Space Firefly's Tiny Log ======================== For, mostly, small entries Comments? bosque@sdf.org -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 2025-06-23 08:39:12 It saddens me to see people using AI, instead of teaming up with other people with complementary skills. It's a sympton of a technology that connects us superficially and separates us deeply. 2025-06-23 06:38:31 I've added a new story to this site, a short one, featuring a slave boy "imagining away" the worst of his plight. Not a particularly horrible one. 2025-06-17 16:40:28 Starting my story-game "An Emperor of sorts" Trying to develop a format for the prepatory notes... I won't be writing the prose until (or if) I end having some solid foundation. Say 12 "scenes" outlines... 2025-06-13 10:31:15 I spend so much time staring at a screen at work that I don't want to do techy stuf at home. Sad. 2025-06-10 20:48:53 It's been for a little while. Don't worry too much, it's just that I've been rushing at work lately, also preparing a vacation, an adventury one, hiking with a side of kayaking among seals. Yes, very nice, but also a lot of stuff to prepare. Hoping things will come back to normal here right away. 2025-05-29 10:08:53 Yesterday, I took a double surfski with a less-sporty fellow. Nevertheless, it was quite fun. Thank you winds and waves! 2025-05-27 11:45:29 Paddled a carbonoly zest on rough waters yesterday Oh, boy, what a blast! I feel like 2 inches taller now! => https://www.carbonologysport.com/zest-x-surfski/ 2025-05-26 09:24:15 Two months already! And the space firefly keeps flying, all systems shiny. 2025-05-23 05:41:34 I don't know how true the YT videos about how Europeans are not travelling to the USA anymore. But the USA feels scary, I mean all the hassle that travel is and then, you find/fear even more. 2025-05-22 04:57:20 These days it seems I enjoy creating much more than gaming. I even enjoy sports more than computer gaming. Who'd say?! 2025-05-21 06:17:58 And now, after having "solved" the atom on gopher issue, I'm considering not having an atom feed. Go figure! 2025-05-20 08:57:05 I'll probably slow down after a while I'm mostly editing old stuff, but that will run out, eventually. 2025-05-19 06:28:55 These days is very hard of having evidence of anybody reading your site bots... too many bots 2025-05-18 10:25:18 Is this the true cyberpunk manifesto? => https://drewdevault.com/2025/04/20/2025-04-20-Tech-sector-restistance.html Resistance from the tech sector Drew's Devault 2025-05-17 16:24:31 Just gave my website home page a gophermap, kinda, https://bosque-protector.com 2025-05-14 20:32:09 When I read the phlogs on gopher.club... I feel so wee 2025-05-14 13:26:50 Another sdf server incident. What's going on? :( 2025-05-13 09:22:20 Considering doing a basic atom feed reader for feeds hosted in gopher. It won't be superpopular but sounds fun, and it could be useful to some of us. Something easy to install, maybe in Python... 2025-05-12 08:07:07 Just added a fantasy map on the storygames menu. It took some work on inkarnate, but I kinda of like the result. New rule for Space Firefly: Entries shorter than 100 words go to this tiny log Entries longer than 99 words go to the phlog Easy! 2025-05-09 17:33:46 Added new chapters to my new ttrpg: health and magic! 2025-05-07 08:08:45 You might notice I'm working in some ttrpg rule-system. This is mostly for my own fun at creating them, but feel free to enjoy them when they're done :) 2025-05-05 07:23:57 Those who say Gopher is dead haven't been in sdf.org for a long while. If ever! 2025-05-04 11:34:36 I'm arpa now, btw! 2025-05-04 11:33:38 I've posted twice on my "Heart of Valor" story. It's a relatively small one, being 25-ish pages long, so it can be read in a couple of sittings. 2025-05-03 09:34:41 Thinking about the recent outage in sdf.org, I decided to finally apply for arpa membership. 2025-05-02 11:29:21 Had a look at gopher.club and it looks like there's been a swelling in our ranks! 2025-05-01 14:56:02 Well, it seems sdf had some mantenience to do. It's funny how fast you can learn to love this little thing. 