April 9 2019 technology progress update

A couple years I laid out these technology goals. Let's see how I did:

- Email address on own domain ([email protected])

- Personal computer with free software operating system

- Phone running free software operating system

- seamless phone/laptop interoperability, such as working on projects from phone and making calls from computer

- ability to bend time in space, insofar as sending texts with delay is bending time and space

- activity log, such as “I did set this alarm”

- Domain name registration that is more intuitive and cheaper than namecheap

- Editable personal wiki

- Less addictive twitter by not autoloading. wow it’s easy to get sucked in

- Personal cloud services, though right now I trust keybase and github for cloud storage

- Email address on own domain ([email protected])

I have this, but it's not everything I hoped it would be. I signed up for a paid plan on protonmail.com, and it turns out gmail has quite a few niceties, and behaviors that my protonmail lacks.

The keyboard shortcuts are different, the keyboard navigation is lacking in general. j and k do not work, and it's too much of a hassle to navigate through email without them. I kept my gmail address and it's still chugging; not I have 2 email inboxes to check, and a vague notion of what I expect to find in one inbox versus the other.

Also space selects the current message, rather than scrolling down.

The ui loads slowly with an animation that I thought was cool but now I'm tired of seeing.

I'm actually going to see if I can get the frontend running locally, right now, timeboxed to 25 minutes.