c094
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal/os/
  date_modified: 2025-11-06T09:26:10Z
  content_text: I declare that my ideal operating system will have really good command-line completion, and lazily crib fish’s setup.
-
  id: bb56b629-8d91-4fd5-999e-d52e49678ef8
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-11-03T02:05:41Z
  content_text: I hand out Halloween candy for the first time.
-
  id: d3553782-d54a-4df0-8f33-e621c12e5d23
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-11-03T01:28:51Z
  content_text: I direct you to Armin Ronacher’s “90%” where he describes what responsible engineering looks like when AI is writing ≈90% of the code in a codebase.
-
  id: eb093aac-817f-487e-8aa6-38488492994f
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/programs/
  date_modified: 2025-11-02T23:34:56Z
  content_text: I polish up /programs/ by adding gitup(1), weeding out the losers, improving verbiage, and make its inter-item spacing the same as …/diff-ers/.
-
  id: 9d5b73fc-6ba5-46d2-ad92-b2fe63b933da
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/diff-ers/
  date_modified: 2025-11-02T21:12:38Z
  content_text: I add homeport/dyff, a YAML-specific diff utility, to diff-ers. Seems popular with Kubernetes people.
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  id: 63879b73-ab45-4428-b76b-b9d30091cf4c
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-10-27T08:10:54Z
  content_text: I gawk at org-social, a social network of emacs users who upload large org-mode files to their websites.
-
  id: 89b7131a-40ef-4018-8495-682e16f9471d
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/diff-ers/
  date_modified: 2025-10-22T11:48:26Z
  content_text: I publish “Diff-ers”, a page that explains (to myself, at least) what all the different git diff things I use do.
-
  id: 07b635f5-e454-4cce-afc6-e4b11e8bf592
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-10-21T03:59:21Z
  content_text: I am pleasantly surprised to learn that Obsidian doesn’t insist on you getting a commercial license for it anymore if you use it to make money.
-
  id: 7b99ce39-f9a7-4070-8364-e17c0f8d5fa4
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-10-19T05:31:51Z
  content_text: I switch my capsule’s text editor to a proportional font and tell you I did.
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  id: 59ea170e-2a67-476c-95a5-8b8ffbd72158
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-10-19T05:14:56Z
  content_text: I finally get around to reading Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares’ book, _If Anyone Builds It, Everybody Dies_. I don’t review it and kind of just hem and haw about its contents.
-
  id: 5f67824a-cb81-43e5-b6b0-67d9bc2b9cc5
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-10-14T06:06:36Z
  content_text: I share thoughts on lossless audio. I like it, but my ears aren’t NEARLY good enough to tell it from high-bitrate lossy.
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  id: cc3e59e8-cf41-4200-bc17-a2a02b40aeee
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal/os/
  date_modified: 2025-10-12T03:59:41Z
  content_text: I add a link to an article about QNX on my ideal-OS page, as well as a containing section of links to get you into the mindspace of how different things could be.
-
  id: 1378581f-a0ff-4e0c-935b-1d940c6aea9c
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/feed.yaml
  date_modified: 2025-10-11T23:22:32Z
  content_text: I add an LLM-prompt preamble to the capsule YAML feed so I can get LLMs to spit out good yq(1) commands with less thinking about descriptions and more ⌘C ⌘V.
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  id: 31e3b7a3-2c82-4fd1-b44a-67453c57dbc2
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/reviews/books/
  date_modified: 2025-10-05T07:34:11Z
  content_text: I move my _Always with Honor_ page to /words/reviews/books/ even though it’s less of a proper book review and more like an extraordinarily sloppy Let’s Read. You’ve heard of Let’s Plays, right?
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  id: 78a131fd-f36f-45de-8ab9-32231b31fcfc
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-10-05T05:53:04Z
  content_text: I grouse about how pressing the power button on Windows machines won’t power down the computer anymore.
-
  id: 4916a792-27b9-493b-a035-88e15a064300
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/about/
  date_modified: 2025-10-04T07:19:26Z
  content_text: I stop referring to my capsule as a “site” and describe lossless WebP and its limitations a bit better on the About page.
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  id: 4bfed2f9-700b-4bfc-8ea6-774681911d49
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/roophloch/history/
  date_modified: 2025-10-04T07:10:43Z
  content_text: I explain that I don’t take my laptop innawoods for ROOPHLOCH (or any other posting, really) because there’s dust out there.
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  id: d7a3de26-45cc-4f1a-9a33-23c345244555
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-10-04T04:31:50Z
  content_text: I offer a very limited defense of RGB backlighting on keyboards, as someone who has deliberately dodged RGB backlighting on his keyboards.
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  id: af894f28-bd54-4e81-95c2-5e36a7e16ab9
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/books/wrangel--always-with-honor/
  date_modified: 2025-10-04T03:25:11Z
  content_text: I finish up Wrangel’s _Always with Honor_, which contains an extended excerpt or excerpts of Wrangel père’s memoirs. What happens during and after the revolution is recognizable to anyone who’s familiar with 2020’s midsummer madness, The Dark Knight Rises, and/or Half-Life 2.
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  id: 6918c9d4-76e6-4524-927f-11f0f2eb9988
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-10-01T11:01:40Z
  content_text: I make a final ROOPHLOCH post while hiking largely thanks to voice recognition. It’s rambly.
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  id: 78d0f44b-67ee-432d-bb0e-e928d4e08e09
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/internet/weird-website-ideas/
  date_modified: 2025-09-28T17:29:55Z
  content_text: I expand “light mode and dark mode are nothing alike” into “high-contrast-mode preferences multiply the designs you can have by two again” and add in “make your URLs look like they’re Substack-hosted even when they’re not”. I also throw in a link that isn’t mentioned or even obliquely referred to in the text. No, the “Weirdtopia” link was there previously.
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  id: ed422f4a-14f7-4d58-b8c9-8e05e3384d96
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-09-18T22:26:49Z
  content_text: I poast about late-afternoon bug bites and, in a separate post, cougars.
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  id: dd54b16a-15a2-4dea-9b9d-d3f44c0f7100
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/books/wrangel--always-with-honor/
  date_modified: 2025-09-16T06:09:39Z
  content_text: I finish up the last of _Always with Honor_. Not the worst ending. All that’s left is appendixes.
-
  id: bfe5ae47-e2c3-4297-a4c3-a336b21b30cc
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/books/wrangel--always-with-honor/
  date_modified: 2025-09-15T05:51:08Z
  content_text: I get through two more chapters of _Always with Honor_. Only one chapter remains. It’s looking very over for our protagonist.
-
  id: 852ad1ae-2ad2-407b-bb33-99610836c025
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-09-14T02:12:28Z
  content_text: I mutter to myself out loud how I’m posting less now that I’ve resolved to post outside this month.
-
  id: 371ed085-67d6-4af2-a118-b95d36c9c9e0
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-09-14T02:00:27Z
  content_text: I — well, “apologize” isn’t the right word — come clean about how the last Scrawlspace post ended up not being 100% ROOPHLOCH-compliant.
-
  id: 20488de6-b021-4cd4-a54e-e7bb07275d9d
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal/os/
  date_modified: 2025-09-13T21:20:54Z
  content_text: I add a section for notes on the input system to my ideal-OS page.
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  id: dd7f966f-ac2b-4c5b-8b6d-2e4246590122
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-09-10T00:04:17Z
  content_text: I tell you I went on a hike and bore you with things that are only barely related to the hike — not the hike itself.
-
  id: d99ecdac-200d-46e1-b5ca-9567a956c329
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/about/
  date_modified: 2025-09-06T19:21:56Z
  content_text: I move the contents of /about/flow/ to /about/ and remove /about/flow/ and begrudgingly put in a redirect for a page that’s only a couple hours old.
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  id: fd020b5c-d5d1-4989-b46d-9bdee7c9a9f6
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/internet/nice-personal-website/
  date_modified: 2025-09-06T17:32:39Z
  content_text: I clarify that LLMs won’t just munge your website beyond your ability to restore it to sanity unless they’re hooked into your text editor and have free rein over the contents of it.
-
  id: af91139c-7363-439e-8c36-5c2e0477e0d1
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/about/flow/
  date_modified: 2025-09-06T17:26:58Z
  content_text: I move a description of my publishing workflow to /about/flow/.
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  id: 221f8a64-8f8a-4e1c-8d8d-95b445dd9072
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/books/wrangel--always-with-honor/
  date_modified: 2025-09-06T16:42:32Z
  content_text: I get through chapter 15 of _Always with Honor_. One guy goes nuts and 250−200=600.
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  id: 446d26d2-adde-4bd3-8a37-01def2b98a6d
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/internet/nice-personal-website/
  date_modified: 2025-09-06T12:33:53Z
  content_text: 'I add Justin Wong’s “Notes on monospace, fonts, ascii, unicode: A collection of TILs and resources” to Nice Personal Website.'
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  id: 5f74a853-5eab-4833-95f4-b7acde73e871
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-09-05T20:04:38Z
  content_text: I make the first end-to-end ROOPHLOCH-compliant post of September 2025. It’s mostly disconnected rambling. I think there are more asterisms in this Scrawlspace post (2) than in any other Scrawlspace post of mine.
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  id: 71b0ca4d-c00f-4cc9-9bd4-30ac930520ce
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-09-04T07:04:59Z
  content_text: I remove a ROOPHLOCHish post that doesn’t meet my newer, tightened ROOPHLOCH qualifications. I’m trying to not be the sloppiest entrant, here.
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  id: 1d4d44a5-7963-4cbb-bf45-83561d002bb3
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/roophloch/history/
  date_modified: 2025-09-03T06:05:00Z
  content_text: I publish a log of my ROOPHLOCH entries so we can log and track how wild (or not) I get outside.
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  id: 7c605acb-95b7-4449-adde-fd0c1a979df3
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-09-03T00:33:08Z
  content_text: I ask the dumb questions.
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  id: 8988b4e1-6058-49fe-856b-acb3eb76f8ec
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/internet/mobile-indifferent-design/
  date_modified: 2025-08-23T20:32:50Z
  content_text: I publish “Mobile-indifferent design”, an exhortation to refuse to care about what your new indie website looks like on a phone.
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  id: e1c9f396-fd83-42de-bc3f-a1038a68d8ac
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/
  date_modified: 2025-08-23T20:14:16Z
  content_text: I stick a ’ at the end of the two “others” directories in the …/words/ hierarchy to match …/images/ and …/audio/. I also put in status-31 perma-redirects because Cool URIs Don’t Change™.
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  id: 7db40fc5-bd33-4bd0-b086-40743280f70f
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-08-21T18:11:09Z
  content_text: I come out in favor of removing XSL processors from browser engines not because it makes Google’s work easier (it does), but because it makes Andreas Kling’s and the Ladybird guys’ job easier.
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  id: 064cebbf-085b-427b-8c55-fbcf4459fbad
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-08-21T17:50:13Z
  content_text: I tell you to get a ginormous single-tub sink (not dual) and a faucet modeled on commercial kitchens’ designs to make cooking less unpleasant.
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  id: 448eda59-6932-4a45-b760-c39b960f2330
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/epigrams/
  date_modified: 2025-08-19T20:18:28Z
  content_text: I throw up a page of epigrams, but it has no epigrams in it — just a half-baked non-apology and some muttering to myself about the directory structure of related items. Really, you should only visit this page now if you’re bored and want to see the sausage getting made.
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  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-08-19T06:02:52Z
  content_text: I hear tell that Starlink is going to offer a 500 kbit/sec plan for $5/month. I do the math and conclude that if I were to go on that plan, a lot of that will be eaten up by app updates from all my computing devices.
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  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/
  date_modified: 2025-08-18T23:12:53Z
  content_text: I shill plp13/qman in both /…/programs/ and /…/ideal/os/ after reading the README and playing around with it for, like, ninety seconds.
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  id: e79f60a1-c49e-47aa-86ff-f16c9c071f0e
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-08-12T18:28:42Z
  content_text: I update towards “the universe is mocking me for posting about how updated my Debian Stable packages are” with the release of Syncthing 2.0.0.
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  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/images/
  date_modified: 2025-08-12T01:23:07Z
  content_text: I explain the limits of a claim of “all my WebPs are losslessly-compressed” in /images/, and limit the claim to only the images I’ve made.
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  id: 7891b191-588d-4634-a2ac-db11e09df72f
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/about/
  date_modified: 2025-08-12T00:47:12Z
  content_text: I explain why I don’t cull old feed entries on /about/ — it’s so people can figure out how much/little this capsule had on it with only a few months’ worth of work put into it.
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  id: 54b0dd51-3e80-44a9-8dca-42fdc43b5a45
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/feeds/
  date_modified: 2025-08-12T00:36:40Z
  content_text: I offer up the source YAML feed to anyone who wants it. It’s nicer to read than the derived JSON or Atom feeds.
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  id: a9bfcc1d-0255-4da8-8492-a94119e85076
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-08-12T00:20:54Z
  content_text: I opine that Apple should sherlock Scriptable on the grounds that one should not need to run a third-party app just to have Shortcuts that have the power of a real programming language in them.
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  id: 472ad2e7-4e77-4b70-bd2d-90508e479dcb
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-08-11T02:24:06Z
  content_text: I get egg on my face — after doing a victory dance of how I’m using Homebrew a bit less and Debian’s own packages more because they’re just as updated…the webp encoder gets updated a bit.
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  id: 68c91bdb-a18b-41da-a0f7-7ea6a7341c67
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-08-10T20:33:59Z
  content_text: I do a clean install of Debian Trixie, the new Stable. It was more of an adventure than most clean installs because I had to update my BIOS to do it to my satisfaction. I also tell you, in a separate post, about what’s new in Trixie as far as I care.
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  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal/os/
  date_modified: 2025-08-08T21:31:17Z
  content_text: I link to Steven Wittens’ thinking on how to replace HTML+CSS+JavaScript with something saner on my ideal-OS page. Also I twiddle the “Status:” line a little bit.
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  id: 15b0a331-5709-42f3-8afa-ab78869fb7e6
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-08-08T07:52:19Z
  content_text: I notice that ChatGPT can whip me up little bits of JavaScript, but not a whole Apple Shortcuts shortcut.
