the foghorn // initial commit
Well, here we are.
It's come to this.
Hopefully the foghorn will show itself useful and stick around.
I've written a short post about this letter here.
Low-tech, (sorta maybe) decentralized, what's not to love? Disconnection has been on the mind lately, cauterized this week by my identity having been stolen. Despite best efforts to protect my personal information, I now have to file fraud alerts annually until the heat death of the universe. Why is it so easy to find SSN's and why are they used for literally anything important?
It's important to consider what we own, what we think we own, and how self-identity (or literal identity) can be tied to material possessions or our unique ideas. Further, to consider where our energy is spent, and our ideation is directed on-line when everything is behind a Terms of Service Agreement. Allow me to don my tinfoil hat, but I think it's notable that: This newsletter will not siphon your thoughts to sell you tchotchkes, this newsletter will not influence your decision making, this newsletter will not manipulate you into someone else's lifestyle, or take your ideas and turn them into products. It will not categorize the subscribers into little bins or share your personal information. This newsletter may try to get you to hang out with me.
I will do my best to avoid it turning into a Cycling-Advocacy- Hermit-Club.
Probably the easiest way to murder someone you don’t like would be to buy them tickets to a duck bus - me
the easiest way to murder someone is to get them to ride a bike share in Houston - davey
Registration for L'Étape San Antonio opened this past week, and I would like to register for the 60 mile race. This is a horrible idea.
Here are some things I've been working on:
Howler is a VoIP application I've been co-developing in Rust with Brad Lugo to replace my Discord usage, when that repository becomes public I can link commits there. For now, I can just talk about what I've done. This week was mostly janitorial. New commit conventions were adopted to smooth out our standards, and I got preliminary Continuous Integration (CI) functioning using Github Actions, such that a pipeline actually builds both the client and server applications. Where do the binaries go, and what do we do with them from here? Those are problems for future me. For now, build cleanliness and consistency are the focus so that deploying releases will be easier. Brad's probably rolling his eyes reading this.
To support my tea habit, I ordered a gaiwan + 2 teacups, and promptly torpedoed it against my desk chair. What this means is I have an excellent opportunity to kintsugi[金継ぎ] said teacup. Pictured above is my progress after making the initial repairs and cleaning up the excess adhesive materials. Next, the chipped edge will need to be fixed with an epoxy putty, and left to cure for around a week, after which gold powder can be applied to highlight the repair.
I'm taking time to get comfortable with piano again, this week's piece was Philip Glass's Opening from Glassworks.
I also washed my bike.
Links to fun things:
Here are some things I enjoyed reading this week:
Please have a good week, friends.