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how I build my workstation environment.

December 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM

David Emerson

@d.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy

Ok, we're off i3/X now, workstation builds will use sway/wayland from here. In the grand tradition of sharing dotfiles, here's how I provision machines:

https://nnix.com/projects/dotfiles/

dotfiles

January 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM

David Emerson

@d.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy

The rate at which the Haiku (and BeOS before it) interface responds always makes me feel like I've been walking through tar on other operating systems. I'm not sure what it is, why it has always seemed fast, but if you haven't tried Haiku before, you owe it to yourself to do an install and feel […]

January 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM

David Emerson

@d.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy

I owned a MessagePad 2100, an eMate, and an original iPod, and I never realized until now that the original iPod had the same processor as the eMate. This realization, circa 23 January 2025, rekindled a latent memory that my eMate was always so much slower feeling than my MP2100. Is any of this […]

January 24, 2025 at 2:36 AM

David Emerson

@d.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy

This blog post is old, but remains so relevant I bothered to find it again today, fresh off a move from i3 > sway, having fought more demons than I needed to fight to receive no incremental functionality.

https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/wayland-2021.html

"But the Linux desktop as a whole […]

January 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM

David Emerson

@d.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy

Ok, so I wrote a bunch of go to make riverrun work right, and it does, almost. But Icecast won, so then I pivoted hard into Icecast orchestration, and the repo went from go to shell. Just have to make the ices2 stream service pull from the proper directory and then we'll have something we can […]

Solene'% : Introduction to GrapheneOS

January 21, 2025 at 4:02 AM

Reposted by David Emerson

jae

@jkap.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy

WBUG

January 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM

David Emerson

@d.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy

@solene awesome intro, I wish I'd had this when I started using GrapheneOS https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2025-01-12-intro-to-grapheneos.html

In this blog post, you will learn about the security oriented smartphone operating system GrapheneOS

dataswamp.org

January 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM

David Emerson

@d.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy

Typesetting is up to the plays now, the worst thing to typeset in this whole book, but it's been a fun experience so far. Lugones will have his day in English soon.

https://nnix.com/projects/lunario-sentimental/

Lunario sentimental

an English translation of the Lugones work.

an infinite community stream.

January 16, 2025 at 3:11 AM

David Emerson

@d.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy

future merveilles radio station, one day

https://nnix.com/projects/riverrun/

riverrun

GitHub - davidemerson/drama: DRAMA FINDS YOU (find open printers on your network, have fun)

January 16, 2025 at 3:10 AM

Reposted by David Emerson

R E K

@rek.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy

The two drawings that I made to decorate the documentation page for Tote (Devine's rewriting playground).

https://100r.co/site/tote.html

A drawing of a common merganser with a tote bag hanging around her neck. The merganser is wide-eyed, with a serious expression. A drawing of a sort of backwards S terminated by 2 points is on the front of the tote bag.

A drawing of a two-headed serpent-like creature. The top head is fish-like, the bottom one is parrot-like.

January 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM

David Emerson

@d.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy

It's boring to just scan for open queues on your network. Give the people something to do while you're at it. This follows up a scan with a one- or two-page print job meant to be dramatically re-enacted, by passers by. https://github.com/davidemerson/drama

DRAMA FINDS YOU (find open printers on your network, have fun) - davidemerson/drama

github.com

January 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM

David Emerson

@d.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy

Decent amount of strain on that urethane fold there @changbai, but within limits of the material ... I need to quit before I start simulating the strain on laces sewn through the holes too.

a rendering depicting the strain of folding upon a urethane membrane which has been folded into a wallet

a rendering of a wallet folded from simulated urethane material in solidworks

January 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM

David Emerson

@d.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy

Can't even make a wallet nowadays without finite element analysis. At least I know how it folds, in urethane or vegan leather.

https://nnix.com/projects/wallet/

wallet

hold cards.

the things I do to stay on track.

January 14, 2025 at 2:31 AM

David Emerson

@d.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy

As if we needed more reasons to buy used books when you do buy physical books, yet another is the lagniappe. My 3rd Edition of "The Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs" came with this class photo in it as a bookmark, dated on the back "1950" but without […]

[Original post on merveilles.town]

A monochrome photo of children, perhaps a school class photo, unknown origin.

January 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM

David Emerson

@d.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy

This is a wild, amazing ligature. We will be employing it with abandon.

A ligature on a Q which reaches clear halfway across the word "Quijote", merging with the descending J"

January 11, 2025 at 4:18 AM

David Emerson

@d.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy

Finished my annual organization routine and updated my docs. If you want productivity and org inspo, it's here, for my reference as much as anyone's: https://nnix.com/projects/org/

org

the only way is to build your own.

January 11, 2025 at 4:16 AM

David Emerson

@d.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy

It's build day for the cart! https://nnix.com/projects/welding-cart/ #theWorkshop

welding cart

novo nilbud by swamplight: coal’s short but we got plenty of bog in the yard

January 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM

David Emerson

@d.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy

Does anyone know a decent quality print on demand service I can use to publish a translation I'm working on? I know Amazon KDP, and I've looked at IngramSpark. I am not impressed with the hardback quality for either. Does anyone do cloth bound, something simple with a foil stamped spine?

December 31, 2024 at 3:08 AM

David Emerson

@d.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy

Finally got my reading site built out. I sacrificed a long history in storygraph, but sometimes a reset is for the better. This list goes back to about 2021, at least, and it's more fun to own your own reading notes than to have them sequestered in a third party database.

https://nnix.com/reading/

reading