https://robertismo.com/ Recent content on Robert Ismo's Website Hugo en-us Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:50:35 -0600 https://robertismo.com/journal/dreaded-ssl/ Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:50:35 -0600 https://robertismo.com/journal/dreaded-ssl/ Once again, I have not made a post in ages. At this point beat me LOL. I realize though, I was trying to do journal entries earlier in the day, when really I should wait for the end of the day, when I actually have thoughts. Doing SSL for Femail now. https://robertismo.com/journal/500-miles-by-trey/ Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:00:00 -0600 https://robertismo.com/journal/500-miles-by-trey/ https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles This was an enjoyable read. Reading is actually very fun. EDIT: Another potentially fun read https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cone-of-silence/ https://robertismo.com/blog/email-in-a-week/ Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:37:00 -0600 https://robertismo.com/blog/email-in-a-week/ I am going to keep this short, as I want to do an even longer write up and video about the actually project itself in soon. But, I am public announcing that I am going to undertake an extremely major project over the course of the next week. I am going to build and release a Mail Transfer Agent by Friday, from scratch. Now I am slightly cheating because over the last two months I have built two MTAs and they both had really major flaws and I did not have a good workflow at all. https://robertismo.com/journal/fl-studio/ Fri, 09 Jan 2026 10:05:00 -0600 https://robertismo.com/journal/fl-studio/ I realized I still have an FL Studio License. I have been getting back into it and it has been great to make music again. Of course if you know me, I am big Free Software advocate, so why would I not be using like idk ardour or something? Well this has been a personal introspection, and the FSF might start punching the air lol, but I feel my Free Software advocacy has particularly been against and as opposition to Open Source rather than opposition to proprietary software. https://robertismo.com/journal/saas-is-dead/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 08:55:06 -0600 https://robertismo.com/journal/saas-is-dead/ 40% of all SaaS could be completely cooked if we had friendlier Email infrastructure. Email literally mogs SaaS. Your stupid communication routing software wouldn’t survive granddaddy Email waking up at the wheel! https://robertismo.com/journal/emacs-email/ Wed, 07 Jan 2026 12:15:11 -0600 https://robertismo.com/journal/emacs-email/ I have been somewhat on a journey of furthering my Emacs experience. It’s been 5 years since, I first picked up Emacs, which is kinda crazy to think about in retrospect. Initially, I tried my own config, but then swapped to Doom when I needed a good productive starting point. I was on Doom Emacs and there was a level of integration I still don’t have today. I am happy with my very minimal and zen setup, right now. https://robertismo.com/journal/chez-boot-file/ Mon, 05 Jan 2026 12:35:10 -0600 https://robertismo.com/journal/chez-boot-file/ Happy New Year! Here is my first journal of the new year, I think I will be abandoning the previous schedule I said I was going to do that had the time requirement. It seemed like a reasonable idea at first, but now I am just like I will just time them when they are made, rather than trying to schedule an upload. I have been greatly surprised by the Chez Scheme deployment process, at first I was fighting it as it wasn’t very intuitive for me. https://robertismo.com/journal/while-since-code/ Mon, 29 Dec 2025 01:30:00 -0600 https://robertismo.com/journal/while-since-code/ Due to a variety of factors, including the holidays(Merry Christmas! Christ is born!), I have not programmed in about two weeks. I have a large amount of projects I would like to finish soon. A first release of Super Company , PearHoneyBee Mailing List Software , a new release of ISAA, Deception Labs , and more! https://robertismo.com/journal/scheduling-posts/ Mon, 22 Dec 2025 01:30:00 -0600 https://robertismo.com/journal/scheduling-posts/ I am going to start scheduling my posts to release at 1:30AM. Even though I have not been very good keeping my schedule I set for my self, I want to improve! I think scheduling will help this. https://robertismo.com/journal/isaa-workflow/ Thu, 18 Dec 2025 01:30:00 -0600 https://robertismo.com/journal/isaa-workflow/ I am working on adding some cool new features to my environment, particularly a ‘geeked’ vs ’locked-in’ toggle. Currently, I have a beautiful animated wallpaper and blur effect. However it would be nice to be able to have in a sense a battery saver that turned these features off. This is basically an extension of my previous post. Having a variety of features and services be toggleable is really cool. I think I will also make some scripts to clean up some of my very long isaa commands. https://robertismo.com/journal/mailing-lists/ Wed, 17 Dec 2025 08:00:00 -0600 https://robertismo.com/journal/mailing-lists/ I know I know, I should not be startng any new projects, but I want to start mailing lists and all the gpl options are nightmares, generally email as a whole is a nightmare, but that is a different issue. Don’t let anyone gaslight you into thinking mailman3 is good, and sympa is also so undocumented. Yes, I could put effort into helping these projects, but also I do not want to support the weird python/perl stuff you see in a lot of these old sysadmin type of tools, I am from a different generation! https://robertismo.com/journal/support-projects/ Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:08:56 -0600 