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  2. title: Status update, October 2020
  3. date: 2020-10-15
  4. outputs: [html, gemtext]
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  7. I'm writing this month's status update from a brand-new desktop workstation
  8. (well, I re-used the GPU), my first new workstation in about 10 years. I hope
  9. this new one lasts for another decade! I aimed for something smaller and
  10. lightweight this time — it's a Mini-ITX build. I've only been running this
  11. for a few days, so let me tell you about the last few accomplishments which are
  12. accountable to my venerable workstation's final days of life.
  14. First, there's been a ton of important work completed for SourceHut's API 2.0
  15. plans. All of the main blockers for the first version of meta.sr.ht's writable
  16. GraphQL API are resolved, and after implementing a few more resolvers it should
  17. be in a shippable state. This included riggings for database transactions,
  18. simplification of the mini-"ORM" I built, and support for asyncronous work like
  19. delivering webhooks. The latter called for a new library, [dowork][dowork],
  20. which you're free to reuse to bring asyncronous work processing to your Go
  21. programs.
  23. [dowork]: https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/dowork/
  25. I also built a new general-purpose daemon for SourceHut called
  26. [chartsrv][chartsrv], which can be used to generate graphs from
  27. [Prometheus][prometheus] data. The following is a real-time graph of the load
  28. average on the builds.sr.ht workers:
  30. [chartsrv]: https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/chartsrv/
  31. [prometheus]: https://prometheus.io/
  33. ![A chart which hopefully shows a reasonable load average across all workers](https://metrics.sr.ht/chart.svg?title=Build%20worker%20load%20average&query=avg_over_time%28node_load15%7Binstance%3D~%22cirno%5B0-9%5D%2B.sr.ht%3A80%22%7D%5B1h%5D%29&max=64&since=336h&stacked&step=10000&height=3&width=10)
  35. I've been getting more into [Gemini][gemini] this month, and have completed
  36. three (or four?) whole projects for it:
  38. [gemini]: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
  40. - [gmni][gmni] and gmnlm: a client implementation and line-mode browser
  41. - [gmnisrv][gmnisrv]: a server implementation
  42. - [kineto][kineto]: an HTTP->Gemini portal
  44. [gmni]: https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/gmni/
  45. [gmnisrv]: https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/gmnisrv/
  46. [kineto]: https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/kineto/
  48. The (arguably) fourth project is the completion of a Gemini version of this
  49. blog, which is available at `gemini://drewdevault.com`, or via the kineto portal
  50. at [portal.drewdevault.com](https://portal.drewdevault.com). I'll be posting
  51. some content exclusively on Gemini (and I already have!), so get yourself a
  52. client if you want to tune in.
  54. I have also invested some effort into [himitsu][himitsu], a project I shelved
  55. for so long that you probably don't remember it. Worry not, I have rewritten the
  56. README.md to give you a better introduction to it. Here's a screenshot for your
  57. viewing pleasure:
  59. [himitsu]: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/himitsu
  61. ![A GUI dialog asking a user to consent to allow an application to access their IMAP credentials](https://l.sr.ht/hr4G.png)
  63. Bonus update: two new [BARE](https://baremessages.org) implementations have
  64. appeared: OCaml and Java.
  66. That's all for now! I'll see you for the next update soon. Thanks for your
  67. support!
  69. <details>
  70.   <summary>...</summary>
  71.   <img src="https://l.sr.ht/y15d.png" alt="A screenshot of a page of a programming language specification detailing the syntax of tagged unions" />
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