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  id: 926d7fea-cf0b-4334-8b25-9126322e6ca5
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-08-07T08:35:32Z
  content_text: I wonder if 1,921,453 is six digits in hexadecimal. It is, and it corresponds to a pretty royal-blue color.
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  id: 0a591b95-7ac5-4a88-aee5-1062d86b5aef
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-08-05T06:23:08Z
  content_text: I correct the most recent post by replacing “OFFLFIRSOCH” with “ROOPHLOCH”. It’s never been 40°C in March here. Thanks, Solderpunk!
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  id: a25194fd-6927-4400-8375-c70be36d1ec6
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-08-03T21:19:23Z
  content_text: I think “ROOPHLOCH” should be once every 11 or 13 months, not 12.
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  id: c17e8093-4e6f-48fd-a8b1-b1ab5d23e120
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-08-03T21:05:47Z
  content_text: 'I offer a thought about the (quite old) Solderpunk post titled “Thoughs on Mastodon and Decentralisation”: the existence of Mastodon servers other than mastodon.social isn’t, or wouldn’t be, useful to me.'
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  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-08-03T05:03:17Z
  content_text: I see a works-only-in-Chrome website-authoring tip and it makes me want to scream.
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  id: e679fb6b-5bbb-4eb6-8d77-013039f307db
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/start/web/
  date_modified: 2025-08-03T00:36:17Z
  content_text: I dump all my “how to find indie websites” links into a gemtext file and publish it.
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  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/internet/nice-personal-website/
  date_modified: 2025-07-30T23:14:41Z
  content_text: I add The HTML Hobbyist to the Nice Personal Website page.
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  id: 100145b4-237a-430a-b349-62a5442fbcbf
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/start/
  date_modified: 2025-07-29T10:19:20Z
  content_text: I add the Collaborative Directory of Geminispace to /start/. The CDG has a Recent Additions page, which is something I’ve been missing for a while.
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  id: 6228477a-0b57-4cd7-8427-75ff395fd053
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/internet/weird-website-ideas/
  date_modified: 2025-07-29T02:34:41Z
  content_text: I add “Weird website ideas”, because clearly the best thing to do on Gemini is talk about website art direction.
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  id: 7cf2a696-e378-449e-83ec-f6a0cc7562df
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/internet/nice-personal-website/
  date_modified: 2025-07-27T01:55:14Z
  content_text: I double— no, TRIPLE down on the “you can have an unstyled website and it’ll be just fine” meme by linking to <https://danluu.com/> and <https://stroustrup.com/>.
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  id: 2683f349-cb4d-43c5-ad5f-45d9bf01f8b4
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/internet/nice-personal-website/
  date_modified: 2025-07-27T01:39:37Z
  content_text: I direct the casual reader’s attention to “this is the site that tells you where to find a host” in Nice Personal Website, because that’s pretty important if you want people to be able to see your site without looking at it on your own personal computer.
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  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/internet/nice-personal-website/
  date_modified: 2025-07-26T05:16:22Z
  content_text: I link to the mozz.us portal so Nice Personal Website is more easily shillable to people who don’t have a Gemini client installed.
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  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/internet/nice-personal-website/
  date_modified: 2025-07-25T02:50:41Z
  content_text: I add a link to a page showing used-on-Geocities-pages tileable website backgrounds on Nice Personal Website. Some of the tiles I recognize from, like, Windows 95 and BeOS.
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  id: 1db3707a-5239-4481-9742-8565129fd1b5
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/roll/
  date_modified: 2025-07-21T08:12:29Z
  content_text: I add a second website to the ’roll and separate the two of them away from the capsules.
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  id: 15025949-2f1b-4e75-ab2b-ed84d0247dd9
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal/os/
  date_modified: 2025-07-21T01:55:37Z
  content_text: I make a few scattered updates to my ideal-OS page centered around automatic transitions between light mode and dark mode. I also establish an upper limit of how much bouba I want to tolerate in the UI. And say the builtin automation will have easy import/export to YAML because you want “make an Automator workflow” to be the kind of thing an LLM or a human nerd can spit out.
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  id: 256b94cd-d854-4ab2-9f11-941bd9a61316
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-07-18T05:06:07Z
  content_text: I remind you that you can just fork abandoned free-software projects and make them your own.
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  id: f7e6b788-9b3b-4182-88bd-0faaa6fd3512
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-07-18T02:37:07Z
  content_text: I realize that using the Nintendo Music app means I’m one of those people who rents music.
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  id: 2fa11e47-0973-4af7-957a-a5d3321c86fe
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-07-16T00:38:11Z
  content_text: I eat a microwaveable chicken vindaloo meal and fill up on the kefir needed to cool the burn.
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  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-07-12T07:20:34Z
  content_text: I list all the files in my capsule’s “unpublished” directory. There are 22 of them.
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  id: 8a6ec187-78cf-4aa1-9fbe-8cb5d117f03c
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-07-13T20:18:58Z
  content_text: I get a Switch 2 and bore you about it a month after the fact.
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  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/books/wrangel--always-with-honor/
  date_modified: 2025-07-07T05:49:34Z
  content_text: I get through two chapters — 12 and 13 — of _Always with Honor_.
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  id: 00e22448-7e1f-4fee-af7e-2816f2d2fa9e
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-07-05T05:59:28Z
  content_text: Piggybacking off of others’ discussions of not caring about making stuff in/for Gemini, I describe why I’m not writing any programs in/for Gemini and just put stuff in my capsule instead. It’s mostly laziness.
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  id: 578d9a6e-8ece-4da8-bb68-42af33ecccc8
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/i-think-about/
  date_modified: 2025-07-05T05:19:52Z
  content_text: 'I add Words I Think About. Its first and only entry: “All input is error”, from Elon Musk.'
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  id: cda8fc2c-546b-40d0-a065-90e68a6644f4
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-07-05T05:06:05Z
  content_text: I pack up a computer to give away. My to-do lists are unchanged, which is a minor bummer.
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  id: 1cd8660e-d6a0-4e93-8155-8c7e14a279eb
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/internet/nice-personal-website/
  date_modified: 2025-07-02T05:01:57Z
  content_text: I add <https://simplesite.ayra.ch/> to the Nice Personal Website page. It describes how websites were made in the late 90s.
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  id: 83754535-5916-4dc3-a8d2-f848af443713
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-06-29T17:23:42Z
  content_text: I point out that Microsoft, at least back in the day, had a “sending unsolicited commercial e-mail is a firing offense” rule.
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  id: 6d9b9774-96d7-45c7-bcfd-561a39bcce03
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-06-24T20:46:45Z
  content_text: I notice that the Nintendo Switch app on iPadOS doesn’t support multitasking or resizing, and Slide Over (the one relevant escape hatch) is going away in iPadOS 26.
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  id: 9a502c05-016a-421b-86b7-2643b3c9c5dc
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/start/
  date_modified: 2025-06-16T08:03:41Z
  content_text: I suggest typing common words into Gemini search engines as a discovery mechanism when the aggregators run dry.
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  id: cfd30e5a-7188-410c-80b4-0da3756d6135
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/books/wrangel--always-with-honor/
  date_modified: 2025-06-16T03:05:38Z
  content_text: I get through chapter 11 of _Always with Honor_, where the agrarian question is tackled and settled.
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  id: 043cdd8e-e096-4f2e-8e74-bf6d66aaf82d
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/books/wrangel--always-with-honor/
  date_modified: 2025-06-13T06:06:41Z
  content_text: I get through chapter 9 of _Always with Honor_. The Whites aren’t doin’ too hot, but they’re rebuilding.
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  id: 5d45610d-aace-4c06-90f1-3e3ae1426b01
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/images/
  date_modified: 2025-06-11T08:06:24Z
  content_text: I tell you how to verify that WebP images are losslessly compressed. Pester your friendly neighborhood file(1) maintainer to do this!
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  id: e794edae-5257-42c9-808a-8c49626b4cd6
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/gemini/done-differently/
  date_modified: 2025-06-09T06:45:41Z
  content_text: I publish “How I would have done Gemini differently”, a short list of gemtext tweaks I would have liked.
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  id: a4c5c6f4-dae6-4dd7-a01e-d4f0c369a92a
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/internet/nice-personal-website/
  date_modified: 2025-06-05T23:40:31Z
  content_text: I add dynomight’s writing tips to Nice Personal Website.
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  id: 9668bd95-378c-4760-9c21-87d808521251
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/audio/
  date_modified: 2025-06-05T06:59:29Z
  content_text: I unveil /audio/, a companion to /images/. There’s only one thing in it, and you’ve heard it already if you’re a Scrawlspace completionist.
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  id: 9f0fe628-1e2b-4571-8d80-82e1a5cdcc29
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-06-05T04:32:55Z
  content_text: I stare at “. —” in a thing from Schopenhauer and look around with a puzzled look on my face.
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  id: 8d5cd94e-03ab-4d44-9b0c-d58a818fc473
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-06-01T21:51:01Z
  content_text: I bore you with scattered thoughts on the Switch 2’s release next week and also Apple’s WWDC 2025 the week after.
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  id: b3176526-245d-4397-baad-a22f4f802586
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal/setup/
  date_modified: 2025-06-01T04:54:08Z
  content_text: I publish “My ideal setup”, a companion piece to “My ideal computer” and “My ideal OS”. Of note are the extra-thin keyboard tray to solve a longstanding ergonomics problem and the 4K-by-5K 163ppi 4:3 monitors.
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  id: a84eb314-e6ef-4fc8-ba89-740e72f3cd6a
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/fzf/
  date_modified: 2025-05-28T08:20:27Z
  content_text: I show you how I use (fd -e … | fzf) to open up files way faster and more smoothly than hitting the tab key a bunch to dig down into a deep directory hierarchy.
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  id: 5d9acabb-2a40-44ba-9d70-930218d497b8
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal/computer/
  date_modified: 2025-05-27T00:57:13Z
  content_text: I publish “My ideal computer”.
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  id: 0f76b8f3-bc3a-40f4-8f17-573bf783c2ed
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal/
  date_modified: 2025-05-26T22:50:46Z
  content_text: I rejigger my ideal-OS page to be part of an “ideal” group, with an ideal-computer page to join shortly.
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  id: ac67b144-040c-45a7-8348-cc912e51b85a
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-05-26T03:58:38Z
  content_text: I tell you about OmniFocus’s backend, a DIYable WebDAV server, after reading Wim Cools’ “Ejectable Apps” blog post.
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  id: 948794d0-7027-4a1c-b912-2ee76d0805e1
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-05-26T03:51:01Z
  content_text: I un-pin my plug for _If Anyone Builds It, Everybody Dies_ and put it where it should be chronologically.
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  id: 66535d17-a9bd-4980-b490-b44bbacff5fe
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-05-25T04:28:39Z
  content_text: Posted just below my _If Anyone Builds It, Everybody Dies_ plug, I direct you to The Art of Noise’s “The Ambient Collection”, where the first track is 43 seconds long and is titled “Opus 4”.
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  id: 04f77e6e-ea89-452c-a0ad-99eaae0503fd
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal-os/
  date_modified: 2025-05-24T03:47:17Z
  content_text: On my ideal-OS page, I declare that any little niggling deviation from platform conventions (like command-line argument passing) is grounds for a native rewrite instead of just using the software directly.
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  id: 20d1f754-5a95-43be-ac7f-c87afc66d0e9
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-05-22T02:06:25Z
  content_text: Posted just below my exhortation to pre-order a copy of Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares’ book, _If Anyone Builds It, Everybody Dies_, I figure “don’t put a Git repository in Dropbox” doesn’t apply if the .git directory is there and gone in only 15 minutes and all work happens only on one computer during that time.
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  id: 986a7fe4-1e83-45bf-bd9c-4cdca43b44e6
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/books/wrangel--always-with-honor/
  date_modified: 2025-05-21T03:49:58Z
  content_text: I get to page 150 of Wrangel’s _Always with Honor_.
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  id: 827d9dbe-ecdd-43bb-bdf9-7a6b57a87f67
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/
  date_modified: 2025-05-19T07:08:16Z
  content_text: I revive the “best viewed on a monitor” eye-roll at all the “best viewed in Netscape Navigator” and “best viewed in Internet Explorer” GIFs from the mid-to-late 90s…but I then kick it up a notch.
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  id: f8353801-e19c-4968-a032-a8d280e0616d
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-05-19T06:50:28Z
  content_text: Posted just below my exhortation to pre-order a copy of Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares’ book, _If Anyone Builds It, Everybody Dies_, I remember seeing someone say nice things about the format of RFCs — hard-wrapped plain text formatted for printing out on paper. I then assert that unabashedly-hypertext nicely-formatted HTML is the better option, if you can put in the work.
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  id: 526e8fbe-e8b4-4e16-abd3-7ffcb8a9b83f
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-05-19T05:10:46Z
  content_text: I pin my exhortation to pre-order a copy of Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares’ book, _If Anyone Builds It, Everybody Dies_ by…putting a pushpin emoji in the heading and resolving, for a week at least, to start typing out new items BELOW it instead of starting out with the new item above all the other ones. Imagine how annoying this would be if I were using a static-site generator.
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  id: e70ef3e0-b83d-40ff-a25c-9d0305e22524
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/internet/nice-personal-website/
  date_modified: 2025-05-19T03:24:20Z
  content_text: I note on Nice Personal Website that (1) version-control systems are GREAT for when you’ve messed up your own website and can’t easily fix it yourself (2) LLMs will frequently mess up your own website in ways you can’t easily fix yourself.
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  id: 0c037181-9029-47d0-aaed-1afb0ddd6fa7
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/books/wrangel--always-with-honor/
  date_modified: 2025-05-19T02:23:11Z
  content_text: I finish reading Part I of Pyotr Wrangel’s _Always with Honor_, along with Appendix I. I have almost nothing to say about what I’ve read.
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  id: 3df7335a-d1b4-4e5c-b4e8-5f3292891245
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-05-17T05:07:53Z
  content_text: I exhort you to preorder a copy of Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares’ book, _If Anyone Builds It, Everybody Dies_.
