2021-10-06                         from the editor of ~insom
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   I started keeping a journal on paper, in a little notebook,
   written with a fountain pen. I think that's contributed to
   me updating this place a little less, although tbh the paper
   journal is usually literally a few words about my day- films
   watched, meals cooked, etc.

   You're not missing anything.

   Current obsessions: due to reading Showstopper! I'm kind of
   interested in Windows programming and vintage Windows. I was
   such a Unix nerd and anti-micro$oft (lol) from so young that
   I think I really passed over some things which are actually
   great in Windows NT based operating systems.

   I put Windows 11 on a machine today, but I had to override
   the TPM check. I previously had it on a Raspberry Pi 4 and
   that lines up with my other current obsession: becoming
   familiar with AArch64 (i.e. ARMv8).

   I think that ARM is likely to become one of (if not "the")
   dominant ISAs in server-side computing, like it already has
   done in mobile and is starting to in Macbooks and
   Chromebooks.

   I haven't reached for `gdb` to do my job lately (maybe in
   years) but I have been that person in the past and I think
   I'd still like to be able to be that person in the future;
   after the total dominance of x86_64 is usurped.

   What else? Well I got a small cheap CNC and I'm having fun
   with that because it seems lower stakes than using my big
   CNC (which I am now selling).

   I am continuing to improve at manual machining. It's the art
   of compromise a lot of the time -- how will I hold this
   piece (safely and accurately), how will I mount this tool
   etc.

   I recently knurled some brass, made a fancy thumb-nut for
   use joining two pieces of metal temporarily and I made
   collet block (which is bad) -- and I used the collet block
   to make a hex wrench (which is worse).