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2025-10-27 Hallow - Devine Lu Linvega's journal

It's spooky season!

• Released a song for Merveilles' Hallow(2025).
• Did a massive autumn cleanup of the wiki.
• Enjoyed sitting in the dark listening to Autechre live.

2025-10-25 - Melyanna's Journal

Last weekend

I am enjoying my last weekend at home before I fly back to Poland again.

I am reading “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil” by Hannah Arendt, “Dracula” through Dracula Daily, and the Daily Stoic.

2025-10-22 — Fresh air? - NUEDGE unhinged journal

I’m not mad at all this time: since I’ve come back home, my mood is much more stable and I don’t feel like shutting down pretty much ever. I had the chance to go on vacation to Greece, and it was a very nice trip. I hope more good things will follow.

2025-10-18 Radio Taiso - Devine Lu Linvega's journal

I started off by getting the attendees to mimic my movements, standing on one of the stage monitors. I raised a hand, a few hands shyly went up, I bent sideways as if to stretch, more joined in. I raised the other and a venueworth of hands poked through the fog machine haze, laughing. I twisted left, right and clapped my hands twice, the answer went clap! clap! I jumped in place twice, the answer went boom! boom! My friend said it looked like an alien tried to establish contact before the whole place blew up.

It has been a few years since I last enjoyed the early autumn weather of the east coast. We waste the shortening daylight hours kicking at the dried leaves along the park trails talking about horror movies, ideas for pumpkins and the clever things that kids we've met along the way have said.

• Jumped around a bunch!
• Wrote some strange factorial implementations.
• Reviewed microgrants, with Rek, for Rhizome.
• Fixed a bug with the Calendar rom.
• Enjoyed watching The Substance.

2025-10-03 - Melyanna's Journal

October is here

I am home from a work trip and have a few days off now that I am planning to spend resting and working on my hobbies.

I finished reading “Why we forget” by Sergio Della Sala and now I am reading “Dracula” through Dracula Daily, and the Daily Stoic.

2025-10-01 Fixing breakage - Apropos of nothing

I journaled even more in September, and wrote other stuff too. Like a web page about obscure Basic dialects. It required some research, which in turn inspired a new batch of updates to Batch Basic. That's in addition to other experiments, not yet published. Only my story is still stuck at the 5K-word mark. Can't have them all.

Managed to see a second doctor, too! My eyes are less damaged than I feared, but in need of treatment all the same. It's already helping, too, after only a few days. Still ought to rest a lot more instead of resuming my bad habits. Maybe after this journal entry.

On top of that, I went downtown no less than three times in a month. Haven't been so active in a while. The city looks worse the closer you get to the parts that everyone thinks of as fancy. Hate to be proven right like this, but nowadays everything good happens closer to the periphery.

It sure feels like everything is falling apart. Paying bills and sorting out mix-ups is getting harder every month. Hot water continues to be scarce at best. Prices are rising.

Last but not least, weather went from cricket concerts to almost winter within one month. Had to break out thicker clothes pretty fast!

Oh, I got to meet some visiting relatives: always a good thing. Been more active in various online communities, too. A lot of them seem to be dying this year, all at once. Just my luck. But everyone wants forums back, so there's hope yet.

P.S. Got my hands on another monitor, by the way: a cheap second-hand Dell very similar to my ancient spare. Works just fine, without fuss. Exactly how I like hardware.

2025-09-30 Dear Majmasz - Devine Lu Linvega's journal

A searing hot shower, fresh unwilted vegetables, new old shoes and a spray of fragrant golden leaves all conspire, during the fretful hours of the night when a few sleepless neurons can't seem to riddle out why the wind is not pivoting us around the anchor, to reassure me that we have indeed returned and are once again docked in Victoria.

I will try and draw a few dailies before we get caught in the whirlwind of visiting families and friends, I fear that I won't have much time to spare in the next two weeks.

• Started proof-reading the Victoria-Sitka logbook(untitled).
• Found an important optimization to the Uxn core!
• Finalizing rehearsals for AMP Festival on the 11th.
• Enjoyed reading that Books & Portraits for a third time.

2025-09-30 - Melyanna's Journal

Happy September!

I am in Italy, and back to work. As I write this, I am enjoying the cooler air coming from the window. I always liked Autumn, and I am happy that this season is back.

I am reading: "Thinking, fast and slow" by Daniel Kahneman.