I'm going to start backporting a few of the changes from the new Para into the existing front end, but most of my efforts on this will be on the new front end as it's way smaller & much cleaner than the original.

Arland's new PC won't boot from the old hard disk w/o EFI. We're going to put in an NVME M.2 drive instead.

As of 1130 it's starting to rain slightly. I stopped at B&N, had a matcha, and did some writing. I also set up a local Konilo on the new Fold 7, so I can work productively locally on this.

One nice thing on the Fold 7: I can comfortably run Konilo on the lower half of the screen and IRC or Mastodon clients on the top.

I found an invalid instruction bundle in RetroForth. It had an extra NOP, which didn't cause an issue now, but I should update retro-muri to add in bundle validation like I did for pali.

I'll do a little work on the catjam code tonight, but am pretty tired, so probably won't get very far.

My annual physical in the evening went well. I'll have a bit of lab work to get done and a followup based on that, but so far it looks like my health is stable.

The pastor had to make an emergency trip in the afternoon, so we had a different speaker in the evening. This still went well.

In the afternoon, I played Stardew Valley, and read for a while. No programming today.

I finished backfilling many of the WISP blocks, though I still have about two weeks of missing entries since May. I'll try to finish those tomorrow and Friday.

You'll see me filling in backlog entries in WISP this week. I have a mix of handwritten notes, and notes on one of my mobile offline devices to trancribe, but should be able to get this all updated over the next few days.

In the near future I'll do a mini-spec that tries to provide a reference for those with some familiarity with ilo, though not being a fully fleshed out spec for implementers.

Church went ok. I'm still dealing with the eye issue, and was tired, and a little lagging in keeping up with the verses.

My left eye is swollen, and painful, more so than last night. No discoloration in the eye itself, so hopefully not something too serious.

My left eyelid is a bit swollen and sore.

Working on a less verbose startup for my personal Konilo. The full release version will probably keep the longer one.

Though I didn't get a license yet, I learned a lot, and feel satisfied in that. I might redo the classes when it's cooler, but definitely not when it's still in the 40's.

Church went ok, but I was still very tired during it.

I did learn a good bit, though I'm having a hard time with the clutch and stalling.

The heat means no using the mac (it's in an un-air conditioned part of the house), so I won't make any headway on the Retro & Konilo iOS updates for a while.

I was very tired in the morning, and had a bad headache. After the morning service, I went for a short walk, then rested for two hours.

In the evening, I completed the MSF e-Course so I could print the completion info for the course on Tuesday.

The wedding means I don't get a break this weekend, but that'll hopefully be ok.

After work, I headed to church to help with the rehearsal of Kim's wedding. The actual wedding is tomorrow.

I also completed a little more of the MSF e-Course.

Tonight I'll do a bit of Xcode work on RetroForth/iOS and maybe make a bit more progress towards the terminal emulation.

On the WASM side, I'm still getting a lot of traps, so there's definitely still bugs in my code. Going through and trying to do smaller tests to isolate the issues.

For WASM, I'm using wasmtime. This might be easier if I were to just use something like Zig to cross compile, but I'd rather not do that.

In the evening, Stardew Valley.

I tried running what I've written on the WASM side, and ran into traps on errors. I'll work on that tomorrow.

No work on the WASM today.

I also updated my Supernote's firmare.

The F77 one was largely done, in the sense that I have a lot of individual functions written, but it's not all tied together. Today was mostly spent connecting the pieces, and starting to debug the block i/o code.

The WASM is much less complete, so is likely to take a while.

I set up a hitoria repo for the working block set I use. I'll do some testing on this, and consider what I'd like to change. (I don't want to publish until I'm satisfied that it works well for my purposes).

It was hot & humid. I did go for a walk, and had some matcha and a coffee, but on the whole, today wasn't great.

In the evening I have a lot of pain in the arm with the two vaccination shots, and some hand pain.

I played a bit of Stardew Valley in the evening, and read for a while.

I have a few days left to transcribe into the WISP blocks. I'll try to do those over the weekend or early next week. For now I have an increase in hand pain that'll slow down any significant typing work.

4.77 MHz 8088 3m 32s 12.5 MHz 286 25s 33 MHz 386 9s

I've done some more work on hitoria as well. I'm hoping to have this get to a functional state this month. I wanted to work on retro-ios, but it was too hot in the living room to sit at the mac.

