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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

I haven't seen this many butterflies at the same time since I was a child. Don't know it's an unusually good year for them here, or if we just have a more attractive selection of flowers this year. The white one seems to unimaginatively be named a "large […] [Original post on galaxybound.com]

A white butterfly with black markings perched on a leaf, pictured at an angle from behind with its wings partly opened

A brown butterfly with white spots, some with brown rings in them pictured from directly overhead with its wings fully open.

A brown and orange Gatekeeper butterfly with brown markings on a leaf pictures from directly overhead with its wings fully open.

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

#Claude has taken over my machine for the moment, using Firefox to debug my new #Ruby X11 server. It knows to interpret the Firefox logs and crash dumps and has instrumented the server to see exactly what triggers it. It's surprising some of the ways FF […] [Original post on galaxybound.com]

A picture of a screen showing Claude Code in a terminal with a window showing Firefox overlaid

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

#Claude is has now added enough X11 requests to get Firefox to run in our #Ruby X11 server... Ca 1995 dialup rendering speeds, since Ruby is on every hot path including blitting, but it works. 2.1KLOC now. It's obviously never going to be fast without […] [Original post on galaxybound.com]

Firefox rendering BBC News in a pure-Ruby X11 server

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

A #ruby widget set running on a pure-Ruby X11 server (wildly incomplete, only a bitmap buffer and X11 backend for now). This is all Claude's doing for now - I've talked through design choices, but then got it going - it's ~2h worth of Claude churning for the […] [Original post on galaxybound.com]

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

Pure #Ruby font-rendering - now with emojis and scale-perfect box drawing. No FreeType dependency. github.com/vidarh/skrift

A demo of the skrift pure-Ruby font renderer showing various rendered text, box-drawing characters and emoji are rendered correctly.

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 26/12/2025

Sunrise ca 9.15am, in Lillestrøm, Southern Norway, obscured in part by a smokestack. #Photos #photography

Sunrise over urban winter landscape with a smoke stack partially obscuring the sun

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 10/11/2025

Meanwhile, this guy took advantage when I took a break from clearing the front garden and took possession of my garden glove. It proceeded to try to eat the red piece of plastic. Could hardly be bothered to move when I got closer, and finally hid in the […] [Original post on galaxybound.com]

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 10/11/2025

If my fibre connection breaks, I know who to blame... (I have a backup; it's not as attractive to sit on) #london #photography #birds

Three ring-necked parakeet, two sitting next to each other on a wire attached to the roof, and one peering out from over the roof.

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2025

This little guy got to within 30cm or so of me, and kept coming back. That's my house behind; I was just going out for a walk and ended up standing there taking pictures for 10 minutes before I even got onto the street. #photography #birds

A close-up of a European robin facing the left sitting on a tree in front of a house.

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2025

Oh, goody, it appears the parrots might be nesting right next to where my new fibre connection attaches to the walls, and it appears to be their plaything. Given OpenReach has still not fixed my damn Sky connection, 6 weeks later, they better not break […] [Original post on galaxybound.com]

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2025

A parakeet in London. This guy and another one were sitting in a tree, enjoying an ample supply of berries and throwing the pits at the ground. #london #photography

A green parakeet "hiding" in a tree full of red berries while chomping down on them

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

Better weather, and a parakeet outside my office window again earlier this week. #photography #animals #birds #london

A green parakeet on a phone wire against a blue sky

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

FYI, not happy to be back to this, after my holiday. (one of the windows in my office right now)

A view out of a window where you can barely see the outlines of a house and a back garden through massive amounts of rain.

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

Another deer in Nara. This guy was extremely chill, like all of them, as long as you didn't have biscuits. You *really* did not want to be seen with a biscuit in your hand, though. They'd watch your hands. Put your hands in your pockets, and they'd pay […] [Original post on galaxybound.com]

A deer buck standing on a paved road, looking toward the camera, with a bunch of people walking past behind him.

