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Enjoyed two talks during today. One on imposter syndrome, and another on embedded Linux on RISC-V.

We seem to experience some difficulties with the matrix platform but you can watch video streams live through fosdem.org/2021/schedule/strea
clicking "watch live!"

Finally got my own Matrix homeserver running today. Video call performance with my folks back home seemed significantly better. Not mad about it. Got several friends moved over to talking to me there, and made an account for my fiancée. Up next: the rest of my family.

There are a few features I want to add to my crate connchk, but I think I’ll take a tech break this weekend.

Nothing says humpday quite like making sure you’ve patched everything you can patch against recently announced horribad CVE both at work and at home.

Btw we're still having a great time in the #aFediverseChat room on #Matrix: app.element.io/#/room/#afedive 🎉

There have been interesting discussions about topics like #foss, #federation, #opensource, #phones, #OS, but also non-tech topics and just general hanging out. Anyone can join. ☺️

Focusing on violin for the last year has taken a toll on my guitar playing. The two feel almost mutually exclusive in everything but tonal range. Not sure what I’ll do with this realization.

Dissatisfied with the various offerings of the Fediverse, I decided to read the (current) prominent standard to see how it works. Now I understand why the UX across the Fediverse is so painful. ActivityPub and ActivityStreams do nothing to define a concretely interoperable set of services. They just list some open ended, and wholly optional, possibilities for what could be.

Welp, used netplan for the first time today. Didn’t burst into flames or anything.

Released connchk v0.5.0 today, close on the heels of v0.4.0 and as a major refactor. The tool is now available as a library crate as well as a binary crate. To avoid breaking any existing user's TOML declarations there's an additional layer of abstraction, but now the full set of defined resources can be tested in parallel.

crates.io/crates/connchk

Released v0.4.0 of connchk today. Execution of TCP and HTTP connectivity checks now take place in parallel.

crates.io/crates/connchk

Released v0.1.5 of my minimalist tail-like utility staart. This version adds documentation for the underlying library crate, and removes a few unnecessary lines of code.

crates.io/crates/staart

About to register a domain to host some federating services. Probably starting with Matrix and WriteFreely.

This violin journey has been an interesting one to be sure. One that has, on occasion, made me question my own sanity. Many of the challenges stem from 30+ years of playing guitar. There is very little that translates between instruments, and decades of deeply entrenched habits that serve me well on one while making simple things very difficult on the other. When it all comes together the feeling is pretty great.

Your Phone Is Your Castle

"If your home is your physical castle, your phone is your digital castle. More than any other computer, your phone has become the most personal of personal computers and holds the most sensitive digital property a person has..."

puri.sm/posts/your-phone-is-yo

Phosh Overview

"phosh is graphical shell for mobile, touch based devices like smart phones. It’s the default graphical shell on Purism’s Librem 5 (and that’s where it came to life) but projects like Postmarket OS, Mobian and Debian have picked it up putting it into use on other devices as well and contributing patches."

puri.sm/posts/phosh-overview/

And now I’ve got 3 skeins of this BFL. The most recent is 176m/112g. Has a fairly consistent weight and twist compared with the second skein. The first was my first experience on a wheel at all and isn’t nearly as consistent but I’ll still use it in whatever project this goes into.
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