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  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/internet/nice-personal-website/
  date_modified: 2025-05-17T03:28:13Z
  content_text: I add https://deadsimplesites.com/ to my Nice Personal Website page…and also re-structure the categories so they’re clearer and more finely grained.
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  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal-os/
  date_modified: 2025-05-15T17:35:41Z
  content_text: I declare that my ideal OS will ship with a static-site generator.
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  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/internet/nice-personal-website/
  date_modified: 2025-05-15T17:09:30Z
  content_text: I add a couple more links on Nice Personal Website.
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  id: 9494cb23-69b1-4f6f-8685-2232314a66d8
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal-os/
  date_modified: 2025-05-14T06:39:46Z
  content_text: On my ideal-OS page, I say “What if we bundled an ePub viewer? And all the highlights and marginalia were in a Markdown file instead of a Federighi-knows-where location? Or maybe a file full of YAML documents instead of Markdown?”
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  id: 5b1de66d-05f5-4104-b5af-3337234b694f
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-05-14T06:14:38Z
  content_text: I see a good explanation of why old people talk about the past (at least some of the time), and share it with you.
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  id: 4c1d97ef-be64-4422-9417-d33f5cdcfc83
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/books/wrangel--always-with-honor/
  date_modified: 2025-05-11T13:43:08Z
  content_text: I start reading Pyotr Wrangel’s _Always with Honor_.
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  id: 5785cf83-4a64-49a5-b50e-a68c881e4f21
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-05-09T06:52:47Z
  content_text: I see someone’s prompt to turn an LLM into a really good executive assistant slash performance coach, and mull over whether I want to do this kind of thing myself.
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  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-05-09T05:21:26Z
  content_text: I copy down a snippet of a blog post that boils down to “I have LLMs improve my writing by generating critical Hacker News comments”.
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  id: 534161d2-55d8-432c-8663-fff0d204e438
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/about/
  date_modified: 2025-05-06T08:17:11Z
  content_text: I explain, in /about/, one of the _stylistic_ benefits of not bothering to have anything more handholdy than a bare server-generated directory listing of files and directories.
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  id: 4a1bf7fd-9145-4225-914b-e4f1462b9a20
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-05-05T07:34:39Z
  content_text: I think about how one can share something complicated with other people over the Internet. Windows programs compare shockingly favorably.
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  id: 3ed7754f-7ea2-4fd9-9032-989645fb9e28
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-05-04T16:17:05Z
  content_text: I wonder aloud if having gemini(7) is worth the work it would place on distribution packagers and the FreeBSD people, and strongly hint that the answer is obviously “no”.
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  id: 6d48eb50-c269-476c-ae5b-1d1cf6b831ab
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/images/No%20bold%2C%20no%20italics%2C%20no%20inline%20links%2C%20final%20destination.png
  date_modified: 2025-05-04T15:52:35Z
  content_text: I add my first bit of Gemini propaganda, courtesy of Yuji Oshimoto’s 04b03 font set at 16 and 8 points and relevant prior art. I also decide that the contents of /images/ may be changed around without adding in redirects afterwards, and let people know about this decision.
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  id: 7e33e006-7a29-4ccc-8959-c1f14e3c4064
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/images/
  date_modified: 2025-04-28T02:24:50Z
  content_text: I add images/.
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  id: ef9ac5dd-c986-4e62-9be5-73c62bbfd3d3
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/programs/
  date_modified: 2025-04-28T00:56:47Z
  content_text: I add yassinebridi/serpl, which I have not used myself, to my list of programs.
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  id: b41aa483-fd8b-4707-ba64-dffc0309c7ae
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/others/
  date_modified: 2025-04-27T02:38:41Z
  content_text: Not that you REALLY care, but I moved /words/parthenon/ into /words/others/parthenon/ because I’m starting to collect others’ words as well. Of course, since Cool URIs Don’t Change™, I’ve redirected the old to the new. Unless you forgot the trailing slash at the end in YOUR link, in which case that’s a bridge too far and you’re SOL.
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  id: b2c221a1-8242-4d2c-ba57-5d4aea557eb2
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/others/paul-graham-writing-briefly/
  date_modified: 2025-04-27T02:17:28Z
  content_text: I add a s/;/\n\*/g version of Paul Graham’s “Writing, Briefly” and dig up a definition of “anaphora” so you don’t have to go look it up, either.
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  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-04-27T00:38:02Z
  content_text: I read the news today, oh boy — TLS certificates are supposed to be valid for no longer than 47 days come March 15, 2029.
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  id: 65dad718-90b1-4bc8-bd71-9a48a34bf811
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/internet/nice-personal-website/
  date_modified: 2025-04-22T19:20:43Z
  content_text: I add slashpages.net to Nice Personal Website.
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  id: 89cb7e48-a38b-47b4-9b80-f28170f4fb4c
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/start/
  date_modified: 2025-04-19T23:54:30Z
  content_text: I add a link to portal.mozz.us to /start/ because, well, have you searched for “gemini proxy” lately? If I didn’t have this link in my browser history I might not ever been able to find it again.
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  id: ec0a748c-1856-4798-9689-d05f932821df
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/games/nintendo-game-prices/
  date_modified: 2025-04-18T08:15:27Z
  content_text: I look back at my logged-on-paper purchase history, spend some time with an inflation calculator, and discover that I was paying $110–$120 for SNES games in February 2025 dollars. Before taxes.
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  id: c1abc387-c0ea-4609-b33e-a6f701c2bcd3
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-04-06T11:20:53Z
  content_text: I consider whether I could write longer posts, and the short answer is “no”.
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  id: ab34ca90-83fd-4628-8528-c592b3323d57
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/roll/
  date_modified: 2025-04-06T10:59:41Z
  content_text: I add /roll/, a list of sites and capsules I read. Mostly capsules.
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  id: 90c475a3-5bc3-4f8d-a9d8-497c6abf7f5f
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/vignettes/marine-blue/
  date_modified: 2025-04-06T07:17:48Z
  content_text: I tell you about the time I bought a green-looking iPad cover with Night Shift running and when the thing came in it was actually blue.
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  id: 200f7a87-6923-4f65-aad8-0221c17c6e8d
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-04-01T02:56:29Z
  content_text: I wish you a happy LLM Training-Set Poisoning Day.
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  id: 661b3ee2-aed6-466d-aba5-c72151b8a7e5
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-04-01T01:32:51Z
  content_text: I am alerted to the existence of aspizu/astro-gemtext on GitHub and I share this finding with you.
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  id: 99f5a07a-db28-4516-bf93-57f37bd700d3
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-03-29T06:26:56Z
  content_text: I relay my impressions of Nostr.
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  id: 109221da-de85-4d39-81c9-9f67454a4b27
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-03-29T06:02:24Z
  content_text: I watch Superhero Movie, a Leslie Nielsen movie, and ponder changes in cinema.
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  id: ccf26050-6e8c-46af-a6ee-4bb60f90633e
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-03-21T06:25:30Z
  content_text: I am flattered in passing because of my choice of boring, simple capsule-build tools.
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  id: b2b239ba-5275-4153-8a8c-6bf4f5b8fc54
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/gemini/into-llms/
  date_modified: 2025-03-17T10:43:33Z
  content_text: I link to Gwern Branwen’s “You should write more online—it’s still a good time” detailing the pluses of getting your writing into LLMs.
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  id: ea2f8eea-adce-407f-9f47-b03fd4ec190d
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal-os/
  date_modified: 2025-03-17T10:07:05Z
  content_text: I introduce some desiderata for system fonts on my ideal-OS page.
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  id: 27ac5a23-aae6-4555-9116-960aeb15b0e9
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal-os/graveyard/
  date_modified: 2025-03-17T02:27:11Z
  content_text: I fix the link to the ideal-OS graveyard by turning two periods into one.
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  id: 5523571a-8a04-4f62-8326-c02c0f70c15d
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-03-14T08:37:29Z
  content_text: I write down that the meme for “250th anniversary” is “semiquincentennial” since it’s been slipping my mind repeatedly. What’s an “onk-ey deck”?
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  id: 1f3623d8-3c1f-4abb-af6a-edc482521d2d
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal-os/
  date_modified: 2025-03-14T08:33:14Z
  content_text: I link to @usgraphics on 𝕏.
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  id: 0d8296c3-b7b8-4313-83fd-80e7b3669446
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal-os/
  date_modified: 2025-03-12T11:42:46Z
  content_text: I link to Julia Evans’ blog’s category about terminal stuff on my ideal-OS page. I also add a bit about image bundles that change with the time of day.
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  id: 03448ec1-0409-40c2-85e2-778b3405b6d0
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-03-06T10:54:27Z
  content_text: Replying to a post by Sean Conner, I assert that learning jq really is that hard.
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  id: 5ed7fd50-92b8-40cf-aaa0-34d0bdeeb304
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/about/
  date_modified: 2025-03-06T10:22:21Z
  content_text: I update /about/ for early 2025.
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  id: 6798f83c-330c-467b-ae00-ad17aee3ff2b
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-03-06T10:05:32Z
  content_text: I figure I’ll clear out old feed entries…once per decade.
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  id: d01dd5f5-e268-41fe-8c66-92d4e49c0cbc
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/internet/nice-personal-website/
  date_modified: 2025-03-06T09:20:47Z
  content_text: I add James Somers’ “More people should write” to the Nice Personal Website page, even though he’s not even advocating that you write in public. He thinks you’d be better off even if you just wrote to friends more, or in a journal.
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  id: babe11b0-b4c4-4b4d-88c1-19a3e97b79b4
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/offlfirsoch-writ-small/
  date_modified: 2025-03-01T23:34:22Z
  content_text: I add “OFFLFIRSOCH writ small”, a list of things you can do for OFFLFIRSOCH if you’re not up to writing (and hopefully using) a new program in a month.
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  id: 959b1c2b-8880-4325-b30e-57a68258f2da
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-02-26T21:02:25Z
  content_text: I throw gmund.midnight.pub at ChatGPT and Sam Altman’s pet shoggoth can’t figure out what the text says.
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  id: 66075c02-51b0-48e2-980c-97fe84cdead8
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/
  date_modified: 2025-02-23T23:47:46Z
  content_text: I standardize on having multiple first-level headings since the first one is generally treated as special by many clients that are fancy enough to care and I like standardization, at least in a vacuum.
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  id: 86a7222e-8b12-414d-9abe-ada434e0de62
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-02-23T08:54:26Z
  content_text: I offer a shallow thought about DeepSeek — the whale mascot is cute.
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  id: 6ce6fe33-ed52-43bb-9f8e-7c74f12feaa8
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/internet/nice-personal-website/
  date_modified: 2025-02-23T01:23:17Z
  content_text: I add landchad.net to the Nice Personal Website link sets.
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  id: 46004e5a-d801-4340-824a-f1d25319dd9f
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-02-22T10:54:41Z
  content_text: I discover that the `heisenberg` theme for Helix has blinking comments. Blinking. Comments.
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  id: be9ff6d9-9fc5-48da-8845-97b637622aec
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/productivity-systems/
  date_modified: 2025-02-22T03:40:11Z
  content_text: I toss in a couple of links on how you can waste your time with personal wikis.
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  id: 4e7f2acf-8af2-41ec-a72e-74162b4cdf6c
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-02-21T08:22:49Z
  content_text: I look upon what pretty much needs to be done to pare back Windows 11’s annoyances to a barely-tolerable level, and despair.
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  id: 17b46805-fef5-4efe-bc4a-6ef1c2764b0a
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-02-09T21:09:34Z
  content_text: I mention a new-to-me acronym — SABLE (stash acquisition beyond life expectancy).
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  id: 7680100f-6daa-42d9-92de-a5a1dc5b2ba4
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/gemini/
  date_modified: 2025-02-04T10:06:50Z
  content_text: I spruce up my Gemini page up a bit. You know, the page that links to things I’ve written about Gemini and Geminispace and capsule architecture and whatnot.
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  id: 491e8094-9a78-4823-ac21-e70ca4a31e0a
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal-os/graveyard/
  date_modified: 2025-02-03T06:09:10Z
  content_text: 'I add a companion idea graveyard to the ideal-OS page. Its first entry: Retina-class 16-grayscale monitors. Only. With a backlight color you can change.'
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  id: 748bee8e-c945-4501-93cd-ddacab6f292d
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal-os/
  date_modified: 2025-02-03T03:35:11Z
  content_text: I float the idea of an ortholinear QGMLWB keyboard on my ideal-OS page.
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  id: 954663ed-2b96-457c-8247-d4c47714e2ed
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/gemini/rip/
  date_modified: 2025-02-03T02:07:28Z
  content_text: I publish “Rip in peace”, a list of capsules that died.
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  id: e32a21e9-7b81-4db0-9052-abf74e0f771e
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/programs/
  date_modified: 2025-02-03T01:00:47Z
  content_text: I add astroterm to the programs list. And spiff up some other entries, and remove one loser.
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  id: a3ea9dbb-ad6c-4e79-b607-5395d6968ae0
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/internet/
  date_modified: 2025-02-03T00:12:58Z
  content_text: I add a couple links to people talking about adjusting to writing on the Internet with the assumption that LLMs are ingesting what you’ve written.
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  id: 450e6259-4a0b-4d8d-80aa-e466eaa19f90
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/gemini/into-llms/
  date_modified: 2025-02-02T07:02:57Z
  content_text: I get wind of circumstantial evidence that Geminispace is being scraped, probably to be fed to LLMs because why else would one bother?
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  id: be0d38d7-79be-4b63-aa7a-218fb25a4ed7
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/internet/nice-personal-website/
  date_modified: 2025-02-02T05:51:24Z
  content_text: I break “Nice Personal Website” into “website” and “blog” sections. Each section has only two links, though.
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  id: be6d9d4e-3f95-4bf4-91c7-9ac632eeb0c6
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-01-26T10:08:34Z
  content_text: I stumble over a programming language called Koka where the most highly suggested installation option is to install a Visual Studio Code plugin.
