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## Wed 21 Jun 2023 10:51:18 AM EDT

Haven’t written in a week or so–I think. Just figured I’d write something right now since I have a few minutes to spare. Thing is, I really don’t know what to write about.

I’m currently sitting at the kitchen table, typing this on a keyboard I have plugged into my tablet; I’m using the tablet to connect to the “server” via SSH through the use of ConnectBot. Why I’m sharing that info, I dunno. I just think it’s neat that I can have all these different pieces of technology talk to one another.

Yesterday I was goofing around with Termux on the tablet and an old Pixel 2XL–just toying with running VNC’d X-sessions on them. I was kind of impressed with the quality of things when I started watching YouTube videos through Firefox in those sessions. I don’t know, guess I’m easily entertained. I was also toying with getting the tablet to display another computer’s graphics–that honestly halfway stemmed from me tinkering with running framebuffer applications on that computer a few days earlier. The framebuffer thing came from me removing a desktop environment and forgetting to re-assign a desktop manager to fire X into the remaining environment. I was like, “well, I want to play around in the console more than in a GUI, anyway, so let’s not worry about starting X immediately.” That eventually led me to remembering that framebuffer graphics were a thing, so I went down the path of trying to seek out applications to play with. That was a fun little exploration–as there really isn’t much documentation on the Internet from a user’s standpoint on using the framebuffer for fun and productivity. It’s like, when window managers became better and better, and the ‘nix world began to compete more with the Windows and Mac worlds, people forgot about the framebuffer. I wonder if maybe there will be a resurgence in the future, like everyone’s somewhat recent interest in reviving 8- and 16-bit computing.

I also played around with “My House“ a few days ago. I didn’t make it far–I still haven’t progressed past level one. I do hope to sit and give it some serious attention sometime soon. To be honest, I haven’t even played Doom II–I only ever played Doom, as the sequel wasn’t available on the high school sneakernet when I was a kid. Yep, I played a part in passing around copies of games back in the day. Unfortunately, I was only a leecher–if I can apply that term to the sneakernet–as I didn’t have a connection to the ‘net back then. Heck, only now am I trying to explore BBS’ and the like, to try and see what all I missed out on. Guess that kind of explains a little of my interest in toying around with older protocols–and those that mimic them.

Meanwhile, I see that my gemini capsule has hit Kennedy’s index, so I’ve at least helped to bring bits of my hometown into a searchable portion of geminispace.

I don’t know. I think that’s enough writing for now.

Thanks for reading;

–J

Reflection

One of my first posts this year was a reaction I had in response to this project of bringing my blogging efforts into the geminispace; after reviewing a few of my earlier posts, I had come to the conclusion that I was fairly mean, ugly, and hateful. Well, at this exact moment in time, I feel that I can say that I still am–to an extent–and that after even further review of my older writings, a lot of it has to do with life experiences. See, while I was continuing to work on this silly project, I lucked out, I guess, and managed to discover a few posts that were even older than those I knew I had a copy of–thank you Internet Archive!

I managed to find a partial archive of a blog I attempted to keep circa 2004 on “blogdrive”. While some of those posts do have a touch of my snarky-ness, it was a lot milder, actually, when compared to things written in 2007–the earliest I still had a personal archive of. So, looking back at that, I felt an odd little feeling of–I don’t know–relief? It was a little odd, yet somehow refreshing to see that I wasn’t as negative as I had become. I just struggle now with the notion that so much of my life had been changed in such a negative way to have turned me into such an angry ass.

Fortunately, I can say that the bulk of those times are well behind me, and that the only thing I have to deal with these days are the unpleasant residuals that live on inside of me and the occasional torment of associated memories. But still, I do see that damage has been done, and I wonder if I will ever fully recover and become closer to the person I once had been prior to my first marriage. I know that I won’t be able to get very close to being that person again; I mean, I can’t, as too many other experiences have happened since to sour some of my opinions of humanity. Those different experiences–though removed from the primary situation causing my attitude shift–ended up existing during and following those uglier times in my life, so they hit harder with differing vibrations than they would have had I been my less- or un-tainted self.

So, I don’t know. I’m slightly lost and bewildered, and yet feeling slightly better about myself at the same time, now knowing for myself that, yes, I once was a different person.

I’m still an ass–and I still have quite a few negative feelings about people in general. But I’m definitely not the same person I was in 2007, and I’m not the person I had been in early 2004. I wonder if there’s any chance that I could find anything written of any worth or meaning in 2003 or earlier–I think I would like to try and know myself of that time period once more.

