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Sitting back, working in BBEdit, with Limechat off to my right on the second
monitor, and listening to my near 7GB of music from Ponies at Dawn[1], and I
feel much better than I did yesterday. I tried moving myself over to my Dell
XPS 410, which runs Windows 7, and it wasn't fun at all.

I'm rather spoiled by MacOS, so going back to Windows 7 would be an exercise
in patience and dealing with crap that I don't want to deal with. Likewise with
going back to Linux-based distros full-time as, despite loving KDE and many
apps on the platform, the upkeep and maintenance would just kill me. I enjoy
having to do nothing more than just keeping my Time Machine drive for backups
attached to the system, rather than dealing with broken-ass updates or messing
with config files that got changed /because/ of updates. (Looking at you,
Windows 10 and Ubuntu.)

Plus, I use an old-enough MacOS that I can easily get awesome software from
places lie Macintosh Garden[2], so that's a major boon for me.

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I noticed something about a Gopher conlang being worked on, as mentioned by
Tomasino[3]. That is awesome, and as someone's who's worked on 2 conlangs, it's
a hell of a thing to go through on your own. However, I highly recommend a
channel on YouTube by Artifexian[4], who has made /many/ videos on
worldbuilding and conlangs, and is currently making his own conlang as well.
He's got plenty of pointers and ideas to keep in mind when working on such a
task, and it's all /well/ worth a watch.

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[1]: https://poniesatdawn.bandcamp.com/
[2]: http://macintoshgarden.org/
[3]: gopher://gopher.black/1/phlog/20190416-gopher-conlang-yes-please
[4]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeh-pJYRZTBJDXMNZeWSUVA