April 21st, 2020:

	As of today, I've been working from home for five weeks.  In 
fact, like many of you, I haven't left the house much during our period of 
isolation and social distancing due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

My workload hasn't changed, which is good.  I was concerned I'd either be 
left bored and underworked, or swamped with work thanks to my VPs having 
time to dream up new projects.  No, status quo was the way to go.

I occasionally get breaks in the action.  Take today for example: I was 
stuck waiting for a vendor quote (on which my next work tasks relied), so 
to pass the time, I decided to build Julienxx's graphical Gemini client, 
Castor[1] on my eeePC.

Happily, it failed shortly after typing make.  The version of Rust I was 
using was too old, but it was the only version in the most recent Debian 
stable repository.  I did a bit of research by asking the duck, and after 
a crash course in both Rustup and pip3 (remember I have no idea what I'm 
doing), I was able to satisfy all Castor's dependencies and thus install 
Castor proper.

I like it.

I spent part of the afternoon playing around before reading Solderpunk's 
Hi-Ten Heroes[2] gemlog (my new favourite thing).  It makes me want to 
start my own gemlog at some point...

Maybe once I have some free time.  Not certain I want to learn yet another 
syntax, but knowing me I suspect I'll be cutting gems before summer.



[1] https://git.sr.ht/~julienxx/castor
[2] gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/solderpunk/hitenheroes/