Today I had to write a very small (three lines) script in PHP for something I need tested at work. And that brought back some memories from a project that I had to do for the school in Australia, when I was studying there.
For that school project I had to build an entire website, and we had to show our skill writing a CRUD application that used a database. If those who don’t know, CRUD stands for create, retrieve, update and delete, basically all the operations one would need to create a website that keep data in a database.
Today I have turned 46 years old. Last time that I did a post about my birthday it was 10 years ago. Since today was a working today my birthday celebration was postponed to Saturday.
On this birthday I feel blessed that I have Gabi with me and that we are here in Brazil living our lives and finding our path, that we are both working and healthy. I am also happy that we are close to my mom and Gabi’s parents and we are able to help them when they need us.
My Gemini capsule (gemini://gmi.antonio.is) is up and running now but is out of date. I initially had my Gemini running on my Odroid but since I can’t have the Odroid setup right now I decided to use Flounder for my Gemini needs.
If you are not familiar with Gemini is a protocol that was created not long ago to be a simpler web. It basically focus on text content. And because is simpler it doesn’t have tracking and other annoying things that the web does.
One podcast that I enjoy listen to from time to time is the Hacker Public Radio or HPR for short. Most of the episodes are about geek stuff.
But what I find most interesting about HPR is who it is a community organized podcast, meaning that each episode is submitted by a community member. Anyone can submit a podcast and there is a review process for new participants. The only rule around the topic is that need to be something that interest hackers.
I find that there isn’t anything more restoring that a good night of sleep. I’ve been trying to get at least eight hours of sleep per night. Sometimes I don’t get to bed until late but most of my mornings I don’t have anything to pressing so I can stay in bed a bit longer.
When I don’t sleep enough I feel I am agitated during the day and is harder to focus.
Today I will talk about another open source project, this time it is a platform that brings Twitter Spaces to Mastodon. The project is called Audon and named after Audio + Mastodon.
I think the killer feature of this platform is that it works with Mastodon. I tested it today and it works well. I used what I believe it is the official instance. There isn’t a lot of information para the project in their Git repo, but I used two different accounts from different Mastodon instances and I managed to have a conversation like one would on Twitter Spaces.