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  id: fe30de30-ce64-46e9-9d3c-bf5bd6bd5ccc
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/
  date_modified: 2025-01-22T03:35:41Z
  content_text: I go running in 60-second spurts and up my sauna game sort of maybe.
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  id: 7ffd8580-ad2e-4f70-9f98-c20bcb39f58c
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/internet/nice-personal-website/
  date_modified: 2025-01-07T09:44:11Z
  content_text: I add “Nice personal website”, the kernel of page that kind of points you in the direction of making a nice personal website if Gemini is too restrictive for you or whatever.
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  id: 78840f3c-2411-4717-9c41-5cb7d6ab9ab4
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-12-26T03:27:52Z
  content_text: I wish you a merry Christmas.
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  id: f4c25142-f8d6-4fec-9ae0-a1b798462545
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-12-23T04:32:13Z
  content_text: I openly wonder how boring gym-run-postmortem Scrawlspace posts would be. I figure “very, even for me”.
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  id: c21b19c6-f722-4ecd-ae77-cc137fdfd3a8
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-12-23T04:24:54Z
  content_text: I openly waffle on whether to get a spiffy new e-ink terminal that I don’t need. I decide I’m not going to buy one unless my needs change.
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  id: 0538122b-dd78-43bc-9e9c-f2c0667be128
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/internet/centralization-incentives/
  date_modified: 2024-12-21T09:56:46Z
  content_text: I throw up a three-bullet-point page describing why the Internet is as centralized as it is. It’s very incomplete.
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  id: 523a83a8-fe85-4cd7-99cf-a5c744c33f5b
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-12-20T09:13:28Z
  content_text: I dig up a quote about Bill Gates where someone describes him as someone who would come to your house for dinner and say, “Thank you. I think I’ll have all the mashed potatoes.”
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  id: aba85941-fd85-4637-93b3-0c90eaff47ac
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/productivity-systems/
  date_modified: 2024-12-17T07:56:42Z
  content_text: I publish “Productivity-systems desiderata”. It feels incomplete.
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  id: c91d472b-1371-4499-bd20-0fd321b10add
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-12-17T03:10:01Z
  content_text: On my ideal-OS page, I grumble about the manpage-viewing experience and note that we’re gonna need a terminal-based document viewer like GNU info or lynx or somesuch.
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  id: 1ea3cc89-f891-4695-91dc-87d345f02b14
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal-os/
  date_modified: 2024-12-16T05:09:08Z
  content_text: On my ideal-OS page, I mention https://iroh.computer, virtual machines, chroot jails, and sandboxing. Also PowerShell’s whopping SEVEN output streams.
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  id: 3df89ded-5d4a-45cd-b51e-6bd04fb1f054
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-12-14T21:22:11Z
  content_text: I try out yesterday’s bunch of fonts in black-on-white and update my impressions.
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  id: d315a108-2580-4daf-b0ee-97b45ba468b8
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-12-14T08:31:10Z
  content_text: I try out a bunch of fonts in Typst in white-on-black.
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  id: e4cffa03-dca0-4a92-baee-903fb78d91ce
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-12-13T00:37:20Z
  content_text: I share some “you should have a website” links and opine that bi-hosted Web/Geminispace capsules limit gemtext/webpage quality.
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  id: a5ef3d5b-312e-4c81-bd29-b35188a892b7
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-12-12T08:29:15Z
  content_text: The newly-released Apple Intelligence features manage to anti-surpass my already-low expectations.
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  id: c884106d-57f4-4887-9133-e288775b5ebd
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-12-07T11:48:48Z
  content_text: I copy down The Verge’s 1–10 rating scale in case I ever need a rating scale for things.
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  id: 4617df59-3ab0-4085-997d-f5bd97e5a4e3
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-12-03T06:14:47Z
  content_text: I get a bunch of color-temperature-adjustable LED bulbs and cranking them up to 5000K apparently gives me a headache.
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  id: 8162b051-89e0-4c75-9571-b55a264128d3
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-11-18T22:35:13Z
  content_text: I tell you you can hit ⎋ to cancel Finder drags and also that you can ⌥⌘-click on Dock-pinned folders to open them in Finder.
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  id: a7a60c39-247f-4ba1-b778-cfc04882fafe
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-11-10T04:07:34Z
  content_text: I dump a saved 𝕏 post into Scrawlspace because I want to save it and mull it over every so often.
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  id: 03802c11-21ad-4a80-8e4e-2af1c9eff592
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2023/
  date_modified: 2024-11-10T03:38:15Z
  content_text: I update the Guzey post with a link to Ben Kuhn’s blogging-advice post.
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  id: c8abaf3c-e293-4b59-9630-d1f0ae063798
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-11-04T03:22:51Z
  content_text: I tell you how to preserve deleted darling phrases in Git and leave tombstones so you can find their bodies if you ever get curious years later.
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  id: c18f5dc8-9092-4fd9-9ce0-57e1315f649f
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-10-31T03:17:43Z
  content_text: I get my music adjusted to compensate for my slightly-diminished hearing and am only surprised and annoyed by the high-pitched whines I was completely missing. I then turn the adjustments off and the whine still persists.
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  id: 6a0b856b-f9d6-42d9-b1cc-1754b36b6b32
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-10-26T10:01:51Z
  content_text: I tell you to use a 10″ (not a 9″) pie tin when making a schadenfreude pie according to John Scalzi’s recipe.
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  id: a708be4e-2f25-4142-8356-426bb0086db4
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-10-20T08:42:44Z
  content_text: I decide to replace pocket-sized battery packs with a 25-pound (11-kilo) spicy kettlebell.
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  id: 5ff63c53-2a26-42b3-b53b-0386ac7a13c6
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-10-17T09:56:31Z
  content_text: I light a candle instead of using any of the much-brighter and higher-energy lights in a room and enjoy the complete lack of getting my mellow harshed.
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  id: 3269b29f-7a99-456e-b5dc-6d56e17af19a
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-10-14T03:13:27Z
  content_text: I point out that pouring a lot of time into a personal website doesn’t have a great return on investment, generally.
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  id: 91e7783c-c660-4072-82fd-add8f86cb31e
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-10-14T01:49:58Z
  content_text: I remind you that your website does not need to be any more complex than a site in 1997 was.
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  id: 51d9d33d-12d4-47d4-88e1-1d629ecc578e
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-10-13T23:57:41Z
  content_text: I point out that, pace Loris Cro, there are more than two kinds of websites, and most people end up on sites with middling levels of backend fancy, not maximal.
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  id: 5fd6c6dc-49f5-4b22-85a1-6c1e4cc1de6f
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-09-27T22:23:11Z
  content_text: I observe that, over time, chili improves but bread gets worse.
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  id: 8ec92585-e5b9-4975-8902-42575cc2134b
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-09-23T07:51:59Z
  content_text: I weigh in on SocialAI. I think it’s kind of close to something that could be useful as a sounding board, although I’m briefly tempted to point and laugh at it along with all right-thinking people.
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  id: 50e6f4d9-bb8b-4407-b26e-7641edc63311
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-09-16T01:50:38Z
  content_text: I exhume a Tumblr post describing people who are helped/harmed/unaffected by a change.
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  id: b3f715d2-cb85-4a34-b4b6-333611aec938
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-09-14T16:44:27Z
  content_text: I consider the opinion of an Internet microcelebrity of a text-editor theme, and form my own.
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  id: fc61fbf6-a8bd-473a-a897-1f0211d1fffe
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-09-08T07:53:49Z
  content_text: I notice that if pictures and video are trivially deepfaked, news outlets have less ability to establish that they are credible — other than by flattering their audience, which is just as effective as ever.
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  id: ea33b4be-4fa4-408a-8a14-249a946ad8ae
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-09-07T01:20:06Z
  content_text: I make the ROOPHLOCH post for the year. It’s hot outside.
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  id: 3d1b4624-ed20-41b7-804f-cf4a6fe62825
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-09-06T08:35:06Z
  content_text: I read a blog post that says “you should finish your side projects” and decide to delete a bunch of the ones I’ll never finish.
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  id: a13634e3-6fe5-48f3-97cd-1f4cb1bee6b0
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-09-06T07:17:05Z
  content_text: I mention the Small Web and tell you it’s a good thing.
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  id: 4924c24b-029f-4554-bf0f-2461867f2f0e
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-09-05T06:07:07Z
  content_text: I think about how I’m going to make this year’s ROOPHLOCH post as small of a letdown as possible compared to last year’s. I don’t manage to find a way so far.
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  id: 3601abbc-6d2f-4c3f-bc2b-f1a3a0680c90
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/about/
  date_modified: 2024-08-31T05:35:54Z
  content_text: I add a history section to /about/.
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  id: 79b55a53-5eda-4375-be4a-ffa8047b0103
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/
  date_modified: 2024-08-31T03:06:54Z
  content_text: I break parts of the site colophon up into /about/ and /feeds/ pages.
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  id: f670083f-b83b-4990-83f6-a0dccbdbf4e0
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-08-31T01:47:27Z
  content_text: I finally get out the long-awaited (at least on my end) wallpaper post. I think it needs rewriting and breaking up.
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  id: 19100186-31d4-4053-9995-052418cec68c
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-08-30T07:08:05Z
  content_text: I contemplate capsule image policy now that I have rsync-enabled uploads.
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  id: 0b5c3edc-e439-4813-820b-e5cf0e6c9d32
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-08-28T07:41:13Z
  content_text: I ask myself if JSON-LD won more support than microdata did. I didn’t get a conclusive answer because that would have taken research.
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  id: 68f12d06-e464-4a28-846a-7816a7fa8d7e
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-08-28T06:43:39Z
  content_text: I post ASCII art of a “VOTE SAXON” campaign poster.
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  id: fcad2605-c852-4136-8ead-4b75d68e8f3e
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-08-26T06:05:25Z
  content_text: I tell you all sorts of things that you can do to get a better feel for the metric system. Weakly insinuating that you ought to regularly swim at a 50-meter-long pool with a dive platform off to one side might be a bridge too far, though.
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  id: 53afd7df-e54a-4179-86ac-4a8021b115ac
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-08-25T08:10:39Z
  content_text: I struggle to understand how “anthropocene” is a useful tag for a bookmark about microplastics in everyone and everything.
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  id: 4cf22706-b242-433b-b249-9f44b3c7ecab
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-08-23T23:52:37Z
  content_text: I consider what the world must look like from Apple’s perspective as they apply “you must use our in-app purchase and give us 15–30%” to ever more transactions.
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  id: 4f543c0a-492f-4b07-b5cc-d1fd5e03a186
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-08-23T23:30:50Z
  content_text: I list a few things one can log to.
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  id: 5626229f-229d-4110-85b3-cf3027279bd2
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal-os/
  date_modified: 2024-08-18T20:29:44Z
  content_text: Buried in the description of my ideal OS, I float the idea of a doublewide 4.5K monitor with a resolution of 8960×2520.
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  id: 134cdc5f-6ef4-43dd-b467-3404a79f4d69
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-08-18T07:28:17Z
  content_text: I look up the color puce on Wikipedia, settling decades of unease whether my guess of what color it is was right or not. I also draw your attention to Wikipedia’s (automatic) dark-mode picker hidden behind a pair-of-glasses icon.
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  id: d55785d3-b312-48d6-a58f-fd30fd6002bc
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/games/the-snes-should-have-had-z-buttons/
  date_modified: 2024-08-13T06:58:58Z
  content_text: I unveil an unfinished case that the SNES controller should have had Z buttons for the middle fingers instead of X and Y.
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  id: 8df7eff9-f9ae-40ac-ab3a-c3263fc83aff
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/games/zelda/echoes-of-wisdom/
  date_modified: 2024-08-13T06:20:17Z
  content_text: I unveil my preparations to save Hyrule again.
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  id: 586237e3-9cce-4319-a1bb-58082c34a827
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-08-09T08:55:03Z
  content_text: I open a box containing two iA Notebooks. It’s kind of hard to tell where the packaging ends and the product begins.
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  id: d32d746e-fdf7-460e-a190-f08ee4d52862
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-07-30T06:01:21Z
  content_text: I eat Jeremy’s chocolate, on sale, in their Micro-Aggression size, in both their with-almonds (He/Him) and nutless (She/Her) variants. They’re very thin and don’t have lecithin in them, soy or otherwise.
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  id: 68284aa3-2dc8-4409-8560-7603bdae0cea
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal-os/
  date_modified: 2024-07-24T20:38:32Z
  content_text: I add a really useful link about CRDTs in my description of my ideal OS.
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  id: 8c7bb5be-3151-4ccf-9c91-f07f91395120
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/start/
  date_modified: 2024-07-22T09:45:51Z
  content_text: I remove Spacewalk from the list of places to find new capsules and pages, as it’s not being run anymore.
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  id: 70dff544-3f2a-4f47-9cd0-96a4427a3663
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/
  date_modified: 2024-07-22T09:05:22Z
  content_text: I rearrange the home page of the capsule and throw “So You Want To Lose Fat” into words/. Of course, cool URIs don’t change.
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  id: 393cb3b2-6d7c-41d9-85af-5d961b259a5d
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal-os/
  date_modified: 2024-07-20T11:26:37Z
  content_text: I consider how the modifier keys group together on my ideal OS. I still don’t know what to do with the Alt key.
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  id: 18c828ad-abd8-4d3b-976a-69cf98106e07
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-07-20T08:21:27Z
  content_text: I am told that Google doesn’t index content by default anymore, and how that means you can write on/for the Web with even greater obscurity-by-default if that’s what you want.
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  id: 97097ead-b793-4791-87d4-4360c2003b22
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-07-17T06:30:38Z
  content_text: I grumble a bit about how I don’t have a place for computer speakers anymore.
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  id: cb6f67a7-4262-44ab-b4c1-ffd76b97ddf6
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal-os/
  date_modified: 2024-07-15T22:11:48Z
  content_text: I specify that color codes can be per-color-scheme so when the user changes from light to dark, previously-output colored text can still look right.
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  id: 6f8dc558-a6d2-4b1a-9dbe-93cd0f978b1a
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-07-15T22:00:18Z
  content_text: I visit a Lamps Plus for the first time in three decades or so. It’s not as warm inside as I remember. Later, I come back and buy some LED bulbs.
