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the last couple of months have flown by - here is a quick update
2026-04-06
It has been since February since I've updated my blog - in the last entry, we were talking about the new changes coming to Discord with the age verification nonsense - something that is even making its way into operating systems now - but that is a story for its own blog entry.
It has been awhile since I have done a "what I've been up to" post, and this one is going to be a bit long for the now page, so I figured it would get its own blog entry. So, this page is going to be a look back at the last few months, reflect back on what I've been up to, and a look forward at what I've got planned the rest of spring and going into summer of this year.
The last couple of months since the last post has been a bit of a blur, we have had quite a bit going on around here and I haven't been doing as much on my site lately. I'm planning on fixing this over this next week, as I have some things on the site I really need to get caught up on.
One of the things we've finished up is finally having expanded our chicken coop, and moved the chickens into the new one. They seem quite happy, and we have been getting several eggs a day, normally 3-4. We have six chickens right now, five hens and one rooster, all of them Golden-Laced Wyandotte chickens.
I've also been working further on some of our new software, and it is getting to the point where these pieces of software are going to be ready for introductions on the Wiki. I am excited to get some of these new tools out and see what people think about them - I tend to write software until I think it is at a good point for sharing, and then I open-source the repositories so that others can use the software as they see fit.
I have also been working further on some new music! On top of this, I have joined a new music co-op called Subvert, an artist-owned alternative to Bandcamp, which I am excited about. Subvert is getting close to its public launch, and I have been putting my music up on my artist page. When the platform launches publicly, I will link my Subvert page here, and it will be the main place I am selling my records going forward.
Speaking of music, I have been working further on the void/null record and some remixes. I will be putting all of this out when it's ready. This new record has a very experimental, ambient vibe. Similar to autosynchronicity in spirit but quite different in how it sounds. This record has been a lot of fun to produce so far, and I can't wait to put it out there and make some more visualizer videos for my YouTube and Odysee channels.
Speaking of those channels, I have also been doing some more livestreams. I want to do it even more often, and I am thinking about doing some streams on Odysee and seeing how it goes - this is the one platform that I haven't tried streaming on yet, and it might be my favorite platform overall, being a more independent platform and more in-line with my values. If I end up doing a more consistent streaming schedule, I will post some kind of streaming calendar or something like that here on my website (maybe this needs its own place in the site navigation up top).
I have been playing some more new (to me) games lately as well. The last few were Gris and Neva. I have also been going through CrossCode on stream, and need to get back into that one as well, I was having quite a bit of fun in its world.
Every Friday I have a Fortnite game night with one of my best friends from out of state, so that is usually what I'm up to on Friday nights, typically accompanied by a cigarette and a beer, lol.
There are some other games in the backlog I plan to pick up and play finally soon, including Metroid Prime 4, Hades 2, Tales of Berseria: Remastered, and Pokemon Champions (this one drops this week). I am looking forward to playing each of these - it is going to be a lot of fun, and I might, of course, end up streaming some of it.
Other than all of this, I have been mostly finishing up writing some more documentation for some of our projects, writing some more in the book I've been slowly working on (as well as reading some), getting more things done outside in preparation for summer, and hanging out with friends and family. It has been a busy last few months for sure!
We're caught up now on some of the things I've been up to since my last update here in the blog, so let's pontificate on some of the things I'm planning over the next little while.
First off, we're getting back into finally doing FOSSphones News Roundups. I have fallen off on these over the last little while since we've been more busy than normal. I've neglected the roundups, and it is time to get back into it! Unfortunately this is something that I've not caught up with in awhile and I am planning on sitting down this week and finally getting a new roundup done covering the last little bit of news in the world of Linux phones and AOSP ROMs, because there has been a lot of new happenings in that world that we need to cover on the site.
To that end, expect a new roundup at the end of this week or beginning of next week!
I am also going to continue working on naviOS, one of our main longterm projects that I am ready to put out into the world for anyone who wants to use it. It is pretty much ready - the only thing that is currently not done is the documentation and the website for the distribution. Once these things are finished, we will begin pushing out images for anyone who wants to use it, and doing an in-depth release writeup for it.
We have some applications we have been building in the background that I also plan to have out soon along with naviOS, since they will be bundled with the distribution. I want to do a bigger writeup around some of these programs as well, since there are several of them and they will be doing different, helpful things! I am looking forward to getting these out as well and seeing what people think of them, plus the distribution as a whole.
In my effort to (re)build the Ravinia community that we have had on Discord for awhile, I have been testing out new versions of the community on Matrix and Root. This is something else that is going to have its own writeup as an update on the previous post about Discord. I have an invite link to the Matrix community on that page, and I need to do the same for the Root room. I am testing out each one and seeing which one we all land on using long-term. Obviously, Matrix is my favorite, but I also really like the things you can build and run on top of Root, as well. It is a lot of fun, and ripe for exploration. More updates will certainly be coming here!
Finally, I am going to continue working on the void/null record and putting it out on Subvert when the time is right, as well as doing some more writing in the book I've been slowly putting together. These are the two main creative, non-programming-related things I've had going on lately, and they are a very fun break away from the other things.
We will also continue working around the homestead, getting new pictures taken, digitizing more recipes, and fun things like that! My wife has also been working hard on building up a Raven's Ridge homesteading website, which we will be publishing online at its domain and linking to here soon when it is good to go and she is happy with how it is working.
As you can see, things have been pretty busy around here! I am looking forward to seeing what the rest of the spring and going into the summer brings, and I hope you have been having a great spring so far as well! Until the next update, have a good one, and thanks for stopping by!