For ilo-x86-dos+vga, I have character rendering working, and started on terminal emulation for the termina vocabulary. I'm also going to do an ilo-x86-dos+cga or +ega version for lower resolution displays.

I'll be switching this to use a pre-extended ilo.rom so I can cut out the bootstrap process and save time during tests.

My work on hitoria is also continuing. Still stubbing out a lot, but actual code is compiling, and some functionality is working.

I scheduled the MSF classes for 2026.06.30 & 2026.07.01, so with a little luck I'll get my class M license on the 1st of July. For the class C, I basically just need to learn to parallel park and I can schedule a test for that.

A bit reflective: I'm enjoying writing my daily notes by hand and updating this in batches currently. Not going to give up on this log, but updates will be somewhat infrequent as I transcr- ibe my handwritten notes into it.

Weather is going to get unpleasant this week. Particularly on Thursday & Friday.

Hitoria does draw from my numerous previous experiments in trying to build a VCS for blocks, so it's not completely new. I expect a lot of this to come together fairly quickly.

Updated Xcode, and ordered a new phone (Z Fold 7). I'll try this for a while and see if it's good or not.

I did some prototype work on a terminal emulator in Swift. I'll need this eventually to support full RetroForth & Konilo on iOS.

Evening was reading, and a little work on a new ilo for DOS.

I'm going to reduce my online footprint somewhat. I designed a new protocol (basically gemini w/o the TLS parts). I'm going to move some of my stuff over to that, and then gradually migrate the HTTP parts to use an HTTP -> inati gateway. I'm tired of the modern web.

I'll publish inati soon, with Python, C, and RetroForth code. This won't help my projects grow, but I don't think I care. As long as my needs are met, I'm good to explore more minimalist approaches.

I drove to/from church for all services. So a little practice was accomplished. A walk in the afternoon.

Hand pain is returning, and I have a migrane today.

Afterwards, a short walk, tea, lunch, then home. Reading & some Stardew Valley in the evening.

I picked up new glasses after work, which was nice. These are progressive lenses, so are a bit odd compared to the simple ones I had been using, but hopefully will help reduce eye strain when reading.

The DMV office was closed, so I wasn't able to take the written permit tests. I'm quite annoyed by this. I may try to go on Tues or Thurs if it's not too busy at work.

I picked up more CGM sensors and installed one (to activate tomorrow).

Also did a little work on the new Paipera, trying to get this ready to submit for release.

The Supernote received a big update, adding in a new pen, Inkhub for sharing stickers & templates, an some bug fixes. Very nice.

Reading: took a break from October Daye to read Out Law.

In the evening, I did a haircut, mounjaro, and tried out a new LED booklight for the Supernote that arrived.

Pizza for dinner.

The evening service was outdoors. This was pleasant, with a nice breeze. Just streaming, no slides for this one, which gave me a bit of a break.

Chili after church, then I developed a stomach bug overnight.

In the evening, Ben & I made our chili for tomorrow's chili cookoff/fellowship. It turned out very good. Won't win (too unconventional), but I love the taste.

No reading today.

I worked on ilo-vnc, adding in ZRLE. This is much faster than my broken hextile attempt, and seems to work correctly. It does add a libz dependency though.

Church services went well, though I did see a brief network drop during the AM service.

Grocery shopping after church, and a late dinner.

No issues with the chuch service.

Hand pain currently, so no coding today.

Lunch at Olive Garden; kids were at Mom's.

Reading in the afternoon, over a coffee, then some walking.

The month end AR stuff is done, so I'm ready for the weekend.

There was a weird glucose spike in the evening, I don't know why since it didn't appear to be from food.

I picked up a hard case for my iPad.

No coding today. Did some reading in the evening.

At work I cleaned up my desk, and filled in the my DL paperwork.

Light rain in the evening, but I made it to church before it began. Service went smoothly.

I set up a WISP journal on my Supernote. I'll probably start handwriting my journal, and transcribing to this digital one periodically. (I like the digital form, but would like to start typing less frequently to try to stave off more RSI issues a little).

I'm pushing my current WISP blocks. There will be updates to them as I continue to go through my handwritten notes and fill out the missing days. It looks like it's mostly a couple of days in late March at this point, so maybe one more day of reading in the journals and writing out a bit?

Church went well, with no notable issues on the tech side, apart from an accidental mute on the ATEM. I'll watch for that more closely in the future.

As with yesterday, we got really busy in the last half hour of the day. This is annoying as we're short handed after 1500, so I ended up being late getting out again.

