social.solarpunk.au

social.solarpunk.au

vidak | @vidak@social.solarpunk.au

# LOCATION

The unceded, stolen land of the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land!!

# QUOTATIONS

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. ~winnie-the-pooh

Metal Slug

๐Ÿข Nazca Corporation
๐Ÿ“… 1996
๐Ÿ–ฅ Android, Arcade, Game Boy Advance, Linux, Mac, Neo Geo AES, Neo Geo CD, PS1, PS3, PS4...

Metal Slug Screenshot Metal Slug Screenshot

Look I kinda did have a breakthrough with the text editors

Both are lisp, though, haha

Will put the links for the code when I wake up, but just go to my sourcehut

@dthompson omg โค๏ธ

The 2025 edition of the Autumn Lisp Game Jam begins on Halloween! ๐Ÿ‘ป ๐ŸŽƒ Mull some cider, warm up your REPL by the fire, and make a little game with your favorite Lisp dialect!

Sign up for the jam now over on itch.io: https://itch.io/jam/autumn-lisp-game-jam-2025

just updated to debian 13 woooooooo

Look, a guy created his own hex-layout keyboard / MIDI controller: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-SpIecfIZ0
Also, a different guy made something very similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDELOwrXwqo
Also, this company makes them, too: https://dualo.com/en/exquis/
The hex pattern allows for a variety of different isometric note layouts where intervals and chords types (maj/min) always have the same pattern, like a lot of stringed instruments, and unlike a piano.

mac โšก mac

hah. looking at mastodon on a CRT, and it triggered the "your screen is so small, it must be a phone!" styling

A photo of Firefox showing digipres.club on a CRT monitor, at 800x600 resolution. The menus are collapsed to single icons on the side, and only two posts are visible

My (German) review for @jesperjuul's book "Too Much Fun" on the has just been released on @hsozkult:

http://txt3.de/hsk2

Tomorrow I will implement the search engine in 150 lines of scheme instead of Haskell, and python

phoneless meetings are a great and accessible security practice as well as a nice way to hang out anyway

Consider: USENET

are there any perth ham radio people on the fedi??

In our quest to move away from GitHub, we have a working self-hosted cgit instance as well as a runner for CI.

The last missing piece is to find a way to safely expose it to the world.

Are there any good Cloudflare alternatives to protect the origin?

Tor works fine, but I would like to also be reachable from the clearnet.

@rc2014 yeah surely a resistor

I moved my Gemini server to a host that uses much less energy and is always online (an old laptop)! I haven't updated my pages in a while, but I'm a lot more motivated to do that now that the pages are actually accessible!

gemini://sunshinegardens.org/~xjix/

I haven't blogged about my proxy setup, but maybe I should! I'm still dreaming of powering this thing with the sun, but my budget is a lot tighter than it used to be.

@kali wao! so cool

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