2025-04-29 11:03:41 OK, I've also simplified the "root" gophermap. By addind modification dates to each entry, there's no need for a separate "new entries" section. Dates alone should make that obvious. 2025-04-29 08:34:59 Making my gophermaps simpler. Not too minimalist, but I'm removing the... funny parts except on the main gophermap. 2025-04-28 08:03:30 Recently, I got two nice letters (emails) from nice gopher/gemini people. Thank you all! (I need to write to other people in the smol nets like right now) 2025-04-28 08:00:43 Oh, dear, I might got the PicoCalc craze! => https://www.clockworkpi.com/picocalc It has LORA, it can be coded in BASIC Its batteries should last for ever... I need a cold shower. 2025-04-26 11:32:45 It's Space' Firefly's first month. And we're still flying! The 'verse has been kind to us and we're happy. Two cups of Mudder's milk for everybody! (But kids, sorry kids) 2025-04-25 07:55:34 The best way to oppose an extremist is .not. to become an extremist of the opposite kind. Command your passions! 2025-04-24 06:23:00 Please contact your local gopher-er today. It means you care. 2025-04-23 13:19:07 It looks like sdf.org had a bit of a flu. Did I miss an update notice? 2025-04-22 08:42:49 I was able to revive the old draft of one of my gamebook, only to find I mustn't finish it. Oh, the irony! 2025-04-21 22:12:01 Pope Francis is dead :( RIP 2025-04-21 07:56:57 Gopher's two souls theory Thesis: There are 2 souls in Gopher * Ancient content from eons ago, preserved as it was * Nice people posting new hand and heart made content 2025-04-20 09:20:02 He's risen! He's risen indeed! Hallelujah! 2025-04-19 07:17:34 Price perspective: a firefox addon Have you considered how $100 look to somebody else in the world? A chinese factory worker, a billionaire? https://drewdevault.com/2025/04/04/2025-04-04-Price-perspective.html 2025-04-19 06:02:46 The fediverse considered toxic https://drewdevault.com/2022/07/09/Fediverse-toxicity.html 2025-04-17 10:50:14 An useful collections of tutorials https://pandaqi.com/tutorials/ 2025-04-17 09:20:39 It's all a secret but I'm working on single page blog. It's all in Spanish, and it's in https://bosque-protector.com/luciernaga/ Luciérnaga is Spanish for firefly :) 2025-04-16 08:58:20 A good source of generally good blog posts it's the Bear Blogs' Trending Posts feed. Link: https://bearblog.dev/discover/feed/ 2025-04-15 07:10:13 "There's nothing like good, old-fashioned butter, but the good, old-fashioned heart attack" From an 80's UK TV show. 2025-04-14 10:43:29 "If you're not changing your mind, it's likely you aren't having an argument (or hanging out with the wrong people). While it can be fun to change someone else's position, it is also a gift to learn enough to change ours." - Seth Godin at "How to win a argument with a Toddler" => https://seths.blog/2025/04/how-to-win-an-argument-with-a-toddler/ 2025-04-14 07:38:13 Considering going arpa, so I can go more exciting things here. Games perhaps, not sure. 2025-04-13 08:10:38 Just to inform you of my webpage, mostly sharing my own hyper-fiction of a juvenile, fantasy nature Bosque Protector at https://bosque-protector.com All in Spanish, certainly! 2025-04-12 12:05:33 Thinking about ditching my storygames section. I'm simply bad at writing fiction in English and it takes too much time for something that might be of little value to you. Comments? -> bosque@sdf.org 2025-04-11 17:36:10 Just started a new section to share my attempts at coding, starting with a, sort of, pseudo-random number generarion "a la" von Neuman on ruby 2025-04-11 17:34:02 It's funny how the small differences between Linux and BSD can cause so many headaches! It's good exercise for the brain, though :) 2025-04-11 07:53:02 Watched Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" yesterday. The final speech that, in other times, I felt basic, almost naive, was deeply moving and a great reminder. Go watch it. We do live in interesting times. 2025-04-10 09:09:48 Just created a tiny script to generate my dates so I can read them easily in 'ed'. Scripts are the way to go with ed. The one line is date "+%Y-%m-%d %T" Wed Apr 9 20:47:38 UTC 2025 We're living in interesting times; hoping for boring times. Wed Apr 9 09:02:30 UTC 2025 Hello, world!