Reviewing July 2024
At the end of June and in the first part of July, I resumed working on my old idea of a conlang inspired by Toki Pona, Lojban, and Polynesian languages. I decided to name it Faeke, and I spent a lot of time looking at Samoan, Maori, Tahitian, and Hawaiian dictionaries to build the root words of the language. It was fun! I'm now freezing the conlang to try making sentences with what I have for a while, and next time I'll build a little website introducing an alpha version of Faeke.
After that, I had a great time with shortwave radio on my RTL-SDR. I put a long wire between the garden shed and a tree and could listen to a lot of stations from America, Africa, and Asia. I had not done this in many years, and it was a surprise to hear China broadcasting from so many frequencies.
I also experimented again with a tin can gasifier stove for my green tea break late in the afternoon. It's interesting to boil hot water with just a few twigs without producing any smoke once the stove gets going.
Not much coding; it felt a bit like a summer holiday at home.