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site/2024.html

@@ -10,8 +10,18 @@
 <h3>18W</h3>
 <article>
 	<h2>2024-11-06</h2>
-	<p>October came and went, ideas piled up in notebooks, but I kept on drawing. I knew already by the time had finished with the <a href='pocket_rewriting.html'>Pocket Rewriting</a> zine that I would make a dynamic implementation of it which, by the way, was very well received despite my not having even had a chance of giving away a single one, for folks printed their own and that delighted me.</p>
-	<p>The past two weeks since the release of the zine are a throwback to the <a href='orca.html'>Orca</a> launch, where the less <i>programmatically inclined</i> started exploring right away, those with preconceptions about what programming is, what it should look and work like found this booklet remains near undecipherable. I think I can help bridge that gap, maybe.</p>
+	<p>October came and went, ideas piled up in notebooks, but I kept on drawing. I
+knew already by the time I had finished the <a
+href='pocket_rewriting.html'>Pocket Rewriting</a> zine that I would make a
+dynamic implementation of it which, by the way, was very well received despite
+my not having even had a chance of giving away a single one. I was delighted to
+see folks print their own copies.</p>
+	<p>These past two weeks have been a throwback to the release of <a
+href='orca.html'>Orca</a>, where the less <i>programmatically inclined</i>
+started exploring right away, and those with preconceptions about what
+programming is, what it should look and work like, found it inscrutable and
+opaque. To some, the booklet remains near undecipherable. I think I can help
+bridge that gap.</p>
 	<ul>
 		<li>Finished <a href='journal.html'>Drawtober</a>.</li>
 		<li>Released some <a href='aliceffekt.html'>new music</a>.</li>
@@ -315,10 +325,10 @@ <h3>18I</h3>
 	<h2>2024-04-27 String rewrite III</h2>
 	<p>We've stowed away our 120v devices, untied the lines and begun our sail north
 to <a href='alaska.html'>Alaska</a>! During the next few days, we will sail
-through the inside passage and out the northern tip of Vancouver Island. As we hop between anchorages, I wonder if a
-<a href='thuesday.html'>graphical environment</a> running on a naive <a
-href='rewriting.html'>string rewriting</a> computer possible, or even
-usable?</p>
+through the inside passage and out the northern tip of Vancouver Island. As we
+hop between anchorages, I wonder if a <a href='thuesday.html'>graphical
+environment</a> running on a naive <a href='rewriting.html'>string
+rewriting</a> computer possible, or even usable?</p>
 	<ul>
 		<li>Started work on <a href='https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/thuesday' target='_blank'>Thuesday</a>.</li>
 		<li>Enjoying Rek's reading of Andy Weir's <a href='reading.html'>The Martian</a> to me at night.</li>
@@ -354,8 +364,18 @@ <h2>2024-04-13 String rewrite II</h2>
 <h3>18G</h3>
 <article>
 	<h2>2024-04-02 String rewrite I</h2>
-	<p>We are waiting for a few parts that we had machined, to return to us from the local fabricator. While we wait, I spend most of time playing with esolangs, one that has especially interested me lately is <a href='modal.html'>Modal</a>, which is a simple string-rewriting scheme similar to <a href='thue'>Thue</a>, but with the added feature that it allows for variables, and recognizes scope delimiters. It's a brutally simple idea that allows a program to be shaped as to mimic nearly any programing paradigm.</p>
-	<p>I had been reticent to expanding the <a href='uxntal_macros.html'>Uxntal macro</a> system because of how it creates disjointed fragments of code that couldn't be properly optimized, but after talking to people writing programs in which macros were definitely the right tool for the task, I've decided to rewrite the implementation and make them more robust. </p>
+	<p>We are waiting for a few parts that we had machined, to return to us from the
+local fabricator. While we wait, I spend most of time playing with esolangs,
+one that has especially interested me lately is <a href='modal.html'>Modal</a>,
+which is a simple string-rewriting scheme similar to <a href='thue'>Thue</a>,
+but with the added feature that it allows for variables, and recognizes scope
+delimiters. It's a brutally simple idea that allows a program to be shaped as
+to mimic nearly any programing paradigm.</p>
+	<p>I had been reticent to expanding the <a href='uxntal_macros.html'>Uxntal
+macro</a> system because of how it creates disjointed fragments of code that
+couldn't be properly optimized, but after talking to people writing programs in
+which macros were definitely the right tool for the task, I've decided to
+rewrite the implementation and make them more robust. </p>
 	<ul>
 		<li>Made a <a href='https://github.com/neauoire/uxn-docker' target='_blank'>Uxn bot</a>, for the <a href='https://discord.gg/vn4EgHqExX' target='_blank'>Concatenative Discord</a>.</li>
