Thanks for asking!

I work on a variety of projects. Most are in Go, but I could have used Rust if I liked it more; they both tend to compile statically linked stand alone executables.

Most relevant to the discussion is Claptrap, a flags library for Go that has no external dependencies and could be imported into a project my copying one file and changing the package. I deal with added functionality with additional, optional, packages that can be imported to add features like conf file support, env var support, man page generation, pretty printing, etc. Each package used adds another dependency, but they're each optional and relatively small, readable (I hope!) and auditable. I wrote Claptrap after changing flags libraries something like 5 times with each new project because there was something I didn't like about the last one I tried. I even did an analysis of dependencies and code complexity on about two dozen different popular options.

Then there are a bunch of little tools I use daily. One's Legume, which is a distributed ticket tracker based on code comments. No external db, no external service, relies entirely on standard code commenting conventions developers have been using for decades. Again, single executable, and it's pretty fast. It's not the first such tool, but I think it's the best.

I have several other little tools I use daily. I have what I think is a really nice set of scripts and zsh functions based around todo.txt files. The main one is tdp, which provides a bunch of functions for doing executive lists, accessing special todo files more easily, and interacting with then through fzf; that may be the set of tools I use the most throughout the day, but it's not really packaged for release or especially well documented. I rely heavily on todo.txt.

I wrote a keep-a-changelog generator for Mercurial projects. It's not as fancy as git-cliff, but it does the job.

I'm the maintainer for gotop since the original author abandoned Go for Rust. I've not been spending a lot of time on it because it needs a refractor and I haven't found the energy for it, and there are so many good alternatives. That project is all dependencies, so nothing minimal about that.

There's a really rough TUI SMS chat app I'm writing called dsms, because I hate communicating on phones. It relies on two programs to be running on your Android phone, because there's no app that both forwards SMSes and allows sending through an API call, so it's kind of a pain and nowhere near ready for primetime.

And I recently wrote a CLI tool called dvalv for encoding and decoding files encrypted with the Android app Valv (which I _didn't_write), so if you SyncThing your Valv directory to your desktop, you can decrypt and access your files there.

And I have a really obtuse, byzantine set of tools for taking a resume.json file and generating Word, ODT, HTML, Markdown, and pdf (via Typst) output, via a couple of different templates. The projects unimaginatively called "resume". That's entirely for myself, but it someone wants to use it, I'd be happy to walk them through the process of getting everything set up to do so. It uses a couple of very nice templates that I patterned after a couple of professional career councilors. The repos isn't up to date; I need to push some changes, but since I'm positive I'm the only user I haven't made it a priority.

A tool I'm extremely happy with and use maybe even more than tdp is rook. This one I did announce on Lemmy. It's a sort of headless secret store backed by a KeePass DB, and it's one of the most useful tools I've written recently. Rook's in both AUR and Alpine testing.

There's a little busybox-compatible Lua script for DD-WRT routers that'll shuffle and pick a VPN exit node from ones stored in the router; I use it to hop my exit node once or twice a day via a cron job. I use Mullvad and there script might have some assumptions built-in that won't work for non-Mullvad accounts, but it's not exactly rocket science.

I forked a lightweight, pure-Go DB project and did some substantial modification, and called it leaf. These sorts of DBs are a dime a dozen, but this fit my needs, which included being usable on programs cross-compiled for mobile devices.

What's taking all my time lately, though, isn't my project. I've been doing a lot of work on stmps, which is a hard fork of stmp, which is a Subsonic TUI client. I'm doing things like adding album art and synchronized lyrics support, bug fixes, and so on. My dev branch there is called "xxxserxxx".

All of these are actively developed, if not necessarily getting a lot of commits. I fix bugs as reported, and make improvements as needed.

Here's a full list; nearly all my projects are on Sourcehut.

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Interestingly enough the one with the wind is based on a dream I had. It may be why it came out so vivid.

The hardest part is starting my dude! I highly recommend trying to grow at least once. It's a lot of time and effort to grow it, harvest it, turn it to bubble hash, and then press it into rosin, but I find it very rewarding, especially now that I'm making decent product. You can also apply a lot of what you lean growing cannabis towards growing food crops like tomatoes and corn.

Just for context, minetest was recently renamed to Luanti, which is why the website url and downloads say that.

