(2026-03-02) I'm back, let's talk about what's happening -------------------------------------------------------- So, spring is here, I'm still alive and thus back as promised. Over the course of the time, you might have seen more daily activity in my Lynx-compatible microblog ([1]), but for those who haven't, here's briefly what happened: 1. I finally moved from NixOS to Void Linux, and planning to move all my remaining machines (except the corporate laptop) to it as well. There were several reasons to do that, but the main essence is that Void gives me much more free space in all senses of this phrase. 2. I created a couple of new purely shell-based utils that can be found inside my sh-goodies ([2]) repo, namely Image Transfer (to replace rusty Caligula) and Mount Manager (as a reliable double to udisks2). Using both on a daily basis, no complaints. 3. Speaking of rusty, the same sh-goodies repo now also has Rusty Checker that allows you to verify whether a FOSS project was written in a particular language (defaults to Rust) without you having to check it out by yourself. Supports GitHub, GitLab and Codeberg. 4. Inside the same repo, I also created PNGizer (that allows to convert any data files to/from a PNG image) and a couple of sterganography experiments, with BlueShift being the most prolific, which I also had created a Web version ([3]) for. 5. Leaning heavily on the microblogging format, I also made the microblog export to a twtxt feed ([4]). Obviously, the feed adheres to the guidelines and links to the full post whenever it exceeds the suggested limits or has multiple lines. 6. Had to repair someone's Casio MTP-1129 running on Miyota 2035 aka Casio 1330 that had been monkied with before, and was very surprised that the module started fully working only after using my cheap demagnetizer on it. 7. Learned how to set up a Mumble server, way simpler than I thought. 8. Reignited my interest in Cistercian numerals. 9. Figured out how to emulate scrolling with the Logitech Marble Mouse trackball. 10. Moved things around in the room so that now I have much more horizontal space to work with, which allowed me to finally dig out my microKORG. The only thing left is finding the time to actually play it... 11. Last but not least, continuing my ongoing battle with AI-pilled colleagues and higher management who want to overengineer everything while saying at the same time that it's me who suggests complicated solutions. Among all these, the item number 5 is probably the most important when it comes to the fate of this very phlog. I don't want to give up on Gopher but I also don't want to keep maintaining several independent blog spaces. I need to think about what to do with that. Maybe, since both of these projects still run on the same VPS, I'm just going to make things reexported for the Gopher server. In other words, I may keep writing for Gopher exclusively but people will be able to also see whatever is going on in the microblog, without having to actually go outside Gopher. Technical implementation of all that (without breaking existing things) might take some time though. So, be patient. I'm not going anywhere just yet. --- Luxferre --- [1]: https://lynx.luxferre.top [2]: https://codeberg.org/luxferre/sh-goodies [3]: https://blueshift.luxferre.top [4]: https://lynx.luxferre.top/twtxt.txt