2026-05-17

🛠️ Projects

Mirbeau: Converting a Zola site into Gemini capsules

As announced in the previous note, I started working on a tool to convert a Zola site into Gemini capsules. For this, I started a new project called mirbeau. Everything was going well, except that when trying to test its functionality, the library of functions I wrote some time ago, Ṇautica, which serves to transform markdown into gemtext, “exploded in mid-air” with what is called a panic in Rust (the language I use for this project). It was a general software crash.

This is how I realized that Ṇautica actually had a major problem in the method used to transform markdown into small pieces easily translatable into other languages (for more details on the subject, see Syntax Analysis on Wikipedia).

I am currently in the process of rewriting everything, but it’s taking time and I’m finding it very hard to concentrate right now.

👀 Discovered

Mhhhh. Lots of things, but I forgot to note them down 😞

📺 Watched

Still nothing this week. Is it worth keeping this section?

📖 Read

Magus of the Library: In a world half-fantasy, half-thousand and one nights, a village child meets an librarian from the Great Library who lends him a book. The boy then goes on to do everything he can to also become a librarian.

The drawings are beautiful, with lots of detail; the presented world is quite fascinating. The cultures presented are both familiar and alien, but all with many details and particularities. It’s very surprising.

🎧 Listened

My cat’s meows. It has its very cute moments, but it remains a very talkative cat.

🎮 Played

Still Factorio, where after building my rocket factory on Vulcanus, I arrived on Fulgora. This planet is filled with ruins of a long-disappeared civilization, which left the planet a cold hell with oceans of petrochemical oil and permanent storms. Storms that will have to be exploited to power its factory with electricity.

With the release of Subnautica 2, I had the urge to play the first one again, to find myself at the controls of a submarine exploring the depths of a strange, beautiful, and dangerous planet. I will probably buy the sequel once I have a bit more money saved up.