It's been a couple of years since this page has been updated. It has
received a cleanup---removing information that I find to be unnecessary
or redundant---and some minor updates.
Note that the removed phone number has not been in use for at least a
couple of years; I apologize for anyone who may have tried to reach me,
however unlikely that is. I am not replacing it with a working number,
since I don't want unsolicited calls.
I decided to update all of this in a single commit rather than
commenting on and rationalizing each individual change.
This network-level concern is not appropriate for this repository.
When I originally added it, my thought was that I'd be helping to
protect the privacy of people who cloned the repository. But that
responsibility does not belong here.
I don't need to proxy through Tor anymore through software, as I have
since handled privacy-related networking concerns elsewhere (whether it
be at the router or host OS level).
This removes the cgit configuration and added redirects. I'll check the
404 log and determine if I should add others in the future, if it's
worth the effort.
I've been essentially inactive publicly for a couple of years. I'll
have more information in time, but the past couple of years have given
me a lot of time to reflect and redefine parts of myself.
This is step toward surfacing.
Mastodon was far too much load on my server. And while the sever is
just a dinky like 1-vCPU VPS, it shouldn't _need_ any more than that; I
barely use Mastodon and I will not upgrade my server (and incur greater
costs for it).
Pleroma is compatible with Mastodon (based on ActivityPub) and much more
efficient. We'll see how I like it. My account transfer is happening
right now; the fediverse is a wonderful thing. :)
For some more context: Mastodon was fine for years, but after Musk's
takeover of Twitter and increased adoption of Mastodon, my sever became
burdened by all these new instances, despite _my_ use of it being
effectively nothing.
This notably introduces The TAME Programming Language Living Document,
and effort to begin to formalize the language I've been working on over
the past decade on-and-off for my employer.
It's pronounced "new"plot, where "gnu" refers to the animal, pronounce
"new", not GNU, pronounced "guh-new".
I did not know this at the time.
http://www.gnuplot.info/faq/faq.html#x1-70001.2
Older versions of Gawk did not mind an empty string as the third
argument, but newer versions complain:
warning: gensub: third argument `' treated as 1
Figures will have margins on the left and right sides by default, unless
explicitly denoted "inline". The caption will also be a lighter typeface
rather than bold. When the figure caption appears at the bottom, it will
have a top border.
I'll be using this to show example HTML code and then output it as actual
HTML to be rendered as part of the article. Otherwise the HMTL has to be
duplicated and maintained in multiple places.
An alternative is to include a file, but that is much less convenient for
smaller snippets.
I hate Markdown as a format for disciplined writing, especially when I want
macros (mostly semantic), indexes, and such. I was originally going to use
LaTeX with Pandoc, but it lacks support for inline HTML and such, and I do
not want to distract too much from the work that I want to be doing.
Over the past year, my GNU Social timeline has gone almost completely
silent; it seems that many people have moved to Mastodon and maybe those
instances have stopped federating.
Further, GNU Social development has been stalled for a long time.
So this seems like an inevitable decision to give Mastodon a try. I'll
start by following people and will post both on here and GNU Social
initially. See https://social.mikegerwitz.com.
This better describes my experience and responsibilities, though I have
never been particularly comfortable with the term. My manager describes me
as an engineer in my current position anyway.
I do not have time to update the features that do not work without JS,
though admittedly they have done a good job of providing fallbacks to
some of the things that are listed here.
Mike Gerwitz