For ilo, I finally finished the cal(1) rom.

I assembled the new rack and moved my camera setup into it. Much nicer than having everything loose, though I will need to do cable management and adding a patch panel into the rack. I also want to get a rack mount voltage conditioner for it.

I worked on ilo+x11, making more optimizations to the display code, so it's a bit faster and much less stressful on the X11 server.

I note that I'm not really doing much better, though I have a tiny bit more energy today. Hopefully I'm getting over whatever has been troubling me since the Grenada trip.

For ilo, I worked on a VM with JIT. This is functional, but ends up being slower than the standard one. I'll look at it more in the future.

This went ok, though my response times are still sluggish and I have been having some difficulty focusing.

I'm going to try to get back to longer writing this week, but we'll have to see how it goes. I'm still tired and feeling off.

The flight home went smoothly, and we got back to PHL around 1030. Then getting home, unpacking, and trying to rest. Steak for dinner.

Along the way we stopped in the central rainforest, saw a monkey and some nice scenic views.

Our flight back was delayed (the plane from MIA had some mech. issues), so we didn't get to MIA in time for our connecting flight home and will have to spend the night in the airport.

The next 500 blocks arrived, but too late for us to help move them.

Other things today? We installed a pressure reglator to fix a major plumbing issue, moved some downspouts for the rain gutters and completed some touchup painting.

I finished cleaning up most of the work site, and putting in covers over electrical wiring in the basement.

The roof brace work is done, and we hung a TV for song lyrics & other things.

I started some cleanups of the site.

This is the point where I first got a noticable sunburn. Not good, but at least it's at the end of the trip, not the start.

In the sanctuary, we worked on the rebracing of the roof, and it seems to be going well.

It was hot (as expected), and the humidity was up due to rain in the morning & early afternoon.

It was nice spending some time with Joe and seeing part of the island.

When we got back, I resumed helping with the tile.

We then discovered that the walls are very much not straight, so there'll be a lot of cuts to do. Our initial layout didn't work well, and the angle grinder was struggling to do the cuts on the hard & brittle tile, so we'll need a tile saw.

We started off well. The first 1k blocks arrived, and we moved them to the raised foundation. But part way through (a couple of hours in), were getting tired & thirsty, and then discovered there was no water on site. This lead to some dehydration issues and broke our pace.

I did particularly poorly without adaquate water, a combination of dehydration from travel, lack of sleep, and the heat. I ended up needing to retreat and rest/hydrate for a while.

The flight from MIA to GND was quiet, and we arrived about half an hour behind schedule. Not too bad.

Initial impressions after being picked up & taken to the Air B&B

The afternoon/evening is hot, but manageable. Kind of like some trips to Florida. Roads are terrible, narrow, and driving is not pleasant. The construction quality we saw as we drove is quite varied, but some things are not good there.

About a week left before the Grenada trip. My focus will be on things relating to this, at least in the evenings.

We went out looking at cars today. I have some notes on a few possible types. Now to actually find something we can afford.

Today was work on RetroForth for iOS. I finished ripping out the old network code & replacing it with a new Swift implementation that's much more reliable and massively smaller.

I think if I go this route I'll be looking at a smaller bike or motor scooter, at least initially. My needs are basically all local, though it'd be nice to find something fairly light that can handle highway speeds on occasion.

The younger kids had a bowling event in the evening, and I just rested.

Dustin suggested I look into getting a motorcycle license, which seems pretty straightforward, and would open up more options for me.

We are going to move the April trip for Tammie & the kids into the summer.

I'm having Arland run through the Wednesday services now to get more comfortable doing them while I'm away. Tonight went ok.

I'm pretty tired, and busy planning things with regards to the Grenada trip, so my next few days might not have much writing.

Missions app is approved, so will start getting the content in place this week.

Evening was just reading a bit.

I also worked on an update for Paipera. It's a big overhaul of the application, adding bookmarks, highlights, daily reading, search, and more configurability.

Evening was spent at church. We had a financial lecture, and it ran about 4 hours. Long, but enjoyable overall.

I'm tired now, so heading to bed. No reading or programming tonight.

Tammie had an accident with the van. So it's out of commission for at least a day, and maybe more. I'll probably walk to work tomorrow. Or maybe hassle John or Gene for a ride.

I began a `longform` vocabulary (similar to WISP, but for much longer writing). It'll be a bit before I share it, but I've made some use of it already, with an article on portability and perf- ormance.