On another related note, I would like to try and explore a little more on what I’ve experienced with my dealings with other people outside of my personal relationships–rehash just a few of the things I’ve experienced with the public at large. I think I need to see hat it is about people that I truly dislike, and see what there is for me to do to love and trust my fellow man again, if it’s even possible.

I don’t know.

Thanks for reading;

–J

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So, I’m finding it kind of interesting that it seems that portions of the Internet are finding ways of destroying themselves.

Just a random thought, based on my own uninformed opinion.

I really wanted to write more on that thought, but have totally lost everything that I was cooking up. I’m blank.

Ugh.

In other thoughts, I think I may want to kill my “signature” below. I dunno. Is it necessary?

Thanks for reading;

–J

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So, if by any chance you–the reader–are someone that has been paying attention
to what I’ve been writing–or posting, rather, as I’ve not necessarily been
writing a whole lot of anything–I think I can proudly announce that I am
finished tinkering with getting my various blogging efforts in order. Maybe.

A recap / explanation of what I’ve managed to do or accomplish is:

1.) I re-synchronized all of my self-hosted WordPress formatted posts to my
gemlog and to the WordPress.com location.

2.) I went through all of my old WP posts and tried to update all the broken
links.

3.) I started tinkering with my not-so-quick-and-easy gemlog posting script to
try and include a way of automatically uploading posts written in gemini to
Wordpress.

4.) I lcoated a WordPress plugin that someone created that automatically exports
fresh WordPress posts to gemini *.gmi files.

5.) I tinkered with my not-so-quick-and-easy script some more, to make sure that
I could have the WP plugin and my script use the same *.gmi files without
arguing about permission errors or attempting to create duplicate files.

6.) (or maybe 5.5) I figured out how to account for me being silly and
possibly including capitalized letters or spaces in my gmi filenames when
saving, and put in checks to rename things to lowercase and use hyphens in order
to be compatible with the WP plugin.

7.) I figured out how to use nano as something a little closer to a word
processor. YAY!

I would love to sit and write more about how I accomplished all of this, but
I’ve now given myself a slight headache in figuring all this stuff out. I’m just
happy to have something working, finally.

I hope to come back soon with a little more of an explanation of how I did all
this, probably with a reveal of my terrible and likely insecure bash script. I
would also like to come back and share which plugins, scripts, servers and
anything else I’m using, as I really want to give credit where credit is due. I
mean, really, I wouldn’t be getting any of this crap accomplished without the
use of countless other people’s work.

Well, I think that’s it for now. Until the next time.

Thanks for reading;

–J

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Okay, so now, I’m testing this to see if it will break long lines automatically
or not at 80 columns. So far, it looks like it’s doing it’s job. Sweet! I like
that I finally have it working.

And, I figured out how to run a spell-checker with nano, which works pretty
nicely, as I couldn’t find a console based word processor that really suited
what I was wanting to accomplish.

Thanks for reading;

–J

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Thanks for reading;

–J

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## Sat 10 Jun 2023 09:56:32 PM EDT

So, I think I have finally figured out the problems I was having with my script last night–proofreading the script for misspelled variables did the trick. I swear, that seems to be the problem whenever I have issues with something I am attempting to create. Speaking of proofreading and misspellings, I’m hoping to update things and get myself into using wordgrinder or something to create and edit posts–just so that I can have spellcheck; I mean, while I am fairly confident in my spelling, I do know that I do make mistakes. I’m also planning on changing what I send to WordPress, so that WP doesn’t get the header and footer in the post.

Thanks for reading;

–J

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Hopefully a FINAL test of the script

Okay, here’s what I hope is my final attempt at making a script to post to my gemlog, cross it to wordpress, and then go back to the gemlog after manually doing an edit in wordpress.

I say *hopefully*; though I doubt it. I’m likely going to change what I use to edit the gmi-files in the near future, anyway.

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and here, I’ve now edited the post in wordpress, killing the original headers and stuff that got sent in. I should include that in the script, really. I also need to remember to stop using ellipsis in my writing–I keep forgetting that’ll break my gopher server.

Thanks for reading;

–J

Testing my new script for posting to gemini

If all goes well, then this post will be saved in my gemini capsule, update the capsule, create an atom.xml file, and publish a file to wordpress, automagically.

We’ll see if I actually managed to cobble together something that worked…

(…and now with this edit–after changing permissions and ownership of the corresponding gmi file–we’ll see if wp2smol likes me sending it back to gemini)

Thanks for reading;

–J