 		<li>Implemented some of <a href='forth.html#minforth'>Mikael Patel's minforth</a> primitives.</li>
@@ -369,12 +389,12 @@ <h3>18F</h3>
 <article>
 	<h2>2024-03-21 Catlangs</h2>
 	<p>As days are getting warmer, we can begin to tackle some much needed
-maintenance topside like changing old lines, varnishing the oars and
-inspecting the rigging. After a whole winter of getting up in the dark to do
-weight training, I feel it was well worth it as my back pain is
-gone, I sleep better and feel more overall physically capable. I have a month
-left of gym membership and plan to make use of it as much as I physically can
-before its expiration, and our casting off.</p>
+maintenance topside like changing old lines, varnishing the oars and inspecting
+the rigging. After a whole winter of getting up in the dark to do weight
+training, I feel it was well worth it as my back pain is gone, I sleep better
+and feel more overall physically capable. I have a month left of gym membership
+and plan to make use of it as much as I physically can before its expiration,
+and our casting off.</p>
 	<p>I've spend the idle hours of these past few days improving <a
 href='left.html'>Left</a>, thinking about <a
 href='concatenative.html'>concatenative programming</a> and trying to better
@@ -439,10 +459,11 @@ <h2>2024-02-25 Hello, Dot?</h2>
 <h3>18C</h3>
 <article>
 	<h2>2024-02-11 Conlang Weekly</h2>
-	<p>Other than <a href='https://100r.co/site/boat_projects.html' target='_blank'>doing improvements aboard</a>, it has been a month of playing with conlangs and conscripts. I begun
-exploring <a href='utf8.html'>variable length glyphs</a> in <a
-href='left.html'>Left</a> after adding support for the Lambda(λ) character
-last month, and went further still by supporting the <a
+	<p>Other than <a href='https://100r.co/site/boat_projects.html'
+target='_blank'>doing improvements aboard</a>, it has been a month of playing
+with conlangs and conscripts. I begun exploring <a href='utf8.html'>variable
+length glyphs</a> in <a href='left.html'>Left</a> after adding support for the
+Lambda(λ) character last month, and went further still by supporting the <a
 href='shavian.html'>Shavian alphabet</a>. I had been looking for an alternative
 alphabet for a while and loved its 48 letters, the symmetries in the glyphs and
 how easy it was to <a href='https://shavian.school' target='_blank'>learn

site/now.html

@@ -26,8 +26,18 @@ <h2>2024</h2>
 <h3>18W</h3>
 <article>
 	<h2>2024-11-06</h2>
-	<p>October came and went, ideas piled up in notebooks, but I kept on drawing. I knew already by the time had finished with the <a href='pocket_rewriting.html'>Pocket Rewriting</a> zine that I would make a dynamic implementation of it which, by the way, was very well received despite my not having even had a chance of giving away a single one, for folks printed their own and that delighted me.</p>
-	<p>The past two weeks since the release of the zine are a throwback to the <a href='orca.html'>Orca</a> launch, where the less <i>programmatically inclined</i> started exploring right away, those with preconceptions about what programming is, what it should look and work like found this booklet remains near undecipherable. I think I can help bridge that gap, maybe.</p>
+	<p>October came and went, ideas piled up in notebooks, but I kept on drawing. I
+knew already by the time I had finished the <a
+href='pocket_rewriting.html'>Pocket Rewriting</a> zine that I would make a
+dynamic implementation of it which, by the way, was very well received despite
+my not having even had a chance of giving away a single one. I was delighted to
+see folks print their own copies.</p>
+	<p>These past two weeks have been a throwback to the release of <a
+href='orca.html'>Orca</a>, where the less <i>programmatically inclined</i>
+started exploring right away, and those with preconceptions about what
+programming is, what it should look and work like, found it inscrutable and
+opaque. To some, the booklet remains near undecipherable. I think I can help
+bridge that gap.</p>
 	<ul>
 		<li>Finished <a href='journal.html'>Drawtober</a>.</li>
 		<li>Released some <a href='aliceffekt.html'>new music</a>.</li>
@@ -331,10 +341,10 @@ <h3>18I</h3>
 	<h2>2024-04-27 String rewrite III</h2>
 	<p>We've stowed away our 120v devices, untied the lines and begun our sail north
 to <a href='alaska.html'>Alaska</a>! During the next few days, we will sail
-through the inside passage and out the northern tip of Vancouver Island. As we hop between anchorages, I wonder if a
-<a href='thuesday.html'>graphical environment</a> running on a naive <a
-href='rewriting.html'>string rewriting</a> computer possible, or even
-usable?</p>
+through the inside passage and out the northern tip of Vancouver Island. As we