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  id: 7506b162-3d4e-481f-ab84-b7678c8287ac
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal-os/
  date_modified: 2024-07-15T21:24:50Z
  content_text: I spec out a couple of monitors that I’d want for my ideal OS page on my ideal-OS page. As if I couldn’t be any more of a Mac guy than I already am.
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  id: 0986d535-4dae-4cda-bba5-ed27e20eca0e
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal-os/
  date_modified: 2024-07-05T23:26:51Z
  content_text: I expand upon what a modern (eco)system needs with respect to inter-computer sync functionality.
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  id: 18e3b241-9db8-4f41-8c11-c1967c4be71b
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal-os/
  date_modified: 2024-07-05T22:56:58Z
  content_text: I rearrange and restructure the “My ideal OS” piece. Hope you’re not allergic to having multiple one-pound-sign headers in a page.
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  id: 956953da-c750-4a63-9efa-f26164f63caa
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal-os/
  date_modified: 2024-07-05T05:39:08Z
  content_text: I conclude that a Compose key is bloat, and explain why in my description of my ideal operating system. I also declare that my ideal operating system has no bugs.
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  id: f5d56353-22a0-4321-8abb-04bfcf007611
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal-os/
  date_modified: 2024-07-04T10:35:09Z
  content_text: I figure out more of what I want the keys to do in my ideal operating system. I’m definitely not done.
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  id: 083ae4fa-7a0a-4723-81d7-cf01d2341698
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal-os/
  date_modified: 2024-07-02T09:34:02Z
  content_text: I decide there will be only one builtin text editor in my ideal operating system, and it will be basically Visual Studio Code in a TUI version. I also add a couple other things to the page, including an “unsolved problems” section at the end.
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  id: 4b8d8960-e1f5-4cb8-a4e4-05486cd28d5e
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal-os/
  date_modified: 2024-06-30T10:22:43Z
  content_text: I do a lot of wishful thinking and lay out some of what I think my ideal operating system would do and be.
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  id: 13db34ba-b569-4983-bbe4-e91a52fd466d
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-06-27T08:22:52Z
  content_text: In contrast to what everyone around me is doing, I read People instead of futzing with my phone in a waiting room.
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  id: a407d270-0045-4127-b278-24d4203ae4ea
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-06-19T08:51:57Z
  content_text: I prod ~inquiry to write in two dimensions.
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  id: 9a3705db-50bb-4631-b5ce-e5002328db71
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/atom.xml
  date_modified: 2024-06-18T02:20:59Z
  content_text: I add a level of indentation in the Atom feed to make the <entry> elements properly indented, and still save on the byte count because I also switch from four-space columns to tabs.
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  id: ebd6f5ba-a511-46c3-a823-ea8e3a035f86
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-06-16T06:30:18Z
  content_text: I bore you to tears with my recap of the keynote and Platforms State of the Union for WWDC 2024.
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  id: 52592ce6-ebee-435a-ae0a-b23fdbb6e6d2
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-05-25T07:54:38Z
  content_text: I list a number of things that probably shed microplastics. They’re things I’d miss if they were replaced with non-shedding counterparts.
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  id: 192f9ccd-da38-444c-80a3-905ba8259061
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-05-20T00:11:23Z
  content_text: I point you to Maciej Ceglowski’s long-form description of how utterly screwed up NASA is these days.
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  id: e2aebe85-ad3a-412a-9627-6a099dc97d4e
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-05-19T08:53:04Z
  content_text: I add an update to the end of “Slick”, my previous post, mentioning how the body wash stained my bleachable-white washcloths, but the charcoal-and-pomegranate smell is still fantastic.
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  id: 982058ff-e33f-4789-96db-e22bd9478c6a
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-05-16T08:46:04Z
  content_text: I try Jeremy’s body wash. It smells pleasant and gets the job done, but it’s slick and persistent, even on the tub floor where you want it to be neither of those things.
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  id: 1942a9f3-2033-469d-99f4-58524d4f8e51
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-05-13T08:48:38Z
  content_text: I calmly walk onto the “blog posts don’t need titles” train.
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  id: 09982b21-aa79-497a-9ecd-ebe39e76a3cd
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-05-13T08:20:13Z
  content_text: I point out to midnight.pub/~inquiry that copy/pasting URLs in documents is unpleasant because selecting text in a browser can get annoying fast.
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  id: e6d0c861-fc0d-41e9-a660-4f43e7b7a94f
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-05-09T08:34:37Z
  content_text: I let you know that geminispace.info is shutting down on June 1, and that TLGS and Kennedy also exist.
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  id: ac757a5e-5492-497b-aedc-81636b5bbe36
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-05-03T08:32:36Z
  content_text: I encounter fake news…in one of my journal entries.
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  id: 76239ef7-0ed9-4831-bbda-a3c99127830e
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ascending-vs-descending/
  date_modified: 2024-05-03T08:03:20Z
  content_text: I update “Ascending vs. descending” with a link to James Kerr’s number-line-based mnemonic.
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  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-05-02T09:23:08Z
  content_text: I do the math and figure that switching from Atom to JSON Feed is some work for not a whole lot of data-transfer savings.
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  id: 99e02610-5e0c-4e02-a4c2-49af5dd3c89b
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-05-02T05:21:04Z
  content_text: I am reminded of how CPU-intensive animated GIFs were.
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  id: 71637c4e-12ed-49d9-8482-5b58709a6faa
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-05-02T04:49:23Z
  content_text: I attempt to write a Gemini client in Zig and get stuck trying to set up a TLS connection.
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  id: 5cb7ebc9-dbfe-4250-a72d-37f421f631c9
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-04-30T04:21:55Z
  content_text: I notice that a guy wrote 70 pages of notes on his way to making TypeScript better.
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  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-04-29T04:13:36Z
  content_text: I check out Michael Nordmeyer’s site, and his Atom feed is reasonably efficient.
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  id: 12a3c15b-88c1-4c6c-843c-64a236fa766c
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-04-29T02:43:51Z
  content_text: I publicly notice that software dev has gotten more pleasant now that formatters and LSPs are a thing, even though software has gotten all sorts of weird in the past 20 years. I also nudge Lisp people who’ve been enjoying features like these in Emacs for decades to bring these features to not-Emacs users if any of them want to do loads of work on outreach.
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  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-04-26T01:44:48Z
  content_text: I write a Gemini client in Deno (it acts like curl).
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  id: 6a33e484-778a-45c4-9359-669f46f546c4
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/atom.xml
  date_modified: 2024-04-25T10:16:38Z
  content_text: I wedge an XML declaration (<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>) into the top of the capsule Atom feed and now Lagrange turns it into a Gemini feed for easy browsing.
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  id: 0f168419-880a-4c90-b6a2-fc51eeb74cc2
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-04-25T04:40:53Z
  content_text: I consider whether personal computers are “fundamentally liberatory”, conclude that they are if you compute like it’s 1985, and punt the “what about mainframes?” question to another time.
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  id: 0719f848-1c1d-45c4-a022-ef447263263a
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-04-23T07:49:10Z
  content_text: I notice that the smol.earth philosophy is, to within a first approximation, Uncle Ted’s.
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  id: 4438551c-1fcd-43b5-a358-f2dd1ec36823
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-04-19T08:20:36Z
  content_text: I try out the Compose key on Debian and discover its limitations.
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  id: 6f388c16-c6bc-473a-ac1d-aa40e7838aa6
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-04-16T04:17:04Z
  content_text: I tell you that Windows NT 4.0’s startup sound was the coolest thing ever and direct you to enough background to understand how cool it was.
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  id: 26bdd039-1fb8-45e0-a9b4-b534cc8aa2d9
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-04-14T09:55:51Z
  content_text: I install Debian on a computer of mine…and, oddly enough, Homebrew. On the Debian machine, mind.
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  id: 610c39b0-0f94-4d99-8836-6fa2b71df667
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-04-05T08:02:47Z
  content_text: I am delighted to discover that the Visual Studio Code team now gives me a way to turn “index.gmi” on tabs to something useful, like “2024/”.
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  id: 8fd437a0-29cd-4a00-810a-b830c0b65e99
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/programs/
  date_modified: 2024-04-04T18:23:52Z
  content_text: I add monolith(1) to my list of computer programs.
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  id: 1c5b2ebc-86f8-41e5-bb6c-bd119701d4a2
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-03-10T23:03:16Z
  content_text: I am reminded of orthogonal persistence, and register my disquiet.
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  id: fec20ba6-9e53-48dd-8031-a4fa68948c68
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-03-04T05:57:48Z
  content_text: I point you to a big pile of mostly-offline programs other people have written in lieu of a proper OFFLFIRSOCH announcement.
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  id: 50502e5f-5ec5-4c67-b659-15f790c2141f
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-02-26T05:27:36Z
  content_text: I am getting to the point where website improvements sound like chores to me.
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  id: a5645b94-8c3f-4685-9165-6f3d5542c04e
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-02-03T04:40:00Z
  content_text: I am relieved that the EU didn’t manage to completely destroy the one thing that’s preventing Google’s Chrome from being the only way to access most of the Web.
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  id: e0d5f07b-4965-4af9-af2e-345aca2c044c
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-01-22T07:11:48Z
  content_text: I notice the phrase “Let _____ cook” used in a very different context than when I first heard it. Also, I add an entirely separate post beforehand to get you up to speed on the context where I heard the phrase first.
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  id: 431ce3f6-ae25-4e07-8208-4dc1dd7908fc
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/
  date_modified: 2024-01-17T06:29:13Z
  content_text: I read Niklaus Wirth’s “A Plea for Lean Software” and have trouble accounting for his fame given what he thinks of as mere nice-to-haves in software in 1995.
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  id: e0c61122-2bdb-4d73-ba7a-cac24123e06e
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/gemini/year-in-review/
  date_modified: 2024-01-01T04:46:57Z
  content_text: I mention nnethercote/counts at the end of my year-in-review page but do nothing with it.
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  id: 510e1b14-2aab-43d4-8e3c-c41c6defc387
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/gemini/year-in-review/
  date_modified: 2023-12-26T11:33:19Z
  content_text: I do one of those trendy year-in-review things using data from my JSON Feed using jq.
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  id: b8bb40b1-39d2-4e33-bd85-1fa65361cd57
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/gemini/could-use-a-logo/
  date_modified: 2023-12-26T11:20:20Z
  content_text: I claim that Gemini could use a logo that looks OK as ASCII art.
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  id: f664ce5b-0be7-4dd1-a6b0-d7ec81c3e895
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2023/
  date_modified: 2023-12-25T14:03:54Z
  content_text: I wish you a merry Christmas.
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  id: c4c23281-c9bf-47f9-9b6c-a77389568f89
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2023/
  date_modified: 2023-12-17T04:53:48Z
  content_text: I notice my ticker. It’s ticking rather fast.
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  id: ccb8c799-94bf-48b5-9d68-3938f87ee99f
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2023/
  date_modified: 2023-12-11T05:02:06Z
  content_text: I exhume/present a thought technology for memorizing where things are relative to their neighbors.
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  id: 468d4070-3fc1-487a-bb38-a8ab4a7e610b
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2023/
  date_modified: 2023-12-08T07:16:01Z
  content_text: I have slime in my eyes overnight. It’s super effective. A second application of slime doesn’t go all that well, though.
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  id: 6bc1e032-3a63-4665-8639-b2a268fae743
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2023/
  date_modified: 2023-12-07T09:32:37Z
  content_text: I am told by my doctor that my eyeballs are insufficiently slimy.
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  id: af5575a9-5768-4c9b-b335-8d3d4650f537
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2023/
  date_modified: 2023-12-06T07:30:49Z
  content_text: I look upon others’ works and despair at the bad typography.
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  id: 42247fce-16c8-4d5e-a0c9-1e01836762fc
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2023/
  date_modified: 2023-11-27T07:37:21Z
  content_text: I suggest that next-functions have their own role, even if they don’t show up much in novices’ programming projects.
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  id: 9c28729f-b36c-4492-83f9-60fded1f555a
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/reviews/books/the-programmers-brain/
  date_modified: 2023-11-27T07:04:58Z
  content_text: I review Felienne Hermans’ _The Programmer’s Brain_.
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  id: 168a26da-31aa-4e8c-9c6e-7c8e814df2e7
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2023/
  date_modified: 2023-11-26T23:15:37Z
  content_text: I read four issues of Condé Nast Traveler. It’s not as interesting this time around.
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  id: 7560ec44-f85d-4fd3-b89d-9b577f6f85e4
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2023/
  date_modified: 2023-11-25T00:47:45Z
  content_text: I think of a way to highlight my own thoughts in text that is mostly a summary of others’ thoughts.
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  id: 89c35073-1a7b-4f0e-9f26-a4637236eb79
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2023/
  date_modified: 2023-10-31T07:51:39Z
  content_text: I note that Apple’s “Scary Fast” event was aptly named since it lasted only a half hour.
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  id: 7d855380-17e2-4221-98e4-874a337a50c0
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2023/
  date_modified: 2023-10-19T06:55:48Z
  content_text: I claim that if Geminispace ever counts as a community all by itself, it will be a shrunken, highly-intraconnected black hole where previously an entire solar system existed.
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  id: 82b07dc8-f4d1-4c99-81c8-f5aa98fb4201
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2023/
  date_modified: 2023-10-18T08:08:34Z
  content_text: I write about comically overstretched definitions of “community”.
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  id: 6b73503a-245d-4715-9d48-3ce488d5b6b3
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2023/
  date_modified: 2023-10-17T23:10:16Z
  content_text: I play with Working Copy’s StandBy-capable widget on my phone. It’s, uh, definitely a feature that exists.
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  id: a650504c-da79-4718-bafe-b4068099cd47
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2023/
  date_modified: 2023-10-17T07:02:18Z
  content_text: I circle back to a number of constants deliberately written in decimal and see what kind of colors they can be interpreted as. Most are pretty, one looks like poop, and one is too transparent to really be considered a color.
