Status update, July 2020

Last month I was not available to make a status update. Because I did not have anything to talk about, to be honest.

During june I went doing some stuff I had in my big to-do list. The first one was the new theme of the blog. I use Hugo for generating this blog. It is a static site. I was also using an outdated version of it, so I updated to the latest one available at the moment of making the new theme (0.73.0), and now everything is new! The theme is called simple-style. The original one is made by Linlin Yan. This one is publised at git.sr.ht/~captainepoch/simple-style.

In the may 2020 status update I talked about an Android architecture I was making. I deleted the whole project by mistake (I did not have any copy of it), but I did not take it bad. In fact, I renew a few things after a bit of research, and now I made another one with a better organization of files and classes. I think I will be making a few technical articles about why I choose the way I do things, but it is only in my mind right now. I am new at this, and my experience making architectures is about zero (although I have been working with a few ones to understand them). The whole project will be open at some point, but for now, it is going to remaing closed.

The other project I did something is ServerProxy. It is an Android library that, and I quote:

ServerProxy is a Android library for creating proxy servers to serve files.

It is used in DSub, an Android application to stream music from Subsonic servers (or music servers with the Subsonic API implementation). I use it, and I wanted to update the application a little bit, fix some bugs, and in general, revamp the development of it. I already made the first change, which is changing the library to something buildable with jitpack.io. You can take a look at the builds logs at jitpack.io/#captainepoch/ServerProxy. The DSub application will follow once I finish evaluating if it needs to be started from scratch or it can be maintainable as it is.

On more miscelaneous news, I started using VSCodium as my main editor. I used to use emacs, but I spent more time setting it up than using it as an editor, and right now, I need one easy to setup and ready to use as fast as possible. I am going back to Emacs someday because I loved the experience while using it, but when I have time to set it up properly.

Also, I am moving from GitHub to git.sr.ht. I am still considering if self-hosting an email service is worth it or not (I never did it, but I self-host a lot of things right now and know the burden of it). When I have my email with my own domain I can start contributing and such stuff using git send-email. If you are new in that world, check Drew DeVault’s git-send-email.io for getting started.

That is it for now. Thank you for reading this, and I hope you stay safe out there. See you next month!