- Last month I demonstrated the ability to build Nintendo 64 ROMs with Zig¹, making some headway on Zig-native APIs for interfacing with the N64's memory-mapped hardware. Taking a break for a moment; will probably resume when Zig 0.14 drops (within a couple months IIRC). Next planned milestone will be to implement interrupt handlers.
- Gradually migrating my code repos from Git to Fossil (with plans to continue to mirror to Git). Experimenting with bidirectional syncs in order to preserve the ability to handle merge/pull requests from the various Git repo hosts on which I syndicate my repos. The above Zig64 project will probably be the first real guinea pig.
- Migrating my personal website away from Jekyll has been an ongoing project (going on almost a year now) with multiple parallel efforts: using Fossil's wiki features², using Scroll, and (most recently) using Typst's newly-announced HTML export feature. All three approaches have their pros and cons.
- I've been tinkering with my PowerBook G4; recently swapped in an SSD (using an mSATA→PATA enclosure) and installed the latest OpenBSD (with all partitions except for '/' encrypted; working on documenting that process and the associated kinks - and possibly turning said documentation into installer and initscript patches so that hardware platforms like macppc that lack support for encrypting '/' can still enjoy not-quite-full-disk encryption). Next on the list is rebuilding the battery.
- That PowerBook is also the only working machine I have that has an optical drive, so as soon as it was consistently booting right, I took the opportunity to back up the stack of burned CDs/DVDs I'd accumulated throughout my lifetime.
- I have a bunch of my dad's old photos and schoolwork and such that I've been meaning to digitize and organize.
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