And now for something completely different.

Edit 2: forgot TOC. 11/11/25 14:15
- How I got to thinking about RSS ........................................ [001]
- Formatting notes for new posts ......................................... [002]
- Friendship ended with VIM, now MICROEMACS is my best friend ............ [003]

[001] How I got to thinking about RSS ------------------------------------------
This morning  I went through  a fairly linear series of steps to FINALLY writing
another post.  Wake up  at 06:00 in  a rush thinking "Oh shit,  I didn't  do the
dishes last night" because my dad is making noise downstairs. Literally jump
out  of bed and pull on some pants just to realize  I don't want to be seen with
my hair  in such  a state (I  have long, curly hair and had gone  to bed shortly
after walking home from school and VCing on discord for a bit). Well,  I already
have pants on but  I guess I'll get back in bed for the warmth. Despite my 5950x
heating  up  my room all night mining Monero (thanks  for  the free electricity,
parents!) it's still a little chilly (:P a little chili, mmmm... chili). Time to
clear out the notifications  on  my phone!  A few discord messages, all stuff  I
don't have  to respond to.  The weather, an expected 42Fdeg.  Oh yay!  I have an
update for an F-Droid app.  I'm not sure why, but it always gives me a kick when
I'm reminded that I'm using open source apps on  a device that so strongly tries
suggesting you don't.  Oh it's Feeder,  hmm,  I haven't read halestrom.net  in a
while,  I should check and see if there are any new posts!  Nope, not since 2024
sadly, but  I don't think  I ever finished the Tangara post so I'll read that to
kill the time.  Oh, I forgot I added rubenerd.com to it! Oh wow, I have a lot of
posts  to catch up on.  Guess  I'll start  at the bottom.  (Reads for 40 minutes
straight).  I have got to get back  on my blog.  I've written 1(.5) post(s),
and have mostly just been using the server  for dicking around with coding  on a
chromebook.  Y'know what would be  a cool little thing to have? An RSS feed so I
can proofread my posts, and others can access them more conveniently!
Edit 1: forgot to add, I'm not gonna do this at the time of posting. Probably in
a couple hours after my homework is done.

[002] Formatting notes for new posts -------------------------------------------
This  is also my first post with full justification.  Manual,  as is  everything
else,  but I'm happy with  it so far.  The guidelines,  as I  figured out in the
middle of writing, are something like:  add spaces first between sentence breaks
including commas, then around "I", then "a", then before/after two letter words,
three letter words,  and so on.  Oh, and try to evenly space them all throughout
the sentence so you dont get "a  b  c  d e f g".

[003] Friendship ended with VIM, now MICROEMACS is my best friend --------------
Ah,  one last thing before  I go.  A few months ago  I noticed that  Vim started
advertising for some AI "tool" at the top of their github repository.  I get why
they might need the money,  but I find this unacceptable and started looking for
other editors.  Currently I'm sitting on mg,  OpenBSD's fork of MicroEmacs. It's
quite comfortable, but naturally has taken some getting used to coming from Vim.
It seems to be the most common MicroEmacs distribution available,  which is nice
so that I can use it everywhere. I have made a statically linked version for
Linux just in case, and will probably make it available somewhere on
#/repo.averymt.zip soon.  On some  terminals the Home  key doesn't work.  I have
found a  setting recently that fixes that,  but I plan to patch it into the mg I
build.  I also tried toybox vi  (from #/landley.net/toybox),  unfortunately it's
got a few bugs,  the most glaring of which currently is marking empty, unchanged
buffers as modified.  It's also quite annoying that it redraws the entire screen
on each  key press,  although this  at least doesn't  break functionality,  just
makes it uglier.  Busybox vi is  a similar story,  but broken in different ways, 
and I doubt they are considered bugs.  If I  don't get around to fixing it, I at
least plan on reporting the vi bugs  to the toybox mailing list Soon(tm).  (read
as: in the next few months)

Written 11/11/2025 08:45, edited and published on 11/11/2025 09:10 UTC-5