So, aside from the ususal daily routine, do you feel like sharing any interesting recent experience of yours? Some hobby you dedicated to?
Some project you're working onto?
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On 2022-05-11, snowcrash <snowcrash@tilde.pink> wrote:

So, aside from the ususal daily routine, do you feel like sharing any interesting recent experience of yours? Some hobby you dedicated to?
Some project you're working onto?

I've been offline for a few weeks while recovering from an illness.
But i look forward to when i can find the time again to get into a
project headspace.

I have an old laptop running FreeDOS 1.3 and i use list.com as my
pager. My muscle-memory uses the "b" key to go back a page because i
am used to using "less" on *nix. In list.com the "b" key goes to the
bottom of the file, losing my reading position. Very annoying! I
wrote a debug.com "script" to modify list.com and reassign the "b" and
"B" keys to go back a page instead.

I downloaded a sitegrab of recipesource.com (formery known as soar.berkeley.edu), a searchable archive of over 70k recipes mainly
from Usenet. It includes the original .txt files. They are encoded
in many different ways including ASCII, CP437, CP1252, ISO-8859-1,
UTF-8, etc. The recipes are formatted using MasterCook, MealMaster,
and other export formats. I wrote a script to normalize all of the
recipes to UTF-8, parse out the title, and import them into SQLite.
My plan is to export them to a static site in both Gemini and Gopher
format, plus use the SQLite db for a fulltext search. I figured i
could invite people to post new recipes to tilde.food+drink to get
them added into the db.
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On 5/11/2022 3:09 AM, snowcrash wrote:

So, aside from the ususal daily routine, do you feel like sharing any interesting recent experience of yours? Some hobby you dedicated to?
Some project you're working onto?

Working and working! Then relaxing working on old Aurora Plastic Model
Kits and 3D Printing other kits to build. That is how I relax after a
long week. :)

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On 23/05/22 at 01:32, bencollver@tilde.pink <bencollver@tilde.pink> wrote:

I've been offline for a few weeks while recovering from an illness.
But i look forward to when i can find the time again to get into a
project headspace.

Hope this wasn't anything serious and that it didn't cause you more
trouble than you expected. Anyway, gladyou recovered!

pager. My muscle-memory uses the "b" key to go back a page because i
am used to using "less" on *nix. In list.com the "b" key goes to the
bottom of the file, losing my reading position. Very annoying! I
wrote a debug.com "script" to modify list.com and reassign the "b" and
"B" keys to go back a page instead.

Hackish, but intelligently so, just the way I like it. Where can I look
up the source code of list.com?

Speaking of that, I've been packaging some stuff for pkgsrc lately.
One piece of software stands out for being the sort of thing which
tilde users would enjoy.

v6shell, aka etsh [1], an enhanced, backward compatible port of
the historical V6 UNIX shell by Ken Thompson.

Quoting the author:

"Consider trying etsh and tsh for yourself to see that doing more with
less is both possible and beneficial. "

It's available on pkgsrc as wip/etsh, and I successfully build the
package on Slackware 15, Tribblix 0m25 and NetBSD 9.2_STABLE.

I also created a zine with a focus on NetBSD [2]

I'm working on computational neuroanatomy, getting a progressively
better understanding in neuroscience, becoming more proficient with the
tool implied, hsMRI, fMRI, GRE sequences, MATLAB, SPM12. CAT12 toolbok
for SPM is particularly neat [3].

[1] https://etsh.nl/blog/ | gopher://etsh.nl/1/
[2] https://retrobsd.ddns.net
[3] http://www.neuro.uni-jena.de/cat/

I downloaded a sitegrab of recipesource.com (formery known as
soar.berkeley.edu), a searchable archive of over 70k recipes mainly
from Usenet. It includes the original .txt files. They are encoded
in many different ways including ASCII, CP437, CP1252, ISO-8859-1,
UTF-8, etc. The recipes are formatted using MasterCook, MealMaster,
and other export formats. I wrote a script to normalize all of the
recipes to UTF-8, parse out the title, and import them into SQLite.
My plan is to export them to a static site in both Gemini and Gopher
format, plus use the SQLite db for a fulltext search. I figured i
could invite people to post new recipes to tilde.food+drink to get
them added into the db.

Damn, this is an outstanding reference. The sort of thing I always
wished for but never dared to ask, or more likely, the sort of thing I
never realized I wished for until I saw it with my own eyes.
Many thanks! Going to share this site with common friends.
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On 27/05/22 at 18:29, Thumper <pricedonald@caltel.com> wrote:

Working and working! Then relaxing working on old Aurora Plastic Model
Kits and 3D Printing other kits to build. That is how I relax after a
long week. :)

Mmm, model kits are well known for being a very relaxed and relaxing
activity. Something capable of isolatingyour brain completely from the
rest and which give actually something durable/valuable in return.

The father of my ex GF had like 10k euros in model kits. Many rare
limited editions pieces, some with known defects turned into features.
Well he works in a bank as manager, talking about ho to spend money effectively.

I think the only downside of these things is that they take a lot of
free time, but it may just be an impression of mine.
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On 2022-06-24, snowcrash <snowcrash@tilde.pink> wrote:

Hackish, but intelligently so, just the way I like it. Where can I look
up the source code of list.com?

You might have to run list.com through Sourcer to get the source code.
;) You can get my modifications here:

gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/files/dos/util/list/

It is fun to read about your work on etsh. I appreciate the clarity
of much of the code in NetBSD. Less unnecessary stuff is more better.

Thanks for the link to your NetBSD-focussed zine, I will definitely
subscribe to it.

Thanks for the positive feedback on MOAR. :-)

gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/recipes/

-Ben
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