2022-05-10                         from the editor of ~insom
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   I finished writing the thing to generate Gopher and Gemini
   and Finger etc. from one input.

=> https://github.com/insom/pubble
 > Pubble

   I also ported most of my updates from over the pandemic to
   it. I had toyed with bringing in older ~town and insom.me.uk
   updates in here, but they were really geared for the web --
   I have a habit of including inline hyperlinks that I don't
   follow when I'm writing for the small web. Translating from
   one to the other without losing all meaning is hard, so I
   didn't try in the end.

   So far, I am happy with this. I'm not sure what to do with
   insom.me.uk though -- either archive it (again) or just
   leave it alone or what. It's not really a blog; this here is
   more of a journal, so really it's probably just a set of
   webpages about some topics, which doesn't need to be
   organized by date.

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   I went to the local record store after putting off a trip
   for way too long. Picked up a dozen or so more CDs, which I
   am now ripping with Exact Audio Copy.

   It's probably ten years since I ripped a CD (with iTunes)
   and probably 20 years since I ripped it using some
   old-school 90's-esque ripping software. The kind of thing
   with 10,000 options but you need to use an external MP3
   encoder because "patents" (even though those have expired at
   some point over the last decade).

   I also picked up Pod (by Breeders) on vinyl. I could have
   gone with Last Splash, which is the album I had framed over
   my desk at iWeb, but Last Splash is somehow more polished
   and less immediately likeable. Pod is weirdly raw and I
   still enjoy listening to it even though I've been coming
   back to it for more than two decades (over half my life
   etc.)

   There's a discussion on the Orange Site about the iPod
   finally being discontinued by Apple and there's a solid
   segment of people who realise that having everything ever
   available to stream at all times has hurt their connection
   to music. Maybe after the resurgence of vinyl and CDs (and
   tape) we'll settle on just ... buying MP3s again instead of
   renting music.

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   Boy there is a lot of dwelling on the passage of time in my
   recent updates. I know I joke about midlife crisis but it's
   in a ha-ha only-serious way.