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diff --git a/content/posts/2021-12-31-year-end.md b/content/posts/2021-12-31-year-end.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..978aa63 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/2021-12-31-year-end.md @@ -0,0 +1,171 @@ +--- +title: "2021: End of year sum up" +date: 2021-12-31 +draft: true +lang: en +categories: [ blog ] +tags: [] +translationKey: "2021-12-31-year-end" +--- + +So... it's the end of the year, let's look back at what I've achieved this year. + +## Starting a blog + +I felt like it was longer, but it turns out [I started writing a blog right at +the beginning of this year][blog-start]. I tried switching around multiple +solutions, namely Wordpress, WriteFreely, to static site (Jekyll) hosted on +GitHub, later SourceHut and currently [on a tilde][blog move], +[envs.net][envs]. I'm quite content with the current clean setup and not +planning to change. + +[blog-start]: /posts/2021-01-02-wordpress/ +[blog-move]: /posts/2021-05-29-move-site/ +[envs]: https://envs.net + +## Graduating & getting a job + +It's also the end of my life as a university student. I intended to go for +higher study, but due to my lack of planning, I missed my opportunity. On the +other side, I believe me getting my current job is another chance to acquire +more experience in programming and teamwork as well as some cash to fuel my +hobby. While this means I spend less time developing free software, I feel +better having an income and not staying in an idle state. + +## Leaving Facebook + +While escaping from Big Tech is impossible, [I have made a step away from +it][leave-fb]. Facebook is a bad actor of the web, and I do feel less irritated +after I left it. On the contrary, the current social media that I use, +[Mastodon][masto] and Pleroma, are full of nice and chill people---not that +there aren't heated ones or trolls, but it does feel like the lacking of a +manipulative algorithm does make the content better. + +Of course I'm biased, so [try it for yourself][join-fedi]. + +[leave-fb]: /posts/2021-09-12-facebook-censoring-mastodon/ +[masto]: /posts/mastodon/ +[join-fedi]: https://fediverse.party/ + +## Being more active in free software contribution + +I don't lead a big free software and I also am not a regular contributor for +any particular project, but I did participate in them. + +### Discovering the fediverse + +While I joined Mastodon since the end of last year, it is not until this +year that I tested out other various ActivityPub-based federated projects: +[PeerTube][pt], [Pleroma][pl], [Misskey][mk], [PixelFed][pf], [Lemmy][lm], +lotide[lt], [WriteFreely][wf], and [Bookwyrm][bw]. +They are all great projects. + +[pt]: https://joinpeertube.org/ +[pl]: https://pleroma.social +[pf]: https://pixelfed.org/ +[lm]: https://join-lemmy.org/ +[lt]: https://sr.ht/~vpzom/lotide/ +[wf]: https://write.as/ +[bw]: https://www.bookwyrm.social/ + +You might question the fediverse's premise: what is the point of making it +possible to interact with another server which uses entirely different +software? I just think it's great that we can freely choose whichever software +that suits their need and still can communicate with each other, whether it's +the nice and simplistic Mastodon, the customizable Pleroma with richer +features, or the even more feature-rich Misskey. + +I also tried out federated chat protocols, [Matrix][matrix] and XMPP, and I'm +sticking with Matrix because its clients look nicer generally, and they often +handle <abbr title="End-to-end encryption">E2EE</abbr> in less headaching way. +I also try out IRC during the Freenode drama, and decided to stick to a lesser +known server, [hackint.org][hackint]. The channel for IPWHL is thereon. + +[matrix]: https://matrix.org +[hackint]: https://hackint.org + +### Packaging + +If you subscribe to my blog or follow me on social media, you probably have +known about [*Floating cheeses*][ipwhl], more formally known as +<abbr>IPWHL</abbr>, which is a Python distribution on <abbr>IPFS<abbr> and has +its dependency tree pre-resolved. + +[ipwhl]: https://sr.ht/~cnx/ipwhl/ + +I also try packaging packages for GNU/Linux distributions I use. I tried to +add [Badwolf][badwolf], a minimalist web browser, and update the outdated noto +emoji font on openSUSE, though the submissions sadly were not approved. +Though, the update nheko on Void Linux[^0] to version 0.9.1 was. + +[badwolf]: https://hacktivis.me/projects/badwolf + +### Contributions to other projects + +I have contributed a fairly large amount of code to projects I use. +There are tiny ones, such as correcting typos or updating outdated information, +and there are non-feature ones, such as adding <abbr title="International +Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</abbr> layout to [Florisboard][fboard]. + +[fboard]: https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard/ + +I also fixed a bug on [flit] that prevents people with non-ASCII characters in +their names to have them written correctly in the `pyproject.toml` file, and +added another redirect to [Privacy Redirect][pr] add-on, though sadly the latter +still hasn't been fixed. + +[flit]: https://github.com/pypa/flit/ +[pr]: https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect + +### Writing my own pieces of software + +Using badwolf, I found it cumbersome to write a small tool to generates XBEL +from a YAML template. Unsatisfied with the default lotide frontend, I decided +to write an alternative one, *Luna*[^1], and later, *Yue*. I've given up on my +attempt to rewrite a conlanging tool [PolyGlot][pg], since I realize using such +software is against my plain text workflow. It's true that a software is only +born when it scratches the developer's itch. + +[pg]: https://github.com/DraqueT/PolyGlot + +## Advent of code + +I've participated in the first half of Advent of Code for the first time, but +it is increasingly less fun to do, so I dropped it prematurely. + +## Rekindle my old hobbies + +I have hobbies of making creative works, like many other nerds on the +internet: drawing, [conlanging][conlang], world building, writing fiction. +Though I only keep them to myself, it feels great to come back after a long +time neglecting them. I have a few [scribbles][comic] on here, though they're +not representative of my drawing (they're representative of my drawing *with +mouse, on a computer*), not that I draw that well. + +[conlang]: https://huyngo.envs.net/ravna/ +[comic]: /comics/ + +## Next year + +Looking back at these achievements in the last year is inspiring me to plan for +the next, though I'm leaving the details for tomorrow. + +- Host an public IPFS node to support IPWHL +- Make more advancement in developing Yue +- Make a Mastodon bot for the sake of it? +- Try out the gemini protocol +- Renewing my IELTS certificate and take a DELF test +- Publish my first usable conlang and start [translating my blogs and software + to it][conlang-sw]? +- Start drawing a comic with ideas I'm having in mind? +- Donate to good software and services I use + +I guess I should have more coherent plan but as I said, let's leave it for the +new year. + +[conlang-sw]: https://nixnet.social/notice/AEU0tveYyya0MgFRoG + +[^0]: Sorry to the majority of poll voters, I don't make decision based on + polls +[^1]: Sorry again, I promised this one will be about Luna but well, let's save + it for the *luna*r new year. |