• It's fall now in this hemisphere, and that means that game companies are releasing a bunch of stuff I'll never have time to play in hopes that they can sell a bunch of copies before the holidays. I've already fallen victim to this and bought some things. I've updated the appropriate inventories
• I mentioned last time how I was using social media less as time goes on. I hit on the idea of using RSS feeds as a kind of (extremely) limited social network. I also started reading a Python book because lots of people imply that I should do that since I'm in relatively constant contact with computers and I don't really do much programming. I wrote a blog post about it and I put up the script on Github. You probably shouldn't use the script or Github, but if you considered using an rss file as a social network presence, I wouldn't complain.

• I finally remembered the password to update my site^*

  ^*Actually, I knew it all along

• I spent a lot of time this summer scouring yard sales and thrift stores looking for games that I could play in DOSBox and/or SCUMMVM, since I missed out on a lot of those games in their heyday and if you can find them now, they're pretty cheap. This topic probably needs a real article written about it, but until then I did add a SCUMMVM inventory page so I can keep track of what I've found.

• Even though I mentioned that I installed snac in the last update, I find that I'm using it less and less, and I think that's because I'm using social media less as time goes on. This isn't slighting snac, I think it works well, I just find social media exhausting, and updating my own website is more fun anyway.

• I've spent some time trying to set up and use notmuch for checking email. I got the basics working, but it provides no way to delete anything because 'disk space is cheap'. I also have a small email hoarding problem, so I can appreciate that sentiment, but my email addresses exists on the Internet. Even I have no desire to keep every ad for knockoff sunglasses, every 2FA single-use passcode, every notification that I rebooted a server, or test emails I sent to myself to make sure that I didn't break something again.

  Maybe I'm overthinking this. I've had to support people who have six digits of unread emails in their inboxes (I didn't even know that the little red bubble on the iPhone could show that many digits). Maybe keeping a tidy inbox is overrated

• I've decided to temporarily remove the audio logs and the vlogs from the site. This is for three reasons:

  1. The file sizes are huge, and I want to find a better place to host them
  2. I've neglected the logs for too long and I kind of want a fresh start
  3. I want to do something a little better than me rambling unscripted and unedited into a camera/mic while I'm doing something else

• I've moved my fediverse presence from Pleroma to snac (and changed domains, too). I have nothing in particular against Pleroma, but even as a small, stripped down fediverse server it was a lot more than I needed, especially for an instance with one user. A lot of fediverse servers are trying to replicate twitter, and trying to get away from twitter to go to a twitter clone is silly. I have a blog post half-written announcing that I was going to leave social networking completely, but snac changed my mind for now. The experience it provides is less annoying than twitter clones, so I'll stick around for now.

Github has a lot of issues. I'm not throwing stones here, I genuinely have no idea what it takes to manage a site of that size and complexity. During one of their recent outages I registered gitflub.com and just pointed it to Github's status page so that any time I want to check if Github is having an issue, I can type 'gitflub' into my browser and see.

And since I had Github on the brain, I decided to register an account and put up some of the XML and XSLT that powers this site. I even added comments to most of the files.