+hop between anchorages, I wonder if a <a href='thuesday.html'>graphical
+environment</a> running on a naive <a href='rewriting.html'>string
+rewriting</a> computer possible, or even usable?</p>
 	<ul>
 		<li>Started work on <a href='https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/thuesday' target='_blank'>Thuesday</a>.</li>
 		<li>Enjoying Rek's reading of Andy Weir's <a href='reading.html'>The Martian</a> to me at night.</li>
@@ -370,8 +380,18 @@ <h2>2024-04-13 String rewrite II</h2>
 <h3>18G</h3>
 <article>
 	<h2>2024-04-02 String rewrite I</h2>
-	<p>We are waiting for a few parts that we had machined, to return to us from the local fabricator. While we wait, I spend most of time playing with esolangs, one that has especially interested me lately is <a href='modal.html'>Modal</a>, which is a simple string-rewriting scheme similar to <a href='thue'>Thue</a>, but with the added feature that it allows for variables, and recognizes scope delimiters. It's a brutally simple idea that allows a program to be shaped as to mimic nearly any programing paradigm.</p>
-	<p>I had been reticent to expanding the <a href='uxntal_macros.html'>Uxntal macro</a> system because of how it creates disjointed fragments of code that couldn't be properly optimized, but after talking to people writing programs in which macros were definitely the right tool for the task, I've decided to rewrite the implementation and make them more robust. </p>
+	<p>We are waiting for a few parts that we had machined, to return to us from the
+local fabricator. While we wait, I spend most of time playing with esolangs,
+one that has especially interested me lately is <a href='modal.html'>Modal</a>,
+which is a simple string-rewriting scheme similar to <a href='thue'>Thue</a>,
+but with the added feature that it allows for variables, and recognizes scope
+delimiters. It's a brutally simple idea that allows a program to be shaped as
+to mimic nearly any programing paradigm.</p>
+	<p>I had been reticent to expanding the <a href='uxntal_macros.html'>Uxntal
+macro</a> system because of how it creates disjointed fragments of code that
+couldn't be properly optimized, but after talking to people writing programs in
+which macros were definitely the right tool for the task, I've decided to
+rewrite the implementation and make them more robust. </p>
 	<ul>
 		<li>Made a <a href='https://github.com/neauoire/uxn-docker' target='_blank'>Uxn bot</a>, for the <a href='https://discord.gg/vn4EgHqExX' target='_blank'>Concatenative Discord</a>.</li>
 		<li>Implemented some of <a href='forth.html#minforth'>Mikael Patel's minforth</a> primitives.</li>
@@ -385,12 +405,12 @@ <h3>18F</h3>
 <article>
 	<h2>2024-03-21 Catlangs</h2>
 	<p>As days are getting warmer, we can begin to tackle some much needed
-maintenance topside like changing old lines, varnishing the oars and
-inspecting the rigging. After a whole winter of getting up in the dark to do
-weight training, I feel it was well worth it as my back pain is
-gone, I sleep better and feel more overall physically capable. I have a month
-left of gym membership and plan to make use of it as much as I physically can
-before its expiration, and our casting off.</p>
+maintenance topside like changing old lines, varnishing the oars and inspecting
+the rigging. After a whole winter of getting up in the dark to do weight
+training, I feel it was well worth it as my back pain is gone, I sleep better
+and feel more overall physically capable. I have a month left of gym membership
+and plan to make use of it as much as I physically can before its expiration,
+and our casting off.</p>
 	<p>I've spend the idle hours of these past few days improving <a
 href='left.html'>Left</a>, thinking about <a
 href='concatenative.html'>concatenative programming</a> and trying to better
@@ -455,10 +475,11 @@ <h2>2024-02-25 Hello, Dot?</h2>
 <h3>18C</h3>
 <article>
 	<h2>2024-02-11 Conlang Weekly</h2>
-	<p>Other than <a href='https://100r.co/site/boat_projects.html' target='_blank'>doing improvements aboard</a>, it has been a month of playing with conlangs and conscripts. I begun
-exploring <a href='utf8.html'>variable length glyphs</a> in <a
-href='left.html'>Left</a> after adding support for the Lambda(λ) character
-last month, and went further still by supporting the <a
+	<p>Other than <a href='https://100r.co/site/boat_projects.html'
+target='_blank'>doing improvements aboard</a>, it has been a month of playing
+with conlangs and conscripts. I begun exploring <a href='utf8.html'>variable
+length glyphs</a> in <a href='left.html'>Left</a> after adding support for the
+Lambda(λ) character last month, and went further still by supporting the <a
 href='shavian.html'>Shavian alphabet</a>. I had been looking for an alternative
 alphabet for a while and loved its 48 letters, the symmetries in the glyphs and
 how easy it was to <a href='https://shavian.school' target='_blank'>learn