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@Bdkl
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I used to be a sous chef. Now I’m having some sort of mid-life crisis. An archivist, a father, and someone who just wants to carry librarian vibes going forward. Interested in programming, good literature, and most genres of music.
GitHubhttps://github.com/virinvictus
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I've been working on modding tools for an RPG from the 90s called Dark Sun: Shattered Lands and Wake of the Ravager. They're games most people probably forget but they're buggy little balls of perfection and I want to try to fix them and modernize them if it's possible. I've already built a lot of tools towards it and I've had a lot of successes.

I see the DSO guys and I'm utilizing a lot of their research.

I've been working on a few discord bots for a friend and it kinda makes me want to make an IRC bot lol

is it faux pas to star your own repos?

idk i'm doing it anyways

I've been really digging org-mode as a productivity application... so... heh... I gave it a GUI that looks and feels like a mixture of Things 3 and Omnifocus and it's database is mirrored into an org-mode readable folder structure.

It has two modes - simple mode (more like Things 3 where it hides the more complicated side of the application) and builder mode (more like Omnifocus and a lot more detail on your task).

I really tried with this one. It's local-only.

https://github.com/VirInvictus/Atrium

I haven't been able to update metadata in Calibre for the last week or so and its' been really frustrating me - Storygraph was the only source available to me but it's library is too limited - to find out today that it was a bug specifically with Fedora 44 and how they handled certs.

sudo update-ca-trust extract --rhbz2387674

Had to run that in order to fix the cert issue, but I saw in the MobileRead forums that Kavil has it patched in the next release of Calibre.

I really enjoyed the Mac Power Users episode about e-readers, but I think I ultimately have decided on buying a Pocketbook Era as my next e-reader.
I like Kobo and would love it if they made a premium-grade e-reader.

the state of e-readers is frustrated in 2026.

I want another Kindle Oasis and nobody is making one.

Everything feels cheap and flimsy in comparison.

I've been poking at making a todo application for awhile now. It's almost ready for release.

Full compatibility with emac's org-mode.

I missed Things 3 / Omnifocus and wanted to play with the idea a little bit.

Next roadmap item is for the .org files to be visible (but separate from the database) as a reflection in a file manager.

Ideally will be a two-way mirror.

Related: the greatest curse of the middle-aged American man is the persistent belief that he is inadequately appreciated.