https://robertismo.com/journal/support-projects/ This christmas we should all try to send some money or time to free software projects you use or depend on. I think I will make a blog post listing some projects I plan on supporting this holiday season. https://robertismo.com/journal/isaa-system/ Fri, 12 Dec 2025 02:40:56 -0600 https://robertismo.com/journal/isaa-system/ This is really great! I have come to realize that I can use ISAA for even more thinks on my system. Toggling mpvpaper to save battery, replacing waybar for live tinkering, also I want to make more widgets for my system in general, this is getting exciting! https://robertismo.com/journal/zen-emacs/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:48:56 -0600 https://robertismo.com/journal/zen-emacs/ I ever since I got my thinkpad, instead of going for my current emacs setup, you can find it on github, I went for something really different an almost uncomfortable. I now just have a buffer and a somethimes a tab-bar, no modeline, no modeline but on he top instead, I literally don’t even have an indicator for whether the file has been written or not(that will probably change soon). I also have no popups like company, I am using basic completion-at-point when I need it. https://robertismo.com/opinions/frieren-fans/ Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:13:26 -0600 https://robertismo.com/opinions/frieren-fans/ If you like Frieren, you are so valid. I think the show is hot mid, if me saying that wants to make you assume things about my age, loss in life, general emotional maturity, taste in non-action shows, or anything you see on any discussion about not liking frieren, then I would like to ask you to calm it a bit, and I would like to say you make me more critical of the show as a whole. https://robertismo.com/journal/journalling-schedule/ Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:59:36 -0600 https://robertismo.com/journal/journalling-schedule/ I think it is better to be on a schedule of journal/blogging during the weekday rather than trying to keep up a daily schedule including the weekends. I found I wasn’t even hitting that, and seems like no real point. Especially as I have personally been getting schedule together. https://robertismo.com/journal/diving-into-lxc/ Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:04:03 -0600 https://robertismo.com/journal/diving-into-lxc/ Today, I am going to really start diving into Linux Containers. This is a technology that has always interested me. I plan on implementing this into the Ade Bench project. https://robertismo.com/opinions/bleach-top-five/ Mon, 01 Dec 2025 13:56:14 -0600 https://robertismo.com/opinions/bleach-top-five/ Nemu Kurotsuchi Sousuke Aizen Orihime Inoue Ulquiorra Cifer (Maybe higher) Isane Kotetsu (Honorable Mentions): Mayuri Kurotsuchi, Quilge Opie, Hikone Ubuginu https://robertismo.com/journal/worsening-name/ Sun, 30 Nov 2025 20:10:13 -0600 https://robertismo.com/journal/worsening-name/ Two days, ago I made a blog post documenting my feelings about SemVer. It wasn’t anything special, just conveying an idea about version numbering being a lot more opinionated and conveying more to software consumers. Well, I have now released the first version of ISAA to the public, under this alternative versioning system. Therefore, I actually need to name it. If you saw, version numbers are preappended with a literal ‘w’, this is due to the original thought of a name being Temantic Wersioning. https://robertismo.com/blog/semantic-versioning-issue/ Fri, 28 Nov 2025 14:37:31 -0600 https://robertismo.com/blog/semantic-versioning-issue/ Semantic Versioning(SemVer) is a version number system that proposes a simple versioning scheme: v<MAJOR>.<MINOR>.<PATCH>[<ADDITIONAL>](I will prepend a literal v when referring to a SemVer number). Straight from their page: MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes MINOR version when you add functionality in a backward compatible manner PATCH version when you make backward compatible bug fixes An example of a SemVer is v1.11.3, or v0.0.3. What is wrong here? Semantic versioning is pretty good! https://robertismo.com/journal/releasing-software/ Wed, 26 Nov 2025 23:37:50 -0600 https://robertismo.com/journal/releasing-software/ I am going to be release my first bit of general public software tomorrow! ISAA is finished and ready to be sent out into the world. This is kinda nerve-wracking because it is not something I have done before and I know there are a lot of issues with ISAA now(Don’t look at the """ hash """ table lol), but it will be so nice to publicize this. It solved a problem I had, and that is what matters, right? https://robertismo.com/journal/isaa-functional/ Tue, 25 Nov 2025 23:30:22 -0600 https://robertismo.com/journal/isaa-functional/ Since yesterday, I have been full force working on a singleton process manager called Interior Sergeant-At-Arms, ISAA. It is now functional! I can now run a process management daemon that keeps on insance of a process class running at a time, with a variety of strategies. This started as project to get my wofi feeling like how I wanted, and has become something I am now really proud of. Release coming soon. https://robertismo.com/journal/simple-process-manager/ Mon, 24 Nov 2025 21:44:22 -0600 https://robertismo.com/journal/simple-process-manager/ I have been working on a Debian rice recently, it has been going greatly. I have a wofi side menu as an app launcher bound to SUPER+Space like MacOs. I would like to emulate similar behavior here, mainly: The shortcut functioning a toggle for the launcher application. I saw a bunch of stuff online about doing this with an ugly shell command, it didn’t initially work in maomao, so I decided to embark on creating my own solution.