It is 5am and I made an IRC client
I wanted people to be able to say hello without learning IRC. This somehow became a chat website, a MOTD ingress, an RSS feed, and Geoff still does not know the weather.
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FF00 Studio4 entries
- An installer is not an alphaFF00 Studio gained deterministic Surge recipes, a real headless authority proof, and its first Windows setup program—without pretending packaging alone makes it ready for public use.
- The Rack can act. The model still cannot.FF00 Studio reached a larger pre-alpha checkpoint: Surge control survived Waveform, worker replacement stayed bounded, and the first local advisor was deliberately given no mutation authority.
- I killed the worker and Waveform kept playingFF00 Studio reached its first real host-lifecycle checkpoint: independent workers, clean project closure, state restoration, and a crash that did not take Waveform with it.
- Yes, I started the flagship before VWM is finishedFF00 VWM works inside its current alpha boundary, and the problem pulling me forward now is bigger: building a local music collaborator whose actions can be trusted.
FF00 Video Wallpaper Manager3 entries
- FF00 VWM can handle pictures nowThe second alpha adds static wallpapers, rotation, mirroring, and the lifecycle work I said had to come first.
- FF00 VWM got a home in NURThe NUR pull request merged, so FF00 VWM now has a public package under the crimsonvariable namespace.
- FF00 VWM alpha.1: from an X11 workaround to a packaged applicationThe first public FF00 VWM release turns a manual video-wallpaper process into a bounded Rust application, publishes reproducible Nix packaging, and establishes the crimsonvariable namespace in NUR.
VPS Infrastructure Blueprint2 entries
- It is 5am and I made an IRC clientI wanted people to be able to say hello without learning IRC. This somehow became a chat website, a MOTD ingress, an RSS feed, and Geoff still does not know the weather.
- I wanted IRC bots. Obviously this became mail infrastructure.I was bored, added Geoff and an actual friends room to the IRC network, then followed the existing VPS far enough to prepare self-hosted mail without pretending it already exists.
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I wanted IRC bots. Obviously this became mail infrastructure.
I was bored, added Geoff and an actual friends room to the IRC network, then followed the existing VPS far enough to prepare self-hosted mail without pretending it already exists.
Lost USB: I wanted Portage back until I buy a new SSD
I misplaced the Ventoy stick, put Nix on a shelf without abandoning it, and somehow turned a temporary Gentoo reinstall into FF00 Ark.
An installer is not an alpha
FF00 Studio gained deterministic Surge recipes, a real headless authority proof, and its first Windows setup program—without pretending packaging alone makes it ready for public use.
The Rack can act. The model still cannot.
FF00 Studio reached a larger pre-alpha checkpoint: Surge control survived Waveform, worker replacement stayed bounded, and the first local advisor was deliberately given no mutation authority.
I killed the worker and Waveform kept playing
FF00 Studio reached its first real host-lifecycle checkpoint: independent workers, clean project closure, state restoration, and a crash that did not take Waveform with it.
Yes, I started the flagship before VWM is finished
FF00 VWM works inside its current alpha boundary, and the problem pulling me forward now is bigger: building a local music collaborator whose actions can be trusted.
FF00 VWM can handle pictures now
The second alpha adds static wallpapers, rotation, mirroring, and the lifecycle work I said had to come first.
FF00 VWM got a home in NUR
The NUR pull request merged, so FF00 VWM now has a public package under the crimsonvariable namespace.
FF00 VWM alpha.1: from an X11 workaround to a packaged application
The first public FF00 VWM release turns a manual video-wallpaper process into a bounded Rust application, publishes reproducible Nix packaging, and establishes the crimsonvariable namespace in NUR.