ID: 3b646d57-97e7-4d59-bcc5-3521fbc2bcb3
Title: What i've been up to (2021)
Authors: Nova[有線魔女] <novaburst@envs.net>
Date: 2021-07-10T02:09:15-00:00
Topics: Life

* Rewriting a tor wrapper in JavaScript to posix shell script (self-challenge #1)
	- TODO: find it and upload it on a git repository

* Contributing to a project written in OCaml (self-challenge #2)
	- Yep, that was Logarion, hehe

* Writing a set of shell scripts and uploading them on a git repository
	- Repository URL: https://gt.kalli.st/novaburst/posix-sh-tools

* Maintaining my personal Alpine overlay active, and updating it whenever needed
	- Repository URL: https://gitdab.com/novaburst-dev/aports

* Reading e-books on my computer
	- See post ID #d239d2cb

* Basically leaving Telegram as a platform
	- Only using it for purposes other than messaging

* Converting CSS3 files into CSS 2.1
	- Context: just like HTML5, CSS3 is a pseudostandard

* Writing posts for my blog , and updating existing ones (while making it available outside HTTP as well)
	- Unironically with Logarion that's really simple and painless to do

* Interacting on the following protocols (either actively or passively)
	- ActivityPub (mostly Mastodon, though I don't do that frequently)
	- E-mail (mailing lists)
	- IRC (mostly at irc.tilde.chat)
	- XMPP (i'm hanging out at four chats, more or less)

* No longer using the smartphone
	- 1. it's a pain to actually use
	- 2. even though the charger works fine, the device doesn't go well with it

* Being busy on studies, this is the last year so trying to do my best
	- Seriously I want to get this done

* Re:initialized my personal logarion git branch, and prepared a patch. 
	- The current branch is now 'mirror' instead of 'wired'
	- I'm mostly tinkering with the code so the branch may disappear randomly :P

* Occasionally writing short posts on my twtxt microblog

* Abandoned the modern web
	- It's a lost cause
	- Chromium itself has a lot of CVEs for each version
	- And forget about Firefox, it's already dead

* Made my own build of 'st' (sort of) to use it as a replacement to LXTerminal on my computer because:
	- LXTerminal depends on GTK+3 , it's practically impossible to build it with GTK+2 on Alpine, and
	- I can pair up st(1) and tabbed(1) and have them work just fine.
	- Terminal emulation doesn't need to be so complex.

* Improved the code of my fork of static-site-scripts, inheriting some stuff from Logarion and saait

* Passively learning new languages (both human languages and programming languages)
	- Can't do it actively just yet

* Managed to compile few toolchains on my computer , though I wouldn't consider it an achievement.