Some wifi issues at the church tonight. Will investigate.

In the evening I had to fix an issue with the beta of the time- card app on iOS, and it's now in TestFlight.

Possibly a little more snow tonight/tomorrow, but hopefully only a heavy dusting.

We've dug out somewhat, but there's still a lot in the parking lot so our van (which has some engine issues now) is stuck for the day.

I went for a walk in the afternoon, as it switched from a light rain into snow. By 1600 it was getting heavy, and we ended up with about 8-10" by midnight as I write this. Going to bed now.

During the afternoon I did some work on the web side of Para Timecards, which is getting close to ready.

It was blissfully free of snow (most of the lingering snow from the last storm has melted), so my walk was pleasant. But we may get hit again tomorrow.

Dinner was a salad, then spent the night resting.

Evening was spent reading, and updating some notes in prep for the weekend programming project.

We had interviews between 1100 and 1430, then inventory in the evening until I had to leave for church.

Still having low glucose issues at night and not resting well, which is hurting my productivity a bit.

I did help a bit with inventory in the evening.

Picked up groceries after church.

No personal coding or reading today.

I did a little work on ripanga and some more cleanups in my blocks.

Took a lunch walk, had coffee, and then headed home to read & rest.

Despite this work went well, until 1530 when my glucose crashed again while at the counter.

Went home, had a salad, then rested for the evening.

For church, I started writing an application for interactive access to information on our missionaries. I'm hoping to have it be a useful, but still somewhat fun thing that'll make it easier to learn what's going on in the field.

I wrote a small Flask application for work to reformat a report we use to generate count sheets for physical inventory checks.

Then home, dinner, and bed.

No personal project work today.

I'm doing some work on the new RetroForth for iOS. Mainly in the Obj-C & Swift code. Specifically: I'm trying to get a terminal emulator functioning for interactive use.

(Evening update): all of the servies went well, and I've been home for a few hours. It's very cold still, but should warm a bit later this week. No programming or reading today.

I took a late lunch walk, and made it home around 1600.

I haven't finished The Regicide Report yet but will by the end of Saturday. Tomorrow will be busy with the start of the mission conference at church.

I'm doing my daily computing under SSH on the reMarkable Move today. I don't have an ilo-unix, so am just using the basic ilo with line buffering. It's not great for (termina) programs, but works well for the standard applications. And using the basic line editor is still good enough for me.

Maybe I should do an ilo.blocks w/o the termina stuff and just a more minimal overall system?

Didn't do any programming today, but did start backing up data from the devbox to the rsync.net zfs store in prep for a reset of the devbox to become my prod server (it'll replace the linode I use now) with FreeBSD.

This is part of some cost-cutting efforts on my part. I'll have a series of tech changes to help with this, and some non-tech adjustments as well.

After work I found out that my youngest son was suspended from school until at least Thursday. This is *very* troubling for me. We've grounded him as well, and he's going to have to give up some fun activities through the end of the current school year as a result. Not pleasant. Hopefully he learns from this.

We had some RF issues with the lapel mic in the services, and I saw some issues with the wifi and streaming. Will look at those further.

Lunch was a bit of pizza.

I took a walk, had some coffee, and a bit of chicken. Then home, more prep on the next cairn story, and a little reading. No programming today.

In the evening, we set Ben's computer up on the TailScale net.

I did some work on the Watt Tally code today.

There's a possible storm coming this weekend, but hopefully it will shift off the cost. I don't want more snow.

I decided to work on a revived Watt Tally. I had some big issues in the original, so this will be good to get to a better state.

For Konilo, I did a little more cleanup in the (std) blocks, saving 3 more cells, and reduced the block count by 1. I may try to do some work on the RetroForth code tomorrow, but it's less fun in some ways.

Church tonight. I'll push my blocks now, and write more tomorrow (as always).

Charles Stross' new book The Regicide Report is out. I'll start reading it tomorrow. It'll be a fun end to the month for books.

In ilo, I did a version using an sqlite3 database for the blocks I'll use this to explore a version-control scheme (one of a few that I want to try out).

Some minor notes updates today, and did some work on updating the transfer labels programs for Gilbertsville to remove the hard coded list of branches & printers.

I slipped on the ice on the way out. No serious injury, but a little beat up on the palms & knees.

About 9" of snow, and some ice. It's cold, and overly bright as a result of glare.

