i'm purple, or jan Okasi [etymology: toki pona: "o" "kasi"] (❗🌱).
things i like to do:

• ride motorcycles in a Totally Normal Manner™
• play ttrpg & pc game
• watch for uap/ufo
• shitpost perl & kubernetes
• systemsmith
• toki pona, a!
• actual photography
• install pkgsrc on weird platforms (Chimera Linux)
• host services for my friends & the public

• pimeja
• sitelen sitelen
• https://blinry.org/toki-pona-cheat-sheet/
• https://theepicosity.github.io/lipu-pi-ijo-pi-toki-pona/
• https://jansa-tp.github.io/linja-pi-pu-lukin/ https://jansa-tp.github.io/
• nimi ale pona
• "toki pona ASCII syllabary"

i recently built a static site generator with perl to make maintaining this site more fun. it is now at 1.0 and has been released! this is your only warning!!

site last generated at: 2026-09-01T00:35:43Z

ttrpg:

i'm currently looking for a play-by-post or tabletop simulator game. i prefer d20-likes but want to try other stuff.

long forgotten esoteric knowledge

#transposes utf8 characters to full width text
alias fw="perl -pC -e'y# !-~#\N{U+3000}\N{U+FF01}-\N{U+FF5E}#'" #53 bytes

#transcodes INPUT video to something tiny but preserving the audio
ffmpeg -i INPUT.avi -c:v libx264 -profile:v high -preset veryslow -r 25 -s 480x640 -b:v 1000k -minrate 500k -maxrate 2500k -bufsize 5000k -threads 0 -movflags +faststart -c:a copy -f mp4 OUTPUT.mp4

#losslessly splice out the first five minutes of a video
ffmpeg -t 05:00 -i INPUT.mp4 -c copy OUTPUT.mp4

#losslessly concatenate some videos
cf=$(mktmp) ; echo -e "file INPUT_1.mp4\nfile INPUT_2.mp4" > $cf
ffmpeg -f concat -i $cf -c copy OUTPUT.mp4 && rm $cf

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