Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)

    Choosing a movie for my wife and I can sometimes be a battle. So we have this set of cards designed to help set up a date night, and there are ones for movies. It gives you a very specific category to pick from.

    Last night we picked: The movie must be set in the place where you had your last vacation. Our last vacation was our honeymoon, and we went to Savannah, Georgia. It was delightful to find out that this movie by Clint Eastwood is actually somewhat about Savannah.

• Technology and Free Software

  • RPG gazetteers, I belatedly forgive them

    When I first saw gazetters I was frustrated as all heck with them. They to me seemed like unplayable nonsense. “In this part of Eberron the hobbits ride dinosaurs” gee thanks! [Where is the game!] That’s how I felt.

    I was overwhelmed. I didn’t wanna learn a bunch of stuff before we could even get going. That’s why I loved wainscot settings like Feng Shui or World of Darkness; you could just start playing because it was basically a world similar to ours. And that’s one of the reasons we got into Magic, because you learn the setting card by card, no need to study beforehand.

    And then when the OSR came around with it’s table-driven city books and its location-specific bottom-up campaign books like the Trilemma Adventures compendium, I was in heaven!

  • Businesses are bad at the fundamentals

    I'm still amazed at the state of modern businesses, particularly with how reliant they are upon Software as a Service (SaaS) tools for the most basic things. It reminds me of a sketch I once saw where a person goes to a store to buy things for... something. I don't remember. The person picks up expensive and unnecessary items, justifies that they definitely need them, and put them in their cart.

    Then they're surprised at the cost.

    This is what it feels like whenever I look at the ridiculous array of tools modern companies have and how many of them do the exact same things with maybe a slightly different coat of paint.

  • We have a team for HTB!

    Hola! Happy Hacking to all hackers, DIY, Creators and tinkers out there.

    - This month we put together a team, for now mostly for educational means, so I get them up to speed, as a refresh to some of them and as a learning process to others, and a mix to all of us, I also need a small refresh since I did not had time to play, because of the new job since last January.

  • Man pages

    Here's a great thing on the command line. You want to use the command **foo** and don't know how, so you run **man foo** and read the manual page. Sometimes there will be more info in different "sections". Commands are in section 1, which is why documentation would sometimes refer to the command "foo" as **foo(1)** because **foo(5)** might document the file format or the config file that goes along with the command.

    If that's news to you, run **man man**. And if you find the structure bewildering, read the manual on how to write manual pages: **man man-pages** (section 7).

    I've embraced man pages because when I write Perl code, I can put documentation into the script such that when the script is installed, it automatically works as its own man page – this works for jupiter, bookmark-feed – it also works for bigger projects, like phoebe where each extension is also a Perl module and therefore also gets its own man page.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • coffeeeeee

      irc is fun. lurk in and out. Google Fi is still terrible with tethering, haven't diagnosed Port 22/SSH issue. Apparently by putting my SSH key with a domain (such as user@domain.com) instead of user@xx.xx.xx.xx (ip) that fixes the issue, but I haven't, yet.