I finished the core of the current cairn story, but need to type it up for Arland. Might do that tomorrow.

In the evening, went to the church & showed Jackson how to do the basics with the ATEM for live streaming. We'll do more on this later.

No services tomorrow, except for the live stream.

It looks very likely that we will be getting a lot of snow (for this area) over the weekend. Not happy about this, but will try to deal with it as best as I can.

Tomorrow I need to run to the church to check out the cameras; AgentDVR isn't showing them being up, so something may need to be done on the laptop.

Evening update: layout is setup, and I have a sanitize script to rebuild a clean ilo.blocks from my personal set. Now to finish moving the blocks around & sync to the repo.

So I now have Teensy4, RP2350, and ESP32 systems. For cost, I want to use either RP2350 or ESP32. I'll make some decisions on this soon.

Church tomorrow. And another work day. Doing some reading this evening.

My evening was spent working on Patengi (adding batch conversion of formats, and more improvements to the reader module, which is now using epub.js)

Then dinner, a bit of reading, and bed for some rest.

Tammie wasn't feeling well, so I asked Jackson for rides to/from the church. Services were ok, but attendance was light.

The roads are still a mess, and I'm hoping it'll be a little better tomorrow.

I spent the afternoon reading my new book, then dinner & bed.

I did a little work on the new patengi code, starting on an epub reader. This won't be quick I think, and I may look at uing the epub.js project for this.

I started a revival of my old patengi application for managing an ebook library.

Six new API functions added, and about a third of the main parts of the nww Para interface are done.

No cairn again. Sorry Arland.

Not done with the cairn story yet. Been too tired to feel like playing.

I mailed in the passport renewal paperwork.

In the afternoon I got my passport photo and picked up some prescriptions.

No computer work today other than church.

A little reading, and a lot of resting. Some minor cleaning in the house. Not a bad day.

It was busy at work today. I resolved several problems, and was able to complete a bunch of API updates and make a start at a Python + Tk interface to Para. This is intended mostly as a test ground for a more native set of front ends for it, though it'll likely be a bit before I can start the actual desired ones.

Kids have an activity at church tonight, and I have a breakfast meeting tomorrow. That'll wrap up for today.

I'm continuing work on the para-branch application, making more changes that should help improve stability and factor better between the front end and backend. (As before, I'm using CC to help here, since my RSI issues would otherwise mean delaying this. I'd rather save my actual typing time for my personal programming efforts rather than the business ones).

Evening was picking up groceries, more insulin, and paying a few bills. Then an attempt to sleep.

Work was stressful today, but I did get in a little time on my solo cairn game, and then went back to dealing with many, many headaches.

Only programming today was work on para-branch, adding per-IP configurable timeouts to help make things easier at the slower LV store.

At work, I'm doing some database work on our in-house order mgmt system. This will reduce the number of queries needed to build most output significantly, which I think will help with perform- ance. I also added a thin caching module. Then I worked on two new reporting tools for some parts of the data.

For konilo, I added `when` and `unless` as aliases for `if` and `-if`. These give a little different feel when reading, which I like.

I am having severe pain in my left hand today. This will impact what I can get done this evening. Probably not going to do much programming tonight.

Not feeling well, and my blood glucose reflects this.

I was able to do some reading today, which was nice. I'm about 85% done with the Powder Mage trilogy, so I'll have to decide on something new to start soon.

In the afternoon I worked on the notes on my Supernote, then had dinner before taking a few minutes to write this post. I will now resume reading until I decide to shut down for the night.

More to come tomorrow. Hopefully a more productive day, but I am feeling a bit unwell, so it's hard to be certain at this point. If I don't feel better, I'll prioritize resting when I can until this passes.

I'm working on the update to Konilo's startup blocks. The change will have them load the stdlib, applications, and such only if EXTENDED is not defined already. And I add one (std) block that defines this. So you can build a fresh image, then load once and do a `rom:save`. Afterwards you'll have fast startups, and if you prefer the old behavior, just don't do the `rom:save`.

I'm going to rebuild the manual from the ground up, to reflect changes made, and try to get it to a more useful state. I'll start on that tomorrow I think.

No programming today, other than writing a bit with sitelen ilo.

I did backup my WISP blocks and set up for this year.

Tomorrow I'm nominally off work. (In that I need to open/close the store, but am not actively working.). I'll probably try to do a bit of development on a few of my personal projects, and maybe get the paperwork for a passport renewal filled out.