Week 162: It gets worse before it gets better

I spent most of last week curled up under a blanket. I’m not a person who likes to sit around doing nothing, but I really have done an awful lot of nothing. I don’t have a fever. It’s just a cold, but a pernicious one. It’s definitely worse than the time I had covid, which gave me only a couple of days of mild discomfort.

I am at last getting a bit better. I’ve been up and doing things, and I went for a walk around the local area on Sunday, albeit at a noticeably slower pace than usual.

I’ve been reading magazines on my Kindle thanks to a discussion on the Linux Matters podcast. If you have a card for a library that uses Libby, you can install the Overdrive Libby plugin in Calibre and pull a magazine down to a local ePub file. This doesn’t work with my Southwark Libraries card, but that’s why I have other library memberships. Lewisham works.

It’s a bit complicated at first, but worth figuring out.

A few links:

• Rebecca Solnit: How to Comment on Social Media. I particularly enjoyed the bit about bicycles.
• LittleGPTracker is a tracker for handheld games consoles.
• topaz-unicode is an expanded TrueType port of the original Amiga system font.
• Manny’s Modulation Manifesto: Intro to FM Synthesis. The first article in a series on programming FM sounds.
• SMS Power! is a Sega 8-bit development community.
• gbdev.io is a Game Boy development community.