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  id: 1eaee30e-eae8-45e0-b226-786f65308ebe
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2023/
  date_modified: 2023-10-16T08:40:35Z
  content_text: I think of a way to upload images to my capsule without rsync — have a separate folder full of images, and only upload the assets folder on the rare occasion something’s changed in it.
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  id: fcccba76-063b-4058-a09c-fe6d46fc7e6c
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2023/
  date_modified: 2023-10-15T04:23:17Z
  content_text: I actually write a Scrawlspace post to help me think, and then I go do the thing I thunk up in the way I thunk it up. It’s all about how to Gemini a little bit better.
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  id: c21ed04d-1b2b-4f50-bf19-bdb4b3be66c8
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/gemini/put-your-capsules-url-in-your-gemtext-pages/
  date_modified: 2023-10-15T04:19:25Z
  content_text: I exhort you to put some kind of way to find your capsule again when a visitor downloads a page from your capsule and forgets what capsule it came from, and suggest an absolute link to your home page.
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  id: 9c50532e-153d-4ffd-9dee-c7cd30366dea
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/gemini/save-gemini-articles/
  date_modified: 2023-10-15T03:34:29Z
  content_text: I exhort you to save interesting Gemini pages and not just bookmark them, since Gemini pages seem more likely to stop being hosted than Web pages.
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  id: 63cb1e5e-93c9-4158-aabc-35f6ca11ecdd
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2023/
  date_modified: 2023-10-13T01:43:24Z
  content_text: I update the most recent post with how tech can be an infinite fountain of things to talk about — and oftentimes not in a good way.
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  id: 91b62324-1c84-4b94-8880-70a1133963d8
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2023/
  date_modified: 2023-10-12T08:16:52Z
  content_text: I mull over new arguments against having a website (or moral equivalent).
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  id: f0a8b950-181a-4833-aa46-0a641d88de6a
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2023/
  date_modified: 2023-10-10T10:47:31Z
  content_text: I make Scrawlspace a little more permanent, and explain how. I don’t really explain why.
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  id: 5033e143-7ee0-452d-a60c-23f4b5a1629b
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2023-10-10T05:27:30Z
  content_text: I draw a parallel between roulette wheels and spanking.
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  id: a7602331-7049-44f3-a18e-e6e78aad968e
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2023-10-02T07:14:36Z
  content_text: I tell you to save Gemini pages that you like because there’s a higher-than-on-the-web chance they’ll disappear.
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  id: 216528d4-84d3-44b9-a79b-f8ebc3664e53
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2023-09-27T19:12:25Z
  content_text: I have my suspicions that iPhones’ prices have been dropping in real terms confirmed.
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  id: 4fec44e9-d764-4f0e-9c3d-0d2171763b58
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2023-09-25T03:48:39Z
  content_text: I discover that Theodolite for iOS won’t pause audio if it doesn’t have microphone access.
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  id: ae0f960d-131e-4aee-bfbe-a18c98da6519
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2023-09-25T03:05:36Z
  content_text: I make my capsule’s pages link back to my capsule’s homepage, and explain it’s for people who save pages and then later wonder where in Geminispace the pages came from.
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  id: 06e2313a-422f-42ac-aa10-0a34dbb211cd
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/start/
  date_modified: 2023-09-25T02:15:17Z
  content_text: I add /start/, a list of links to things that link to other things. You can use it too, if you like.
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  id: 1c07c948-d755-4e9c-924d-d41d3658e490
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2023-09-18T08:16:15Z
  content_text: Prompted by an open question from Björn “ew0k” Wärmedal, I discuss why I use Terminal.app, iTerm 2, and Alacritty.
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  id: 73b4ad6c-fa00-4965-886a-c354aa93e1f6
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2023-09-18T07:09:16Z
  content_text: I use yt-dlp to download an Apple Event video…and choose an audio track other than the one with audio descriptions in it.
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  id: 9e38ef0b-9e62-47a9-a75e-eb6e01f57e3c
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2023-09-18T06:23:33Z
  content_text: I talk about Solderpunk’s new compendium-curator file format, which he plans to use to crowdsource article links with tags.
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  id: a8cfc9d3-ed39-49ce-8311-d12faeed69a4
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2023-09-13T00:25:04Z
  content_text: I watch the Apple Event titled “Wonderlust” and ponder whether I should bother upgrading anything of mine or just wait for next year’s models.
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  id: ddb1586b-112f-4622-a8a7-419d8d460722
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2023-09-12T07:48:17Z
  content_text: I say nice things about low-junk parts of the Internet that come to you over port 443 instead of 1965 or 70.
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  id: 734933cf-8e21-487b-af17-7d0e779c4705
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2023-09-12T06:24:30Z
  content_text: I talk about Solderpunk’s attempt to surface Anything But Tech content in Geminispace. There sure is a lot of tech content mixed in with non-tech content to varying degrees.
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  id: 04b32903-d782-4e77-bb8d-4f8392fa5c73
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/
  date_modified: 2023-09-12T05:39:07Z
  content_text: I link to words/ from the homepage.
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  id: 6514a73f-4280-402d-b119-388888f40d40
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2023-09-12T04:57:12Z
  content_text: I watch Kakegurui and Kakegurui ×× on Netflix. I sum it up as “panty shots and cheat detection”.
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  id: 2d8dd08c-0b40-4cb6-a2cf-f3a5231b6b5c
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2023-09-11T03:21:34Z
  content_text: I ponder the upsides and downsides of what Apple’ll probably announce on Tuesday. Oh, and I also mention that my previous Scrawlspace post is my ROOPHLOCH 2023 entry.
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  id: 0fbd19a4-bac1-4b92-bcf6-2855d5acc6bc
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/games/zelda/tears-of-the-kingdom/
  date_modified: 2023-09-03T20:27:11Z
  content_text: On the final and 64th day of saving Hyrule again, I give a series of increasingly-distressing headaches.
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  id: be8fa300-5131-4ca7-a2fc-b59277b94816
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/games/zelda/tears-of-the-kingdom/
  date_modified: 2023-09-03T08:04:02Z
  content_text: On day 63 of saving Hyrule again, I get some tail and I get a couple big hugs.
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  id: d1b8cb56-f4d5-4096-9859-bb51c7e5ddd7
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2023-09-03T01:17:07Z
  content_text: I ponder how upload and capsule-management methods subtly shape what gets put in Geminispace.
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  id: 80e59dc1-2534-49a7-8978-67a1c2b205c1
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/games/zelda/tears-of-the-kingdom/
  date_modified: 2023-08-30T08:01:40Z
  content_text: After day 62 of saving Hyrule again, I notice that I only have the Frostbite Shirt, and that I should probably get the rest of the set.
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  id: 7c47386b-5b67-45b0-ae2a-d01a1cdee3f2
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/games/zelda/tears-of-the-kingdom/
  date_modified: 2023-08-28T05:25:40Z
  content_text: 'On day 61 of saving Hyrule again, I do basically the same thing as the day prior: work up the guts to get a big ol’ hug.'
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  id: 1c688541-9927-476b-ade4-08faa70dddb5
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/games/zelda/tears-of-the-kingdom/
  date_modified: 2023-08-26T07:29:21Z
  content_text: On day 60 of saving Hyrule again, I work up the guts to get a big ol’ hug.
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  date_modified: 2023-08-25T09:16:41Z
  content_text: On day 59 of saving Hyrule again, I spend my 249th hour backfarming random materials.
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  date_modified: 2023-08-24T10:32:25Z
  content_text: On day 58 of saving Hyrule again, I get my first one-piece outfit. A lengthy discussion follows.
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  date_modified: 2023-08-22T07:00:52Z
  content_text: On day 57 of saving Hyrule again, I pick up a few items and not even mention them in the day’s log.
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  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2023-08-21T09:56:50Z
  content_text: I notice that the help pages I’ve been peeking at while saving Hyrule seem optimized a little bit for search engines.
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  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/games/zelda/tears-of-the-kingdom/
  date_modified: 2023-08-21T01:57:41Z
  content_text: On days 52–56 of saving Hyrule again, I putter around Hyrule and clean things up.
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  date_modified: 2023-08-14T07:11:40Z
  content_text: On day 51 of saving Hyrule again, I ponder my life choices while I climb a mountain. The Star Trek V dialog, however tangentially relelvant, doesn’t cross my mind.
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  date_modified: 2023-08-13T08:23:25Z
  content_text: On day 50 of saving Hyrule again, I spatter the bourgeoisie and, much later, get a shirt I don’t want.
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  date_modified: 2023-08-12T11:10:16Z
  content_text: On day 49 of saving Hyrule again, I go past the 200-hour mark, which means I’m averaging about four hours and 15 minutes of playtime per day that I’m at it.
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  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/games/zelda/tears-of-the-kingdom/
  date_modified: 2023-08-09T09:56:24Z
  content_text: On a day where I don’t lift a finger to save Hyrule again, I talk about my house and discover that two ASCII-art diagrams are worth roughly 418 words.
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  date_modified: 2023-08-09T04:05:29Z
  content_text: On day 48 of saving Hyrule again, I do a little bit of hauling.
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  date_modified: 2023-08-08T21:38:23Z
  content_text: On day 47 of saving Hyrule again, I pick up an item I was spoiled about previously.
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  date_modified: 2023-08-08T21:23:22Z
  content_text: I add Francisco Jiménez Cabrera’s killport(1) utility to the list of things I’ve installed with Homebrew. I also make minor edits to a few other preexisting items.
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  date_modified: 2023-08-04T07:59:04Z
  content_text: On day 46 of saving Hyrule again, I farm something that’s become rare over the course of 20 minutes and pad out the rest of the half hour by checking up on stuff.
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  date_modified: 2023-08-01T00:57:16Z
  content_text: On day 45 of saving Hyrule again, I accomplish minor things I didn’t set out to accomplish while puttering around southern Hebra.
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  date_modified: 2023-07-30T09:58:54Z
  content_text: On days 43 and 44 of saving Hyrule again, I do a lot on day 43 and very little on day 44.
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  date_modified: 2023-07-28T05:15:57Z
  content_text: On day 42 of saving Hyrule again, I am briefly baited into thinking that I showed up to the final boss fight a little too early.
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  date_modified: 2023-07-27T04:04:29Z
  content_text: On day 41 of saving Hyrule again, I actually do some main-questline work, goro.
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  date_modified: 2023-07-24T03:35:50Z
  content_text: On day 40 of saving Hyrule again, I go shopping for clothes for men.
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  date_modified: 2023-07-23T21:42:22Z
  content_text: Partially inspired by then-current events, I watched The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine. I only got around to writing about it two weeks after viewing the movie.
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  date_modified: 2023-07-23T08:54:13Z
  content_text: On day 39 of saving Hyrule again, I watch a cutscene and then mash the rewind button right afterwards.
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  date_modified: 2023-07-22T09:46:45Z
  content_text: On day 38 of saving Hyrule again, I see a guy meditate.
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  date_modified: 2023-07-21T04:43:46Z
  content_text: On day 37 of saving Hyrule again, I get around to passing out free mushrooms.
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  date_modified: 2023-07-19T06:31:05Z
  content_text: On day 36 of saving Hyrule again, I finish up a maze and finish up a lot of shrines, mostly off-camera, so to speak.
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  date_modified: 2023-07-18T09:49:46Z
  content_text: On days 34 and 35 of saving Hyrule again, I finally get to the point where I’m not waiting for the next blood moon to respawn enemies and fish.
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  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/games/zelda/tears-of-the-kingdom/
  date_modified: 2023-07-16T10:06:24Z
  content_text: On day 33 of saving Hyrule again, I do more aimless fiddlefarting around in search of clothing upgrades. Results are disappointing.
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  date_modified: 2023-07-15T08:13:39Z
  content_text: On days 31 and 32 of saving Hyrule again, I do my normal fiddlefarting around. Then I get someplace through a method that wasn’t explicitly approved. Much later, I am presented with the opportunity to jump.
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  date_modified: 2023-07-13T05:35:26Z
  content_text: On days 28, 29, and 30 of saving Hyrule again, I finish up a large pile of shrines and do some more exploration.
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  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/games/zelda/tears-of-the-kingdom/
  date_modified: 2023-07-08T01:13:29Z
  content_text: On day 27 of saving Hyrule again, I do minor farming for outfit upgrades, and am disappointed by the results.
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  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/games/zelda/tears-of-the-kingdom/
  date_modified: 2023-07-06T07:29:57Z
  content_text: On days 23 through 26 of saving Hyrule again, I get up to 100 hours of saving Hyrule. It goes a lot faster for the readers than it does for me, since my willingness to write about things that happen drops off precipitously after the second consecutive hour of adventuring.
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  date_modified: 2023-07-01T07:27:21Z
  content_text: On days 20, 21, and 22 of saving Hyrule again, I find the pants I’ve been desperately searching for and spend a good bit of time actually completing some of the shrines I’ve only had talk to the hand.
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  date_modified: 2023-06-28T17:20:25Z
  content_text: On day 19 of saving Hyrule again, I go searching for a pair of pants for an outfit I have.
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  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/games/zelda/tears-of-the-kingdom/
  date_modified: 2023-06-27T06:25:19Z
  content_text: On day 18 of saving Hyrule again, I set out to grind shrines for 45 minutes. Only it turns out that I complete only one shrine.
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  date_modified: 2023-06-25T12:29:14Z
  content_text: On day 17 of saving Hyrule again, I get to the top of a stable at the last second.
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  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/games/zelda/tears-of-the-kingdom/
  date_modified: 2023-06-24T07:52:15Z
  content_text: On day 16 of saving Hyrule again, I get a piece of my old outfit back.
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  id: 63001b75-a3c0-4ac5-96a8-64cd7b3cda35
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2023-06-23T08:58:45Z
  content_text: I note publicly that I’ve been publishing in Geminispace since September of 2020.
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  id: 6c9bd741-a48a-4cc9-b22f-d91dc7088862
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/games/zelda/tears-of-the-kingdom/
  date_modified: 2023-06-18T15:29:26Z
  content_text: On days 14 and 15 of saving Hyrule again, I keep playing way too late and my writing trails off into witless spotty notetaking.
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  date_modified: 2023-06-17T10:25:37Z
  content_text: On day 14 of saving Hyrule again, I go back to an old haunt again and finish up.