Thanks! They're the twins of the one I just spruced up. The gray one is bare aluminum with oak spacers. Construction wise, it ended up looking a LOT like Matt3o's BrownFox from like ten years earlier. No surprise, I suspect. The Swill plate generator I used was likely borne out of people wanting to do similar projects. It has Box Navy switches combined with Vortex-designed VSA keycaps that you can find mislabeled all over ebay/AliExpress/etc. as "double shot DSA", except for the BBC Micro inspired F row, with is just 12 red DSA blanks and one that I lasered a design onto. ::: spoiler pic

The yellow one has "Fauxly Panda" no-name heavy tactiles from Aliexpress, a 3-D printed case and feet, Akko "SA-L" keycaps, and a design (very) loosely inspired by the later Atari 8-bits. The color scheme is meant to sort of vaguely evoke the original 400 and 800. I am really pleased with this layout, which is just a TKL with the F-row shoved over, a few missing keys above the nav cluster, the Shifts split in two, and the modifiers shrunk down and reduced to give that "dangling spacebar" look so many old keyboards have. Only thing I'd do different is not split the left Shift. I just never got used to having two keys there, so all three boards now just map shift to both keys.
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This has been an immensely fun hobby, and I've probably done a dozen projects by now, though I've probably topped out how refined my designs can be and still be fabbed on a 5W diode laser and an Ender 3 clone. Last project before the solenoid and aesthetic retrofit was my goofy no-stabilizers Battlecruiser, which I'm currently using for work.

This is my thesis as to why the Brazilian Electronic voting machines are fairly safe from hacking and vote manipulation. We have never seen one running Doom in the wild.

Voting machine wikipedia

Ginger Chicken

Preparing

Cut some chicken up into strips a bit under 1cm (0.4in) thick and against the grain if using beast (more of a thigh guy myself).

Put chicken in bowl and wet chicken with equal parts rice vinegar and soy sauce. I used around 1.5 (22.5ml) tablespoon rice vinegar and 1.5 (22.5ml) tablespoon soy sauce for around 0.6kg (1.3lb) of chicken. Hand mix the chicken until the vinegar and soy sauce are worked in.

After around 5-7 minutes, the chicken should soak up the vinegar and soy sauce and leave little to no liquids.

Add in about 1.5 tablespoon (22.5ml) of shaoxing wine and enough corn starch to turn the liquid into a thick-ish white liquid but not enough to dry it out. It should have roughly the same consistency of an egg white. Once it's hand mixed, put in some black pepper and sprinkle a little bit of MSG if you have any and mix it again. For pepper I put in around 1 tablespoon (15ml). For MSG, I used what I could grab with my fingers which would be like 1-2g.

After doing that, chop up a sweet onion into crescent moon shaped slices and set it aside.

Let the chicken marinate for about 30 minutes.

Prepare the sauce

Go in with the mindset of making teriyaki sauce.

Mix together:

• 5 tablespoons (60ml) of soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons (30ml) of brown sugar
• Three microplaned garlic cloves (~1 tablespoon, 15ml)
• 2 tablespoons (30ml) mirin

At the end, fuck up and add 1 tablespoon (15ml) of ginger powder instead of the 1 teaspoon (5ml) you were supposed to add.

Now you have ginger sauce.

Cooking

Get large carbon steel or cast iron pan (stainless might work but I've never tried it since I don't have any. Non-stick will not work) and fill it so there's about 2mm of vegetable oil in the pan. Pre-heat at low-medium heat.

Before putting in chicken, coat the chicken in a layer of corn starch, kinda like breading it. It should feel dry and not sticky after coating.

Prepare about 1 tablespoon (15ml) of butter in a spoon (or butter knife or whatever, you'll be quickly throwing it into the pan while cooking) and have a clean plate large enough to hold the cooked chicken ready.

Pre-heat until oil is just starting to emit thin wisps of smoke then turn heat to medium high the dump chicken in the pan and keep it moving until the outside is browned then throw in the butter and stir until the butter evenly coats the chicken and then cook it for about 20-30 seconds more while constantly stirring it.

Remove the chicken and put it on a plate using a slotted spatula to limit the amount of leftover oil and butter from soaking into the chicken and making it soggy.

Put in sliced onions and stir fry until decently and evenly browned but not charred.

Turn heat to medium, add back in the chicken, then pour in the sauce and keep mixing until the sauce thickens and sticks and soaks into the crust of the chicken.

Best enjoyed with some fried eggs and rice.

Hooray! I hope you like it. :)

Thx for the support. I keep dropping the link anywhere thats vaguely relevent lol.