Now

I haven’t written much in the way of “blog” posts, and for stupid reasons such as technology. It turns out my “primary” computing device, an iPad, doesn’t make it easy to update this site given it’s a set shell scripts, markdown files, and rsync. Luckily, there are a few different fixes:

• Not have a site at all. (Which I’m unlikely to do)
• Stop updating at all. (Which is what I’ve been doing)
• Make git the source of truth and build it from git. (What I should do)

In other news, 2025 came and I have some “Don’t Break the Chain” goals, which has led to me wanting a basic app for tracking this stuff. I already had a need for a little custom tracking app, and I think I can shoehorn “chains” into it easily enough. The only problem is that the app is non-inspiring to write, and I’m too curmudgeonly to let an LLM build it…

Underploy sort of took a back seat in spare time computing projects, and a conversation at work sparked my interest in compiling to Go, again. Long ago, I played with compiling Scheme to Go, and it was too ambitious compared to my interest level. I fear this new idea will have the same fate…

Now-ish

2024 sparked an obsession with linocut. Still hoping to carve and print a Mickey Mouse piece that I drew.

Underploy is going well and I’ve identified a number of ways to meet my goal of really small, but useful as a bootstrapping language. And by bootstrapping, I don’t mean “OS,” I really mean bootstrapping projects written in Underploy that requires only a C compiler, rather than some other interpreted language. My efforts to play around with SML solidified this need.

– Last Update: 2025/01/07