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After one solid day, the Help Ro Replace His Old Ass Electronics Fund is at $1005.78/$3000, which is a fantastic start.

A big shout out to everyone that has not only given, but also left some very kind words of encouragement and affirmation. Those small acts of kindness mean a lot to me.

Let’s keep it going. There’s a good chance we can knock this out this week, so I can get some new stuff and keep pushing #fipamo and #thebadspace forward, as well as some other tidbits I can't talk about publicly just yet.

LET'S GET THIS DONE!

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Bully of Bullies, Inc Sep 17, 2025

In any event, I’m definitely going to keep working on #fipamo and I'm definitely not abandoning #thebadspace because it's built to be able to adjust to different platforms and, you know, it's just fucking cool. I might rebrand it for some reasons I'll talk about later, but it's not going anywhere.

I think I may need to just stop using all these fedi platforms and commit to building the specific experience I want.

But this current version of the fedi?

This aint it.

Bully of Bullies, Inc Sep 13, 2025

Ok, so learning Rust by rebuilding one of projects with it probably wasn’t the best way to go about it, but yall.

The #fipamo rebuild is about 60% done and it’s already a whole new application.

I legit cannot wait to get this thing in the world so folks can see it.

Bully of Bullies, Inc Aug 13, 2025

I have about 25% of #fipamo’s back end rebuilt in Rust.

This shit is fucking *fast*

Bully of Bullies, Inc Aug 10, 2025

I spent a lot of time getting the markdown parsing and rendering in #fipamo to be as quick and easy as possible with PHP.

I’m really excited to see how much faster it can be in Rust.

The raw speed of Rust is pretty wild.

Bully of Bullies, Inc Aug 10, 2025

Ok, I made a deal with myself that if I could rebuild #fipamo’s login system in Rust in a couple of days, I’ll convert it.

I’m sure it’s hacky as shit and I still have a ton to learn, but I pulled it off.

I kind of hated the compiler at first, but the error checking in Rust is exceptionally good, so a big challenge is just learning what those errors mean because it will tell you with some accuracy why it’s failing.

Also programming in Rust is very different from anything else I’ve used, so that takes some getting used to. The syntax is odd and you can’t exactly do straight OOP, but once you get a feel for, it’s weird how it just flows.

I’m still struggling a bit with error checking and data returns because Rust wants you to be specific, but I’ll get there in time.

But after doing a little mini run to learn the basics, I see why people love Rust.

Bully of Bullies, Inc Aug 5, 2025

So the original #fipamo project was originally written in NodeJS, but I got tired of wrangling npm, so I rewrote it with PHP a couple of years ago, which I also used to build #thebadspace.

Both projects have made significant strides in the last year, so I wanted to make deployment easier which was why I was looking to rewrite the code base in something modern.

Ha, I was looking at Go, but I didn’t anticipate folks who make things singing the praises of Rust, so I’m looking hard at that too.

I have that good anxious feeling in my gut that usually means I’m about to get into some really fun nerd shit.

Mad Villain Jul 2, 2025

Ha, yes, I know, I need to update my Patreon.

The last couple of months have been a grind, so admittedly I’ve let it drift.

But it’s gonna get some love soon as some stuff has changed behind the scenes and I need make a push to get it up around 1k as work continues on #Fipamo and #TheBadSpace

All the technical nerd stuff I do is public, so I’m going to use that space for more personal thoughts about what’s going on with me and just weird stuff in my brain from day to day.

So if you want to see behind the curtain, drop a few bucks to get the inside scoop.

The link is in my bio.

Mad Villain Jun 25, 2025

Hm, so AP implementation in #fipamo is pretty straightforward, so the main challenge will be putting together a UI for it that isn’t garbage.

I’m gonna start with the design first.

I’ll post up some links when I have something to show.

Mad Villain Jun 25, 2025

iAWriter supports blog frameworks direct in app, so I’m wondering if I can reach out to them and get it to support #fipamo

That would be really cool