tjp.lol

Factoring and refactoring

2026-08-01T15:55:29Z

I'm a man of some quirky obsessions, and the factor programming language is hitting me just right.

The great tjp.lol rebuild of 2026

2026-07-12T00:00:00Z

Yesterday, I fully rebuilt the site hosted here at the base tjp.lol domain.

Jujutsu is the Real Deal

2025-03-22T00:00:00Z

An experience report from using jj as my primary git frontend for a few months.

Leveling up the toolkit

2024-11-20T00:00:00Z

A story of exploration, optimization, and how awesome open-source tooling can be.

Aerc surprised me

2024-08-24T00:00:00Z

I've never been particularly happy with CLI or TUI email options. Aerc might just finally change that.

deplatforming

2024-01-04T00:00:00Z

We've really got to raise the bar in talking about issues of free speech in small web spaces, myself included.

"censorship"

2024-01-03T00:00:00Z

A domain was blocked from Antenna after a political post was made. That sounds bad.

Advent of Code

2023-12-11T00:00:00Z

AoC '23 is off to a great start.

Dealerships are the worst

2023-11-03T00:00:00Z

My Honda is great. All dealerships are incredibly bad by comparison.

From packer to lazy.nvim

2023-11-01T00:00:00Z

I ported my vim configuration again.

Guppy v0.3

2023-10-25T00:00:00Z

It feels like there's a renaissance of text client/server protocols in the small web these days, and I love seeing these come out.

Upcoming Gemini projects

2023-09-15T00:00:00Z

I've got some buns in the oven. Wait that came out wrong.

Back to classics: The Picture of Dorian Gray

2023-09-04T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while I like to pull out an old classic book.

Gopher item types: A Gemini miss?

2023-09-04T00:00:00Z

Hardly new, I know - a geminaut questions a design decision in the protocol.

Missing The Point

2023-05-29T00:00:00Z

Daniel Stenberg (cURL author) wrote a critique of the gemini specification.

NNTP - a great protocol for bridging?

2023-05-17T00:00:00Z

This gemlog is hosted on ctrl-c.club, a "place for the curious to poke around and play." It's a multi-user unix box as a social network. We have public hosting for the web and gemini, email accounts, IRC rooms, command-line games, and a custom bulletin-board software built by a member called iris.

The simple joys of the humble slide rule

2023-05-17T00:00:00Z

A slide rule is almost the simplest possible machine.

A new-post script

2023-05-09T00:00:00Z

I got to take a new "newpost" script for a spin just now and was really pleased with it.

Gemini's Killer App

2023-05-09T00:00:00Z

Joel of innerteapot.com wrote about Gemini's focus on text.

Programming language learning

2023-05-09T00:00:00Z

I'm doing ziglings right now, currently on (checks tmux pane) number 70.

Runit again

2023-04-06T00:00:00Z

I wonder how well runit shortcomings could be patched with a package of additional utilities.

The Baddies

2023-04-06T00:00:00Z

The governor of Mississippi just declared April to be "Confederate Heritage Month". Turns out it's the 30th year of this tradition, but this is the first I've heard of it.

Happy hacking

2023-01-10T00:00:00Z

Winter has been a great time for "for me" coding projects.

Better current word search in vim

2022-07-03T00:00:00Z

I noticed something when I was refactoring my vim configs for the Nth time last week, which I wrote about in a bit more detail here. It's a bit of vim configuration that I've been copying forward without thinking about it for years and years, never even remotely considering pruning it because it's so useful. I also came up with it myself but havne't ever really put any effort into sharing it, so here we are.

Neovim's lua config support

2022-06-29T00:00:00Z

I ported all my vim configs to lua over the weekend and I've never been happier with them.

On helicopter parenting

2022-06-14T00:00:00Z

I did an interesting thing rather automatically today, and it made me think.

Obligatory "first post!"

2022-05-22T00:00:00Z

I made it. I'm a gemini blogger. A gemlogger.