My personal website, in gleam+lustre!
Ported more!
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summary: "I'm Just making some changes!",
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# strawmelonjuice logo revamp 2026!
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Hi all!
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I'm sure you've all seen this logo around the internet, it's been my
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online identity for a long time now. However, I felt it was time for a
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And so... I booted up the good old Krita and got to work. After a few
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hours of sketching, refining, and coloring, I present to you the new and
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improved strawmelonjuice logo, est. 2026!
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Hope you like it as much as I do!
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> This art is mine, you may not download and use this. This is my logo
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> and so represents me in my online presence, using it would be online
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> impersonation.
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# A misunderstanding
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_This post was migrated from an older version of strawmelonjuice.com. It
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might have some quirks._
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A misunderstanding! Will the bunny-thing eat the mole-thing? I think
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they'll become friends.
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{.notion}
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This art is mine, you may not download and use this without [asking
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me](mailto:mar@strawmelonjuice.com) and getting my permission!
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# Stepping away from GitHub
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Over the past years, my relationship with GitHub and my code was a
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wellunderstanding one. When I first started writing open source, back
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then using entirely different aliases (so no, you won't find my old old
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code), GitLab was the friendly one.
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GitLab offered free stuff that GitHub did not yet.
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Over time this changed, and so did my preference.
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Now, my hand feels forced into tech I am not looking to expand. My
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preference has to change once again.
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## Microsoft takeover
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A few years ago GitHub was acquired by Microsoft, many people feared of
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what was coming, but I told them: "GitHub remains in control, nothing
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will change."
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How naive.
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As the GitHub CEO stepped down recently, Microsoft took it's chance...
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\..and now who manages GitHub?
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Not _just Microsoft_. Microsoft's *AI TEAM*. GitHub is apparently no
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longer a VCS remote. It's an AI thing entirely.
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## LLM's
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I'm not against any form of large language models, and the usage of AI
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outside of generative is actually something I enjoy seeing grow.
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But keep those LLM's in their lane. Which is text generation and
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prediction, code is text. Fine. However _my code_ is not it's lane. My
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code, is mine.
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Yes, yes. It's open source yadda yadda yadda. If you drag out that
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argument I'm closing it.
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I'm okay with LLM's, I'm not okay with GitHub being an LLM thing.
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Because my code is not just an LLM thing.
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> _{*Also, generative AI is boring!*}_
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## Where do I go?
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I won't disappear off GitHub, I've already got a small presence on
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Codeberg and currently mirror that to GitHub, those mirror's will stop.
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I will spread my eggs into multiple baskets, I've created an [tangled.sh
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account](https://tangled.sh/@strawmelonjuice.com) and will soon host my
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own Forgejo instance, with runners.
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{*I'll create README's redirecting you to the new locations! :3*}
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# The ideal medium doesn't exist
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As a 2000s kid, I've seen so many things fly by, I've used them all and
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wow. I've even witnessed things with more wonder in my eyes than any kid
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could have today.
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However, I write software right? So you'd argue this new digital era is
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where I belong. And you're probably right!
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However, as a tech wizz, I also feel a strong dislike for the one stop
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shop we call the cloud... or the phone for that matter. And, in fact,
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streaming and me have a hate love relationship.
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## Accessibility
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Okay, in a world where not everyone can just pop into a mall and visit a
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library (in fact, even I can't anymore, libraries are getting way too
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rare, I'd have to search one!), having Spotify or Netflix or\..(what was
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the ebook service called again?)... it can be useful! It can be very
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nice.
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...but there's a downside. The fact that me and my classmates can just
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download a book means the libraries moved away to denser populated areas
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of the city, and now my grandmother can't visit a library. Hmm.
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> One's accessibility becomes the others inaccessibility.
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This is where "accessibility without accountability" (Is that a good
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quote? No?) becomes a problem. One's accessibility becomes the others
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inaccessibility.
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## The vibes
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### Music
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Next, and I think this one resonates a lot, is... listening to artists
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from your phone is fine for the flashy pop beats or rap songs that are
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trending on TikTok, but for genuine listening moments, more and more
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people prefer... vinyl! It's not super surprising, people want to feel
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their music and on a vinyl record you can physically touch the waves of
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your songs.
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For audiophiles: **original** CD's often offer raw audio quality, that
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could give Tidal a run for their money, and definitely outranks Spotify
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(even with the 2025 lossless update) unfortunately, self-burned CD's
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often are burned from lossy audio and so take up the same kind of space
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for way worse quality (beit with metadata though) than if you'd get it
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from an actual studio.
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P.S. buying CD's and vinyls got me in possesion of multiple songs that
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would later disappear from streaming services, due to legal dispute or otherwise.
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I have them forever, think about that too.
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### Video
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I think this same thing that is happening to music should happen to more
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things, cinemas are AWESOME nowadays (I've recently watched a 5D movie
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and I'm still not recovered wow). Cinemas are MADE for movies. To me the
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old VHS tapes have meaning, and nostalgia, but I am not sure they could
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ever beat digitally downloading (or\.. ugh, fineeee streaming) for
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series. And movies? At home... Oh you should see the power of Blu-Ray on
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that big screen of yours... by the gods, that's some technology there.
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### Books
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Audio books should definitely go onto cassettes. I mean, the way you
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operate a walkman, and the way you keep cassettes is so fitting! Just
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imagine sitting on the metro listening to your favourite book on the
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walkman, being able to copy it, pause as usual, maybe even add comments
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by recording a piece into it (with some equipment we don't even need to
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glue the tape together anymore)! ...And, completely in contrast to the music
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argument, we don't need a perfectly crispy voice, no immersion in the music,
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we need that story, perfectly step-by-step!
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Ugh, I just love the idea. And there's
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more!
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Normal books, should at least stay looking like paper. I like books, I
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also like the idea of an ebook, don't get me wrong, Epubs (the
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downloaded, and offline usable open format) are really great. But keep
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that e-reader. Your phone is fine just being a social media machine,
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keep the ebook apart!
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Keep the vibes intact while innovating is all I want.
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## Even digital files
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And, listen, don't overdo the innovative part. You know a floppy
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diskette? Yes, the save icon? It's big enough to store a single `.docx`
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file. And physically it's big enough to stick a label on it. Allowing
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you to actually physically know which file you stick into your PC. I
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still keep using floppies for personal files, and so did the Japanese
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government until last year, so I'm not crazy for that. With the
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replacement of floppy discs by CD-ROMS, Flash Cards, SD Cards, USB
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sticks and eventually the cloud, we may have won some cabinet space but
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we lost control, and in current days, we should only accept innovations
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that put control in the people's hands, not take it away.
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## I'm old
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So yes, you may just say I'm old (I'm not old, I am literally 22!), but
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I'm sure you do at least agree with a sentence or two here. Mission
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completed, I planted an idea in the masses. Or well I hope so, I just
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can't wait to get my favourite books released on cassette!
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No, no I am joking (am I?), thank you for reading my little rant but no,
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my age makes my message no less important, in fact... _I am_ the future after all.
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Please, buy your albums, buy your books!
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-Mar