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

Cikada above the stairs up to the Chureito Pagoda in Arakurayama Sengen park in Fujiyoshida where we went primarily for the views of Fuji. I'd never seen them before - just heard the incessantly loud noise. I'd have missed this one too if not for someone […] [Original post on galaxybound.com]

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

Fuji butterfly. This was on the walk up to the Chureito Pagoda in the Arakurayama Sengen park. We got spectacular views of Fuji from there, but also this guy (and a cikada, which I'll also post a picture off when I find it). I figured I'd post it since I'd […] [Original post on galaxybound.com]

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

Shinjuku, Tokyo, at night. I try to take photos that aren't all just the stereotypical tourist photos when I travel, but this one is very much super-touristy. By chance, one of my current clients has a photo that is from *this exact location* on their […] [Original post on galaxybound.com]

A busy street scene from Shinjuku, Tokyo, at night, showing an abundance of colorful lit up signs, and a bunch of tourists.

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

Tokyo butterfly. In a back street just a couple of blocks from Akihabara. We only saw a handful of butterflies while in Japan, and I ran after every one to try to get photos. This one was the only one I spotted in Tokyo (granted we only spent time in some of […] [Original post on galaxybound.com]

A light yellow and black butterfly sitting on a bush against a backdrop of a grey building.

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

Deer casually strolling back towards the deer park in Nara. Looks cute. After having bought cookies for them, you'll know better. The vicious bastards *chased me* and nibbled on my clothes until I'd relinquished the last cookie and proven I was out by […] [Original post on galaxybound.com]

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2025

Asakusa, Tokyo at night. One of the most fascinating things to me about visiting Tokyo was the messy wiring everywhere, and especially when contrasted with things like traditional-looking street lighting. #photography #japan

A city scene with messy electricity poles at the front, and signs in Japanese behind, with focus on a string of (electric) "lanterns"

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2025

Parakeets and pigeons sharing a feeding station outside a house in Brockley, South London #photography #london

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2025

You might have to be a former AmigaOS user to get why this is enormously pleasing. Screenshot shows my Ruby shell in my Ruby terminal on my Linux box, with the AmigaOS-like "assign" and "implicit cd" support. (the shell is very primitive - it will shell out […] [Original post on galaxybound.com]

A screenshot showing a command "assign" in a terminal that assigns aliases, such as "assign desktop: ~/Desktop" and "assign projects: desktop:Projects", and how those get resolved when entering just the paths, as well as an "assign list" command that lists the currently assigned aliases.

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2025

It's not there yet, but my application-server-come-orchestrator now uses ActivityPub to synchronise multiple instances across physical servers (with some caveats and optional extensions). The (incomplete) orchestration support is a thin layer on top of a […] [Original post on galaxybound.com]

Screenshot of a user-interface that shows a list of Docker containers, and "Server" column that indicates that the list comes from two different servers.

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2025

Came across this chunky guy on my walk last night. This is the third time in 2-3 weeks I've walked past random cats in this area sitting on garden walls, seemingly waiting for passers-by to cuddle them, miaowing to get attention to make sure they're not […] [Original post on galaxybound.com]

A tabby cat sitting on a garden wall, leaning forward, with his head tilted downward, while being petted on the back.

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2025

Much less zoom than you think. He seemed rather miffed that I didn't provide any nuts, and seemed to debate whether to come closer to verify, and kept coming back seemingly hoping I'd come to my senses and feed him. #photography

A close-up of a grey squirrel, one three feet, with one paw up, looking straight at the camera.

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2025

Parakeets outside my office window. They were at war with the magpies for a while but came back. (And no, these are not likely to be escaped pets - there have been sporadic sightings of parakeets in the UK for a long time, but in recent decades they've […] [Original post on galaxybound.com]

3 parakeets in the city. Two in flight and one sitting on a wire.

A green and yellow parakeet sitting on a wire, leaning toward the left. Tail feathers spread and lit up by the sun.

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2025

Central London from Forest Hill. You can see the London Eye with the old BT Tower behind it right above the lamppost to the left, and the Shard above one of the chimneys, with the City to the right. #london #photography

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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound @vidar.m.galaxybound.com.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2025

Another instance of my favorite Norwegian term. The headline "Det er helt Texas" means "It's entirely/completely Texas", or less literally "It's completely crazy". For more on the Norwegian adoption of "Texas" as a synonym for crazy […] [Original post on galaxybound.com]

A screenshot from a newspaper with the headline and lede:

"- Det er helt Texas
Innbyggerne på Senja uttrykker bekymring etter flere hendelser der biler med turister har kjørt av veien eller skapt farlige situasjoner."

With a picture of a car that's stuck in snow after driving off the road.

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