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  1. I'm writing this month's status update from a brand-new desktop workstation (well, I re-used the GPU), my first new workstation in about 10 years. I hope this new one lasts for another decade! I aimed for something smaller and lightweight this time — it's a Mini-ITX build. I've only been running this for a few days, so let me tell you about the last few accomplishments which are accountable to my venerable workstation's final days of life.
  3. First, there's been a ton of important work completed for SourceHut's API 2.0 plans. All of the main blockers for the first version of meta.sr.ht's writable GraphQL API are resolved, and after implementing a few more resolvers it should be in a shippable state. This included riggings for database transactions, simplification of the mini-"ORM" I built, and support for asyncronous work like delivering webhooks. The latter called for a new library, dowork, which you're free to reuse to bring asyncronous work processing to your Go programs.
  5. => https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/dowork/ dowork
  7. I also built a new general-purpose daemon for SourceHut called chartsrv, which can be used to generate graphs from Prometheus data.
  9. => https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/chartsrv/ chartsrv
  10. => https://prometheus.io/ prometheus
  12. I've been getting more into Gemini this month, and have completed three (or four?) whole projects for it:
  14. => https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/gmni/ gmni and gmnlm: a client implementation and line-mode browser
  15. => https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/gmnisrv/ gmnisrv: a server implementation
  16. => https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/kineto/ kineto: an HTTP->Gemini portal
  18. The (arguably) fourth project is the completion of a Gemini version of this blog, which is available at gemini://drewdevault.com, or via the kineto portal at https://portal.drewdevault.com. I'll be posting some content exclusively on Gemini (and I already have!), so get yourself a client if you want to tune in.
  20. I have also invested some effort into himitsu, a project I shelved for so long that you probably don't remember it. Worry not, I have rewritten the README.md to give you a better introduction to it.
  22. => https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/himitsu himitsu
  24. Bonus update: two new BARE implementations have appeared: OCaml and Java.
  26. => https://baremessages.org BARE
  28. That's all for now! I'll see you for the next update soon. Thanks for your support!