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Well the parts for my laptop arrived and I did the swap. It wasn't trivial but it wasn't too hard. Part of me thought that maybe I only needed to replace the input cover and everything else could be pulled or banged back into shape but a) probably not and b) this is my main computer and it's worth bringing it back to working order.
Did a couple of Mastodon upgrades. Helix is working out okay, still. Restarting on Rust.
One thing that's been on my mind is https://wiki.c2.com/?AlternateHardAndSoftLayers . This way of building applications is one of the first that I started with -- using a limited dynamic language as the glue for a faster/more-static codebase. I used AOLserver (C + TCL). PHP, in a way, was a dumb language for stitching together a bunch of C code. It wasn't really expected you would write that much code in PHP (or TCL).
At some point, perhaps around the invention of Rails, we seemed to switch to the idea that your dynamic language could do it all. Then we ended up with template languages written in scripting languages, like Smarty. An even softer layer.
Anyway, to get back on track: I had been thinking that mixing Steel (a Rust Scheme) with Rust web development could enable something fun and dynamic without forcing me to do everything in the world in Scheme. Aesthetically I miss things which treat HTML and JSON as a tree structure natively -- something Scheme is pretty good for.
Then I randomly decided to look at Phlex, a Ruby DSL / library for HTML and it uses blocks to write HTML. It's pretty close to what I was thinking of, with the advantage of already existing.
The serial console thing for Colocataires nears completion. In the homelab; a dread Ceph cluster slumbers.