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  date_modified: 2023-06-17T00:47:27Z
  content_text: On day 13 of saving Hyrule again, I start off by backfarming previously-visited shrines and end next to a couple of research-minded Hylians.
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  date_modified: 2023-06-15T06:38:17Z
  content_text: On day 12 of saving Hyrule again, I backfarm and finish up a couple shrines. Also, I start a shopping list that you can follow along with.
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  date_modified: 2023-06-13T07:17:23Z
  content_text: 'I yammer on for a while about what I thought about WWDC ’23. Teal deer: Lot of good updates coming later this year, even though the Apple Vision Pro seems merely neat.'
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  date_modified: 2023-06-11T08:13:52Z
  content_text: On day ten of saving Hyrule again, I go where everyone knows my name, and they’re all glad I came.
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  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/games/zelda/tears-of-the-kingdom/
  date_modified: 2023-06-10T22:14:14Z
  content_text: On day nine of saving Hyrule again, I kind of just horse around.
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  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/games/zelda/tears-of-the-kingdom/
  date_modified: 2023-06-10T03:54:49Z
  content_text: On day eight of saving Hyrule again, I get an archaic car. It doesn’t seem to impress anybody.
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  date_modified: 2023-06-09T07:42:46Z
  content_text: On day seven of saving Hyrule again, I finally get that horse I wanted.
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  id: 83e80d84-81fe-49f0-9fbf-cac58e772127
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  date_modified: 2023-06-07T05:10:14Z
  content_text: On day six of saving Hyrule again, I go off to get a horse and then get distracted.
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  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/games/zelda/tears-of-the-kingdom/
  date_modified: 2023-05-25T07:39:05Z
  content_text: I have five days of Tears of the Kingdom under my belt, and on a day I don’t play it, I consider my options for getting a horse.
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  id: 3623ef44-8ee9-45f3-8010-7d3d41dc1006
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/games/zelda/tears-of-the-kingdom/
  date_modified: 2023-05-17T09:25:00Z
  content_text: 'I play The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. No, not all of it, only two days’ worth. The entire page is very much a work in progress.'
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  date_modified: 2023-05-14T04:41:21Z
  content_text: I try a Jeremy’s razor and find that it’s markedly inferior to my Harry’s razor.
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  id: 2599907c-24a6-4827-8c0f-3a1dda24ab31
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2023-05-12T11:10:52Z
  content_text: 'I listen to the The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 5-disc soundtrack. It hits different than listening to the music in the actual game.'
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  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ascending-vs-descending/
  date_modified: 2023-05-09T20:59:31Z
  content_text: I add “Ascending vs. Descending”, a way to remember how to sort things ascending vs. descending.
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  id: 9d447ba6-0d9f-4172-878e-af71aeb9fbce
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2023-04-24T11:01:48Z
  content_text: I save the galaxy from space pirates again but more or less immediately start thinking about Hyrule.
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  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/programs/
  date_modified: 2023-04-08T19:19:19Z
  content_text: I reconcile the lists of installed programs on both my desktop and laptop. I also weed out a few programs that are on one computer but not the other, and aren’t all that useful anyway.
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  id: 751b80b4-8f98-451d-bb9f-f7a5ea8855f6
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/programs/
  date_modified: 2023-04-08T02:18:27Z
  content_text: I finish listing the program that I get through Homebrew…for now.
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  id: f7a8740b-6fc2-44c9-bfd0-1b29e17b90dc
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/programs/
  date_modified: 2023-04-07T07:59:06Z
  content_text: I begin to list the programs that I get through Homebrew.
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  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/
  date_modified: 2023-04-03T03:12:08Z
  content_text: I restore the previous design of both the homepage and Scrawlspace.
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  id: 9acf40db-e73a-4b49-991e-5560ee563ab1
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  date_modified: 2023-04-01T04:57:54Z
  content_text: I refresh the design of both the homepage and Scrawlspace for the beginning of the new month.
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  date_modified: 2023-03-15T06:44:39Z
  content_text: I scroll through my phone’s list of spoken languages that I can stick on my medical ID.
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  date_modified: 2023-03-07T04:19:33Z
  content_text: I stick my AirPods in my ears and squeeze one to start playback. I totally believed what happened next, but I didn’t have a good idea what would play from what device beforehand.
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  id: 34f38aa3-ad15-4929-b474-07169e7583a7
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  date_modified: 2023-02-25T12:51:33Z
  content_text: I put the only thing that would be amusing about a Metroid Prime Remastered play-through in /scrawlspace/, and save you the time you would have taken reading the entire thing.
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  date_modified: 2023-02-03T06:32:13Z
  content_text: I have a thought.
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  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2023-01-26T09:03:43Z
  content_text: I try to update a file on my main computer with either fancy post-Vim text editor.
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  id: 920510a7-b984-429e-bad8-a3d66fbd63d4
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2023-01-23T06:23:04Z
  content_text: I think that, pace Solderpunk, rounding off bicycle-for-the-mind uses of computers are more than just an easily-discarded rounding error.
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  id: 65f59736-0ab1-4c3e-b2b7-d7ad8d360a3a
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2023-01-14T07:48:05Z
  content_text: I read three Condé Nast Traveler issues.
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  id: 082210be-b61e-47fb-9d5a-1af0f633dd7a
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2022-12-27T04:57:30Z
  content_text: I install Debian on an old MacBook Pro and kick the tires.
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  id: 88d0234e-d184-4904-8a5d-20b387a1b26c
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2022-12-04T05:02:43Z
  content_text: I bore you to tears on how I pressed the wrong buttons — repeatedly — while walking up and down the side of a mountain.
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  id: e364102c-742c-46d3-bacc-3dafe712405a
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2022-11-25T06:02:37Z
  content_text: I recognize a now-famous name in somebody else’s texts.
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  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2022-11-16T08:04:21Z
  content_text: I talk about a recent purchase I made. You might be able to guess what it is. Most of what I have to say are mild gripes.
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  id: c7bc2f8c-c125-476c-95ed-6b43230a0cf1
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2022-11-08T06:19:34Z
  content_text: I discover typos(1), a Rust program designed to catch typos in source code.
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  id: 4881aa4d-0bd2-4677-a06b-a4ec700be4d8
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2022-10-23T06:06:30Z
  content_text: I suggest showing GMT on timepieces you almost never look at to determine what time it is.
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  id: 7025c2be-4a19-47dd-b5f0-e42370b519d4
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2022-10-13T03:29:57Z
  content_text: I remind my readership that you — yes, you — were Time’s Person of the Year 15 years and change ago, provided you were alive then.
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  id: 4f81e4a4-9917-4cf5-b034-9874b5e37d15
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2022-10-04T05:37:24Z
  content_text: I talk about clickbaity titles and how I have to make sure I don’t accidentally sleepwalk into writing Buzzfeed-style article titles/summaries.
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  id: bc0d19d9-3f56-41b4-aadd-a2489a18debf
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2022-10-03T04:15:13Z
  content_text: I scare myself into not liking TypeScript quite so much.
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  id: ccf0ce52-f0df-429e-8697-ac11c9973095
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2022-09-29T04:56:25Z
  content_text: I try the Helix text editor. Briefly.
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  id: e5dfc70a-7b2d-4027-aeb1-a96bb85c0605
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2022-09-05T11:31:13Z
  content_text: I point out that sneakernets are darn useful regardless of what society they’re in, mainly because the bandwidth of a car full of hard drives driving on the highway doesn’t vary based on politics.
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  id: 7af2e295-aa4e-456c-ae1d-7037fbb9e10c
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2022-09-02T08:05:07Z
  content_text: I see someone else’s bumper sticker and come to conclusions very different from the ones it likely intended to reinforce.
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  id: 0f552b64-7579-4878-b6a0-b8f71369d52e
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/snippets/
  date_modified: 2022-08-22T03:39:12Z
  content_text: I show you the TextExpander snippets I use to generate dates without looking at a calendar.
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  id: 82eca3d5-6ab9-42f6-b388-307641d7df98
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2022-08-08T08:22:09Z
  content_text: I drop the tilde.
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  id: 06db0192-979f-4c1f-bf9b-66e04c51afb1
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2022-07-10T19:05:05Z
  content_text: I realize that “Christmas” and “Go code” are both trochees.
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  id: e2516984-e376-4e86-aa58-454ec3509603
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2022-07-04T21:12:19Z
  content_text: I let my audience know one of the nice properties of ghee — that it doesn’t explode when you microwave it.
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  id: 1da43f9a-b5e6-4b98-8cc9-0b478b7701be
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2022-06-26T08:47:18Z
  content_text: I let it be known that I’ve been waffling back and forth on whether I should add a /now/ page to my capsule.
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  id: 9d1dedad-f538-4bdb-aced-71988e2ed2cd
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/ascii-art/iphone/
  date_modified: 2022-06-24T06:32:06Z
  content_text: I construct the top section of an ASCII-art iPhone. Evidently doing so leaves a lot of room for artistic license.
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  id: ab337f10-98be-436c-b9f5-41558448509a
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/sywtlf/obesogens-out/
  date_modified: 2022-06-23T07:17:17Z
  content_text: I add a page on how donating blood might help you lose weight. No, in addition to the weight of the blood.
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  id: 2edfc585-8153-4402-bedc-254ccea0a0c2
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2022-06-15T05:39:17Z
  content_text: I bore my readership by recapping some of what was announced at WWDC ’22.
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  id: 6aa8d1ec-0096-41d2-b28e-cb6658dd9e83
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2022-06-05T05:37:57Z
  content_text: I mention the couple things I want for WWDC ’22.
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  id: a6c84ce5-e836-47e6-bcfd-3e25482321c6
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2022-05-18T09:53:47Z
  content_text: I tell people to get more deep and meaningful conversations, and give questionable advice on how to do so.
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  id: 72917e18-3c96-4b00-9f40-a130a29ba88c
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2022-05-10T09:22:10Z
  content_text: I try Visual Studio Code’s new file-nesting feature. It doesn’t do what I want it to do, or, for that matter, what it says it does.
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  id: f2d63a2b-ae70-44c9-a7fb-561bcde9c027
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2022-05-03T08:43:06Z
  content_text: I post “With great brevity comes great responsibility.”.
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  id: d717339b-bbe9-4c14-93e4-7b40fcd7261e
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2022-04-30T09:31:39Z
  content_text: I think about the types I'll need for a browser-based RPG.
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  id: d693d386-6493-442c-8d03-b0f966114823
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2022-04-26T02:41:08Z
  content_text: I ponder how many calories are in a pint of cream.
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  id: 18bc82e1-e503-494d-af52-eccd2fb7e1be
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2022-04-17T03:02:49Z
  content_text: I consider what happened 10,000 years ago, both in real life and in fiction.
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  id: e278b050-75dc-4074-80d5-4dc78aa30c05
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2022-04-15T19:45:18Z
  content_text: I consider stopped, and otherwise malfunctioning, clocks.
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  id: 42fb1942-762b-45c6-be3d-523abb3fbbb3
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2022-04-11T22:05:50Z
  content_text: I consider watch-generated notifications.
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  id: ccb35b39-a349-442a-ae6c-4ed2e34ba03f
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2022-04-04T20:44:15Z
  content_text: Palladium Magazine mentions Gemini in passing.
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  id: f7cb59d8-92d6-4e71-89d1-c4abe9696a43
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2022-03-23T06:00:48Z
  content_text: I cook chicken.
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  id: b3146611-2866-4f44-9ff0-4d83fd693b66
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2022-03-09T05:29:32Z
  content_text: I mull over Apple’s latest product announcements. There were more than a few pleasant surprises.
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  id: b53708f7-d76f-4d4d-a539-342fce055688
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2022-03-08T05:58:19Z
  content_text: I figure that nothing I want gets released at the Apple event tomorrow.
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  id: a8235f0f-fee5-4fd9-9962-bbdd21c69528
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2022-03-01T09:17:27Z
  content_text: Someone might write a thing in response to something I wrote, and I might not ever know about it. Such is the way of the Internet.
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  id: 63c539e3-572e-4bf1-b2f4-8f24a1e4c29b
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2022-03-01T08:58:15Z
  content_text: 'Not an entry, but: I ditch the explanation of the end-of-year changeover. The new year was several posts back at this point.'
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  id: dcaef68f-cb7f-418a-8c40-6c43348ead86
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2022-03-01T08:32:57Z
  content_text: Have you considered how branded your capsule’s pages are?
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  id: 0557268d-7492-4477-a86c-40f600914397
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2022-02-08T07:58:08Z
  content_text: I wear an Apple Watch, not totally enthusiastically, and it nudges me to exercise more.
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  id: aaf0e5e9-4198-4128-aacc-ef5f50304ff1
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2022-01-21T05:46:49Z
  content_text: I do a Ring Fit Adventure session and my new Apple Watch says I burn over 2.5 times as many calories as RFA says I burn.
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  id: 3b5bcb09-dbc5-4cdb-a438-11ad62df76a1
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2022-01-15T07:38:17Z
  content_text: My favorite podcast app drops its custom font and I am surprised by how it’s not all bad.
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  id: c86fc013-eda7-42f1-9549-dcb4f40ac328
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2021/
  date_modified: 2022-01-02T01:04:30Z
  content_text: I shoved all my published-in-2021 entries off onto their own page. Happy new year.
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  id: dd3467fa-75d0-42dd-ac08-1143d7e7f5f4
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/games/metroid/dread/
  date_modified: 2021-12-31T22:36:34Z
  content_text: I play Metroid Dread over the course of 2½ months.
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  id: 48bb8405-b255-4889-99aa-dc6608016e0b
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-12-30T00:42:39Z
  content_text: If small changes in long diffed lines bother you, consider upgrading your differ.
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  id: dac6dc30-aa35-41eb-b10b-a1bf55defdc6
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-12-30T00:22:14Z
  content_text: Homebrew is the new Freshmeat.
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  id: e9662810-762e-4cb1-bd08-6f8752f39773
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-12-17T07:29:02Z
  content_text: Pervasive dark-mode support limits what you’re willing to have on-screen when you’re winding down for bed.
