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#Goals2025

Moving away from the constant upgrade cycle & moving closer to the ideals of #PermaComputing #MalleableSoftware

Design and setup a redundant system of old/used, cheap, low-power devices running ia: #Guix, #Linux, #FreeBSD, #macOS, #HaikuOS, #Plan9Front, #X11, #P9, #NFS, all working together

Become an expert on #MicroControllers #ESP32 #STM32 #RP2040 #MIPS #RiscV

DIY sensors which sing like birds to communicate their status

DIY robots "drones"

Move as much as possible of my computing needs to the #Terminal, #Emacs, #Rio #CLI #TUI #P9

Get an #3DPrinter and learn to use it

Design and build my own portable 8dot #braille terminal & try out if 3x3 or 3x4 dots is also workable.

Design and build my own low-power computers, their OS, and tools

Writing more of my own tools #DIY

#SmallTalk #ObjectPascal #Prolog #Scheme #Racket #CommonLisp #Haskell #Rust #Go #ObjectiveC #Swift

Deploy #LoRa #ReticullumNetwork #RNodes #MeshCore #Meshtastic

Start an #InternetResiliencyClub

Add #Tor, #I2P support by #WebProxy

#SolarPowered #SelfHost over #I2P, #OnionService #Blog #Wiki #Repositories #GopherHole #Darcs #Mercurial

#SelfHost my own #EmailServer, which will only accept email from #KnownServers #CommunityEmail #MutualEmailAcceptance

Share files via #BitTorrent over #I2P

DIY #HomeAutomation
DIY #GardeningAutomation
DIY #GreenHouse

Get a house cat, train the cat, use voice and gestures

Start asking money for advice & technology support

Build/program my own opportunistic and strange cryptocurrency miners #BTC, #XMR, #ZEC, etc #Art

#MakeMoreArt #LearnToDraw #Learn3DModeling #LearnGenerativeArt #LearnToComposeAmbientMusic

#ReCreateJottit #ReCreateInstikiWiki

#WriteMore #PublishMore #Letters, #Essays, #Missives, #Reports, #Treatise

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So, I'm at a crossroads. I'm contemplating:

I feel like I'm slowing down with CTRAN development. After all, it "works"... but it's not "right."

The write-up is just a hard slog.

Moving on to a new tool might give me some inspiration on how to improve CTRAN. But I don't want to leave a trail of mostly-finished projects in my wake.

The C project is a bit special to me. It's also something people might actually use - unusual for one of my projects! It's for Psion #EPOC16 and would enable a huge number of old games to run on the Series 3a/c/mx.

I was hoping to use NeoVim, but with clangd being awkward, I'd have to use VS Code.

#introduction

VA3KZR as of 2023-12-09

Started with #Commodore Vic-20 - at school, we learned graphical #LOGO on PETS and Apple IIe's... crashed the school Unisys ICON network far too often...

Headed to college, *thought* I would be heavily involved in, electronics design, and engineering - instead, it was #programming.

First was #VisualBasic 1.0; next, Borland #Delphi 1.0 / #ObjectPascal - still dabble with #FreePascal #Lazarus, a smidge of #Java, a lot of #CSharp and some #Python.

OK, #introduction tags #running #smashrun #beekeeping #programming #objectpascal #delphi #weather #raspberrypi I'm a computer scientist (jack of all trades) who generally implements the ideas of cleverer people. I keep bees.

More intro moved from profile:

My past was risk analysis programming for engineers and human factors, but more recently the bottom dropped out of the market for consultants. Now I have a proper job putting stuff in databases and analysing it

Vegetarian wanting to be vegan