weeknote #24.02

Surprising new progress with self-written homepage. After almost two years (if not more) of trying different open-source solutions, starting to write my own and then again abandoning in frustration, trying something else, giving up, giving in, and so on... I found time and energy and (most importantly!) patience to start writing my own tiny engine for my webpage, again. I told myself "if it's gonna take a year, it should take a year" and suddenly, I have a working MVP (minimum viable product) in two days?! It's hacky, very rough, but the core works exactly the way I want it to. It's probably very inelegant, but it's mine. I don't think I will even name it. It's my turf and it can be in continuous construction. There's still some important parts to be added content-wise before I go live with it (music releases).

I'm happy about it and I am realising a number of things on the way... How my desires work, how I want to polish and change and get it perfect, and how I'm restraining myself and telling myself keep it simple and rough, keep it simple and rough, and so on. It's one important (though difficult) part of the path of #BeYourOwnPlatform, which strives towards creating your own spaces online that are independent of platform capitalism and venture capital.
It's been a rough road for physical health from new years eve, when I got sick from COVID19, from which I was just getting better when kidney stones pain attack hit me and made me miserable again. I learned how to handle it (with gazillion litres of water and lemonade and with ibuprofen at times) I got cold and bladder infection at the same time. Went on a ultrasound scan and the result is that the stone that was source of pain is gone (probably it passed), but there are stones on the other side (where I had and have no pain). Nasty, but survivable. Hope to be out of it in few days.
I've been reading more than usually (or last year). I'm kinda embarassed to say how little I actually read last year - I mean like books from cover to cover. This time, this year, I want to read more. I set myself a goal to read at least one (science-fiction) novel/book per month. In January I have already finished quite a strong one "Fall of Hyperion" by Dan Simmons. I'm also enjoying eINK reader BOOX where I customized the reading app with a custom font through advice from practicaltypography.com and I'm now using a lovely IBM Plex Sans Medium.
New release: algoforte05live is in preorder and will be release by the end of the month to my Patreon members and public. In fact members already got it as an early access while they pay (I charge them) whenever I make a public, free, CreativeCommons release. As you may know, I performed algoforte 5 in november in Cankarjev dom and I managed to record it onto two media - including static video. I have worked a little on that recording in terms of mixing and mastering and the result is an interesting live document that I'm releasing now.

weeknote #24.02

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