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  id: 1d83d901-580a-4887-9ef2-5a2d72980245
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-12-07T09:23:51Z
  content_text: I discover md2blog, a brutally simple static-site generator.
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  id: 1e6b220c-34f6-4bf1-bb4f-576c72f593b8
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-12-05T08:22:52Z
  content_text: I dig an idea out of my pile of brain droppings and display it for all to see, with some explanation and no justification.
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  id: cac6f438-efa3-4367-a6fb-3d1731c9eac3
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-12-01T01:24:53Z
  content_text: You might want to check all CAPCOM posts at the start of a new month, not just the new ones.
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  id: 0d8b9266-39b3-4ff7-8243-d061e5687fca
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-11-30T07:04:07Z
  content_text: I consider when to start trimming my feeds and briefly take a trip down memory lane.
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  id: 29c113ce-4d1e-4470-b17c-d0683307198a
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-11-26T03:52:21Z
  content_text: I explain how and why I do things differently when I’m writing in gemtext as opposed to Markdown.
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  id: 4a519eeb-61a7-4b23-862a-6701edd7601b
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/parthenon/
  date_modified: 2021-11-26T02:57:03Z
  content_text: I add Howard Roark’s critique of the Parthenon so I don’t have to look at it on an unstyled web page with no dark mode, em dashes, or curly quotes.
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  id: d723932a-54e8-4b4f-a9c6-3b4f16074e2a
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-11-26T02:04:29Z
  content_text: I ponder all the different speeds I can charge my laptop at.
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  id: 0863e90f-45bc-4766-a146-15670ecf8cd5
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-11-17T04:28:11Z
  content_text: Gemini does not need new protocols for publishing.
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  id: 462dc1e8-53a2-4c2e-a463-548d7455bb1b
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-11-13T08:01:58Z
  content_text: I discuss power-saving technologies for solar-powered Apache servers.
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  id: b2450c7a-c947-42f2-ac22-97c029e62bcd
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-11-10T05:44:17Z
  content_text: I’m trying to not install Rosetta. So far, so good.

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  id: 450134ca-6710-4ae1-a7d4-9880882d07ef
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-11-07T03:35:15Z
  content_text: I get a new toy and talk about it in two different entries.
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  id: 8adde908-8d7d-4b72-b0cf-7ae327b369a3
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-10-02T22:12:34Z
  content_text: I desire fun mail.
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  id: 59fe4dfa-ea31-4ace-8bb8-8d6827b1428a
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-10-01T06:30:32Z
  content_text: 'Personal-computer improvements: can’t stop, won’t stop.'
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  id: 576be873-c402-44a0-bbf9-a2d4fe1387e2
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-10-03T03:50:27Z
  content_text: I discuss /now and /uses pages.
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  id: 7ddfb4e1-d68f-4432-a643-ac174e77b612
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-09-29T07:28:30Z
  content_text: Lagrange adds bookmarks and I clean house.
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  id: be6b6b81-7d2f-4dca-b46d-a34bd8090e28
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-09-26T03:48:29Z
  content_text: Distributing video-game ROM savestates as songs in an album.
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  id: 7c0817a0-c499-48aa-b181-20860e9486ba
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-09-24T06:04:58Z
  content_text: 'I note the passing of the “[website] under construction” meme, and discuss one reason that contributed to its passing. Spoiler: I blame blogs.'
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  id: 930b2d3b-ddc3-42af-a094-1bb2a3cfb20e
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-09-24T04:35:56Z
  content_text: A note on pie-tin sizes.
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  id: 5fd57c2a-f2e1-4280-8c70-e5cfaf46d5d7
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-09-21T21:42:21Z
  content_text: I write about the fn/🌐︎ key on iPadOS 15.
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  id: 780ced91-2987-4afe-965c-12dbb2855e3c
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-09-21T20:31:06Z
  content_text: I discuss all the weird ways one can turn on and off the new Background Sounds feature in iOS 15, with a digression on Shortcuts.
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  id: 44313ba7-e8d5-495f-b16c-9d42a74dfb10
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-09-20T03:07:42Z
  content_text: I eat chocolate mochi cake with peanut-butter frosting and its sub-mediocrity makes me think about food-quality ratings.
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  id: de50a80d-0799-4101-a03b-bc9e44dfd9d9
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-09-15T15:25:45Z
  content_text: I register my predictions for the upcoming Apple event and log how they turned out. Updated with results and iOS ship dates.
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  id: 368b336a-a8b3-4316-97fa-41175e9c8870
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-09-08T07:04:15Z
  content_text: Lagrange is fantastic, but its feature set doesn’t bat a thousand.
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  id: b4f4b873-2f7c-4195-92e8-cffa6861e2b2
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-08-27T08:06:58Z
  content_text: I describe an evolutionary step in this capsule’s branding.
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  id: e6b99123-8117-4a43-9da9-76d07983438a
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/
  date_modified: 2021-08-27T07:40:15Z
  content_text: I change my capsule’s title from “Yet another Gemini capsule” to “Halfway to Mars”.
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  id: 15312af6-d925-4ea7-88ad-940a036566d8
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-08-26T08:04:29Z
  content_text: I discuss my Gemini workflow and how new things on this capsule get from my computers to yours.
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  id: beabb650-0ffd-4fdd-9a12-9d7d22133f34
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-08-24T06:33:53Z
  content_text: I didn’t eat for three days again. It wasn’t nearly as difficult as it usually is.
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  id: d9292bd6-0e5b-4829-a436-f21f8d7d45a8
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-08-05T07:54:36Z
  content_text: Photo management for the Switch vs. for the iPad.
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  id: 2fab404e-1a68-46d1-8d94-fe7254e48761
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-07-16T04:38:44Z
  content_text: I discover ⌘→ is broken on iOS, too.
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  id: 50fd8ad1-781a-437b-85a2-f68885558efc
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-07-10T10:43:26Z
  content_text: I write a script for Boop.
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  id: 85482e04-4d94-417a-91de-e850a83898a4
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-06-28T05:10:39Z
  content_text: “Whom should I see less of?”
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  id: bab6285b-d383-4794-b5ef-c49b4640d352
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-06-27T00:49:23Z
  content_text: Developers pick names and scientists watch.
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  id: bb1de703-28fb-46fc-8d8f-c85f5a200f7e
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-06-08T02:47:59Z
  content_text: I watch the WWDC 2021 keynote and Platforms State of the Union, and look back at what I thought would happen and what happened that I liked.
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  id: 7c20c608-2294-45f7-9a56-992dff09e9e1
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-06-03T08:53:00Z
  content_text: WWDC 2021 predictions.
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  id: f553406d-fff5-4e45-85b8-9ccfbc2860f6
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-05-28T07:46:16Z
  content_text: I notice that CAPCOM incentivizes me to behave like a YouTube celebrity.
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  id: 56c690c0-8984-491e-8414-45e7d4f2d473
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-05-09T20:07:56Z
  content_text: Like benk of tilde.team, I like vertical whitespace.
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  id: c9c74aee-d864-4a6e-9796-cb434f79edc9
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-05-08T04:26:55Z
  content_text: Deno is still very much in flux.
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  id: 1596eddc-6548-447a-8875-24adbc74bbf3
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-05-08T03:09:52Z
  content_text: When do you retire an old computer because it just sucks up too much power to run as a server 24/7?
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  id: 214e7ccd-9df6-4e12-9508-767a072c1d7b
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-05-08T02:32:52Z
  content_text: Keeping Gemtext things simpler than what I’d end up doing in HTML.
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  id: 27e56846-1fb7-48da-93ac-6bd3c04e5598
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-05-07T06:19:31Z
  content_text: Hey, I still like fiddling with fonts on web pages.
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  id: 3d89a745-898b-4d1e-bcb6-bcc00c3acf37
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-04-28T07:50:24Z
  content_text: Posts on /scrawlspace/ sometimes disappear and reappear. I explain why.
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  id: 1cf0770d-3fd2-4df5-8b38-d47895df1620
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-04-28T01:00:55Z
  content_text: I choose a new Siri voice.
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  id: 4965a6fb-88e8-4704-b482-bd7c5f4637e9
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-04-26T09:15:37Z
  content_text: Using aliases to use delta with git only on request.
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  id: 0f8df4bc-d661-40dd-846b-c5514d315028
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-04-24T07:56:03Z
  content_text: Apple blogging over port 1965 is more likely than you think.
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  id: 21f06ed7-bf96-4049-a287-8cb26161c6f4
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-04-15T09:58:45Z
  content_text: A Gemini server in 21 lines of Deno-backed JavaScript.
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  id: e1ec549a-3bb9-4b84-96fb-f3429c8ce996
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-04-14T09:28:22Z
  content_text: 'Gemini and HTTP have different teloi: Deno edition'
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  id: a4150079-defe-40e3-9b07-76a8158b553d
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-04-10T01:52:03Z
  content_text: Conditional $PATH prepending in the fish shell.
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  id: b7a7b81e-8bc7-4870-b922-c796b87a6fc6
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-04-03T08:42:35Z
  content_text: On personal wikis.
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  id: 60811ba4-6492-4725-85cd-a2c271932659
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-04-01T10:00:23Z
  content_text: Happy April 1!
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  id: 4d82a061-40d7-44ef-8e8e-85b8b1f337e9
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-03-20T10:03:09Z
  content_text: deno put on some weight.
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  id: e38eb415-c2f6-4e38-83c3-a236e9e9a2cf
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-03-18T09:02:05Z
  content_text: TextExpander doesn’t know how much time it saves me.
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  id: f9337e7e-c7ea-406c-9b96-0348961ecfc0
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-03-18T08:21:58Z
  content_text: I missed a cool date.
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  id: 92e8eb4f-1ddd-495c-b746-55b42ba74213
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-03-17T09:18:55Z
  content_text: Considering a common Gemini bookmark format. (I’m both for and against.)
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  id: 9579f161-e046-4215-9514-87634238b5b3
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-03-11T10:38:32Z
  content_text: Fun with a weighted blanket, and I haven’t even slept under it yet.
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  id: 7285981d-d701-43b2-b6de-2e6b831e5cb9
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-02-27T02:24:35Z
  content_text: As desktop-background technology becomes better able to pretend your computer is a window onto the world, the subtle discrepancies between a real window and your background photo become more glaring.
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  id: 0c57fb51-3de4-4ce8-9909-2e3545c76e6c
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-02-26T10:41:32Z
  content_text: Node bad. Deno…does anyone know yet?
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  id: 3658a41a-a966-49c2-97ef-900272cba1bb
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-02-25T13:41:54Z
  content_text: I remove my favicon.txt. You probably won’t notice.
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  id: 49995780-484a-48fe-9d44-a052015e5f9d
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-01-22T09:50:56Z
  content_text: Toward a (baroque) Gemini-server logging format.
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  id: f4a2611d-45ed-4f5f-a4e5-ecd68b7d3150
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-01-14T05:16:36Z
  content_text: I discover onefetch and am only the slightest bit disappointed it doesn’t recognize Gemini files.
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  id: dc1e8474-601f-4caa-9b0c-6038f5e0b76c
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-01-09T09:07:16Z
  content_text: This may be a bad idea, but have you considered making a scavenger hunt while at an art gallery?
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  id: 51a83ef2-cb22-4571-9709-915fd86b93d7
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2021-01-03T00:29:52Z
  content_text: Against my meta-level desires, I drop down to merely dark chocolate from 72%. This was a winning move.
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  id: cf249ded-7838-4eb4-8931-09586c73850e
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2020-12-24T11:10:38Z
  content_text: 'Links around gemtext prose: before is good, after is good, but when you want both…?'
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  id: ad72dd45-0f59-405d-9fbe-0b6258ec9a76
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2020-11-25T09:15:08Z
  content_text: xz, in multithreaded mode, doesn’t compress as well as its single-threaded mode does.
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  id: a8896425-5563-40d8-b1aa-3e128af066e2
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2020-10-24T23:19:05Z
  content_text: 'Public-service announcement: Have you checked your TLS cert recently?'
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  id: 80cced89-c26c-47b7-af74-735533e1a25b
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2020-10-23T09:27:06Z
  content_text: Writing in raw HTML, plus other scrawls.
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  id: fc724597-8772-4004-80a9-da0dab097738
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2020-10-19T08:22:10Z
  content_text: Homebrew desync and lossy-vs-lossless WebP.
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  id: fc1a0126-d208-4079-8797-4bac7a14850d
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2020-10-11T02:25:13Z
  content_text: I realize I am the only person in Geminispace who uses WebP.
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  id: a1e34cd8-05ad-4981-a854-a25070625bc3
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2020-10-07T03:37:23Z
  content_text: In which I am told how Spacewalk works (instead of how I kinda thought it worked).
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  id: c16a17f1-926b-420a-9560-2797db3eb8c5
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/
  date_modified: 2020-10-06T09:06:10Z
  content_text: Unveil /scrawlspace/ and “I kind of resent blogs”, the inaugural post.
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  id: b16de684-18f9-4e2b-aebc-fb96f12e7097
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/sywtlf/weigh/
  date_modified: 2020-10-02T04:55:45Z
  content_text: Unveil /sywtlf/weigh/.
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  id: b71fbd06-1796-4a20-8b05-516e09bdb041
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/ascii-art/
  date_modified: 2020-09-20T23:48:00Z
  content_text: Unveil /ascii-art/.
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  id: 4d4ddcda-0e18-40c9-b5f2-076e59cae30a
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/sywtlf/
  date_modified: 2020-09-20T06:28:31Z
  content_text: Unveil “So you want to lose fat”.
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  id: 06037a3c-4f3f-418d-8be3-0bc26a9d74f9
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/colophon/
  date_modified: 2020-09-17T07:24:43Z
  content_text: Add /colophon/.
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  id: 9a90eebd-83e8-440c-bbaa-40f8b024a925
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/
  date_modified: 2020-09-15T07:46:01Z
  content_text: Add link to Atom feed.
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  id: 14f1a84c-df7e-43ce-b20c-5a40398188ef
  url: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/
  date_modified: 2020-09-08T00:41:07Z
  content_text: Add homepage.
