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+title= "The Latest in Kod: A Period of Transition"
+date= 2024-10-03T17:27:34+05:00
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+<h1>The Latest in Kod: A Period Of Transition</h1>
+<p>
+	I'm transitioning from useless shut-in to working adult;
+	and the transition has brought me much anxiety and excitement.
+	That's pretty much the end of my thoughts on that.
+</p>
+<pre class="ascii">
+.____________________________________________________________________.
+|                                                            _____   |
+|   /\                                                      (____0)  |
+|  /  \  you telling me                  The scroll of      /~~~/    |
+|_/____\_  there's a whole world         truth has spoken -(~~~(     |
+| | o o|  /  out there?                                     \~~ \    |
+|  ___.'                                                     )___)   |
+|        \                                                           |
+|          That's crazy                                              |
+'--------------------------------------------------------------------'
+</pre>
+<br>
+<br>
+<p>
+	Here's what I've been up to
+</p>
+<h2>Work on Icecream</h2>
+<p>
+	I doubt I'm gonna move this website off of hugo anytime soon but there
+	are a few pain points that I experience. Namely the templating language.
+	More details about it soon but I've started work on Lisp-based SSG
+	that I'm tentatively naming Icecream or just Ic for short.
+</p>
+<p>
+	The vision is that rather than using a sort of weird pseudo-language
+	you can just use a full fledged programming language to produce your
+	pages. With all the flexibility and structure that offers. Not only that
+	but a lisp! Which offers even <em>more</em> flexibility and simplicity
+</p>
+<h2>Work on AbleOS</h2>
+<p>
+	If I am to be completely honest, I was kind of 
+	<a href="https://xkcd.com/356/">nerd-sniped</a>
+	into working on this project but I don't really regret it. The project
+	is quite unique in a lot of aspects. It's a modern non-POSIX OS; it's
+	very much against the grain.
+	The original author thinks
+	that a usable OS is possible in the future. I say if he keeps up his 
+	nerdsniping streak; it's almost a gurantee.
+</p>
+<p>
+	I'm pretty excited about the project as a whole. I'll probably be
+	writing about it a whole bunch on here.
+</p>
+<h2>Work on self-hosting</h2>
+<p>
+	The dream of every nerd is to eventually have their own server to do
+	capital T <em><b>Things</b></em> with them. For me, I'm running out
+	of ebook space and I need somewhere to put them. For this purpose,
+	"minotaur" has been revived from the dead as "hestia"; the shining 
+	light for all my other computer systems.
+</p>
+<p>
+	I plan to actually set it up for use as network share and media server t
+	his weekend. I'll write a post here about the process, 
+	<em>hopefully</em>.
+</p>
+<h3>Also Coming Soon-ish to this blog</h3>
+<ul>
+	<li>Some work on a custom chat client</li>
+	<li>A revival of an old dead project</li>
+	<li>Some insane ramblings about category theory</li>
+</ul>