Update

[aleteoryx]

so, on Oct. 8, I broke my right wrist. happened 1 week to-the-day after my laptop crapped out (she's back, by the way). I am right dominant, so this put me out of commission for a bit! I have most of my fine motor skills back now (thumb is still pretty tight but eh), but it is non-weight-bearing atm.

the mandatory hiatus has caused a lot of problems, and for reasons I may be busier than usual (they said it couldn't be done!) for a bit.

anyways!

Recent Things

I wrote some fanfiction that I am actually proud of. it's short, for ducktales 2017, and very angsty. find it on my ao3.

I participated some in the fandom_empire mahjong event this year, and will probably participate in more as time goes on. despite my complete lack of EF recently, I have had a lot of fun writing stuff for it.

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I have completely fallen in love with the Tcl programming language! I haven't discussed it here but a few of my recent projects have been written in it. I have several drafts of a post discussing why I think its design is as good as it is, so look forward to that when I can put some brainpower to it!

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bluesky is huge now! I have some thoughts on that that I will probably be posting sometime, but I think on a protocol level it blows activitypub out of the water in a few ways (...and falls short in others). anyways, as an exercise in both writing more Tcl and learning atproto, I wrote a bluesky feed in tcl! currently the websocket implementation is a bit broken, but the problem only appears once every N hours, so I have yet to source the cause. other than that, it is a solid reimplementation of the official bluesky template (typescript) in Tcl, with additional moderation tooling. if you play with it, let me know!

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mk.aleteoryx.me died.

this was preventable, but I was recovering from a broken wrist and my VPS provider nuked things the day I finally had it in me to try and pay for shit. I had the money the whole time, my bank are just assholes about foreign transactions.
I have come to terms with it.

I also lost my bookwyrm, peertube, and owncast instances.
I have come to terms with it.

I don't have an easy way to send gravestones for any of this, and I don't plan to for now.

there's not much else to say here, it just sucks. I think I have a spare backup of mk.aleteoryx.me's database somewhere, but not the uploaded files. ultimately the lesson is to never use VPS hosts that can't autobill (like the last one), nor ones that can't bill without 15 minutes on hold with the bank. I will not be saying which company it was, as I do not want to shame them for what was ultimately more problems on my end.

still, I wish they had sent me something other than "we might delete stuff :)" followed by me having a panic attack at the login panel.

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I got a rugged laptop! a Dell Latitude 5404 Something Something Something. they are cheap as shit on eBay and with a bit extra in spare parts I will have a laptop that can take a sledgehammer for ~$200. I am currently considering elementaryOS as the operating-system-of-choice for it.

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so. the trump thing.

yeah.

I don't know what to do. good luck.

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that's about it. I'm going to sleep now, and then I have stuff to get done tomorrow.

I've been ~aleteoryx, g'night.