July 14, 2017
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Here's what I've been up to:

RETRO

I'm getting close to the 2017.7 release. This will be available
as a source snapshot and an update to the iOS implementation.
It adds:

- floating point supprt
- `f:` namespace for floating point words
- `.` prefix for floating point values
- renames `.s` to `dump-stack`
- includes runtime muri assembler
- adds `set:length`
- adds `n:MIN` and `n:MAX` constants
- fixed a bug in `n:to-string`

Work on the iOS 11 update for RETRO is going well. I've worked
around a few bugs I encountered and am now looking into adding
more functionality.

GOPHER

Gopher for iOS has seen a bugfix release that fixes support for
searches.

I've made `Contrition`, a new search server for Gopherspace
available. It's still gathering data, but based on Veronica-2's
estimates for the total number of selectors should cover about
45% of the Gopherspace currently. I expect to cover 70-80% of
the Gopherspace by the end of the month.

I also began work on a server that translates RSS and HTML into
static Gopher content. This will take considerable time to
finish, but I'm hopeful that it'll let me browse much of the
web through Gopher by fall.

And yesterday I began work on a Gopher client in RETRO on iOS.
This is necessary for some other projects I want to explore:

- code sharing
- gopher-backed block storage
- gopher-backed file storage

OTHER

For my day job, I'm writing an app to generate labels for our
wire randoms. This involves some wireless (bluetooth) interface
to a Brother QL-820NWB printer. Work is slowly progressing on
this.

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