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Sona

@stau.space

I just found this note, I think I'm slowly going insane

December 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM

Sona

@stau.space

I just finished watching The Hidden Fortress and is Rashōmon connected to The Hidden Fortress?

Picture 1. The end of The Hidden Fortress
Picture 2. The start of Rashōmon

Two peasants bowing on a bright white field of pebbles.

A monk talking while kneeled on a bright white field of pebbles with a peasant sitting behind him.

December 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM

Sona

@stau.space

How come tangled shows a proportion of code that is waaay different than what my forgejo instance shows me :Q

Proportion of code that forgejo shows me: 96.8% C

Proportion of code that Tangled.org shows me: 38.6% C and 60.4% Other

November 29, 2025 at 2:28 AM

Sona

@stau.space

Just saying this might be the ugliest piece of code I will ever write but it works

A C function that converts a UUID into characters. The way it does this is by taking each nibble in the UUID and mapping it to an ASCII character that represents the hexadecimal it would usually represent. Since there are 38 nibbles, there are 38 seemingly arbitrary lines that do the conversion.

November 29, 2025 at 2:23 AM

Sona

@stau.space

Many people gather on El Morro's grass yard to fly kites, eat cold sweet treats and spend the day with friends and family.

Its original purpose was to stall the advancement of invaders by forcing them to approach the fort through an expanse of dirt while dodging cannonballs and musket fire.

El Morro's grass yard on a sunny day. This is a black and white analog photograph.

November 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM

Sona

@stau.space

Very interesting architecture here:

- Canon AE-1 Program
- Ilford HP-5

#analog #photography #art #blueskyartshow

A black-and-white analog photograph of a fortress next to the sea.

November 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM

Sona

@stau.space

I'm currently migrating all my projects to tangled (while also putting them on a self-hosted forgejo instance) and this looks very suspicious, in hindsight. Hope the tangled devs don't freak out 🤞

$A dark themed interface displaying a timeline of projects and updates from tangled.org. The entries detail projects "fractaldraw," a parallel C++ fractal renderer for escape-time fractals, and "hare-colorizer," a TTY colorizer for the Hare programming language. The last project listed is "cpp-colors," described as extremely minimal color printing utilities for C++. Those three projects show that they were made by the same person, stau.space.$

November 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM

Sona

@stau.space

3/3
Combine this with a sunset picture and you get a bunch of silhouettes walking on the clouds doing wholesome things like flying kites, running around, being together, etc.

Black and white analog photograph showing four people's and an observation deck's silhouettes in the distance. The bottom portion of the picture is black, the top is a backdrop of clouds. One of the persons is inclined forwards with attending a child, the other two are seemingly walking together.

November 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM

Sona

@stau.space

2/3
The way this shot was made is kind of interesting I think:
El Morro in El Viejo San Juan has a large elevated walkway. When you stand on the east side of that walkway and look over, the people on the walkway are relatively above you with a backdrop of clouds.

November 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM

Sona

@stau.space

1/3
This is one of my favorite photographs.

- Canon AE-1 Program
- Ilford HP 5

#analog #photography #art #blueskyartshow

Black and white analog photograph showing three people's silhouettes in the distance. The bottom portion of the picture is black, the top is a backdrop of clouds. One of the persons is inclined forwards with their hands on their knees towards the other two. The second seems to be a child running around. The third a person with their arms open wide.

November 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM

Sona

@stau.space

Here's an image to cleanse your eyes after that last post:

Floating croissant with a moth on it.

Captured with:
- Canon AE-1 Program
- Ilford HP5

#photography #analog #art

An image of a floating croissant with a month on it. Captured in black and whit Ilford HP Film.

November 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM

Sona

@stau.space

Why not put it on F-droid or some other F-droid repo? You could also just have an APK in the releases.

I enjoy that second option in particular because it's how I actually installed the official bluesky client, through Obtainium (I included some screenshots)

A screenshot showing Obtainium's Apps view. It shows a list of apps that are either installed, need an update or not installed. In particular, one of the last is bluesky.

The bluesky installer in Obtainium. It shows the GitHub release associated to it, and more information about the GitHub account.

November 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM

Sona

@stau.space

I thought this beam of sun looked really pretty yesterday evening until I looked closer and...

The ceiling has a huge spot of green/black mold! My uni needs to get their shit together.

Hallway with a beam of sun entering the far end. A large spot of green and black mold oozes from the ceiling near the top of the picture which would look otherwise clean.

November 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM

Sona

@stau.space

Had to rawdog a lecture because all of my digital notetaking tools ran out of battery at the same time. I forgot how fun it was to just draw things...