Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • No Oceans Left

    It's from "A Thousand Kisses Deep," on the album "Ten New Songs" released back in 2001. Cohen had been working on the lyrics for a while before that though; there are recorded and published versions dating back to at least the mid-90s. One of them appears on the the "Leonard Cohen Files" site, quite different from what eventually became the official, recorded version.[1] The earliest versions are about love and betrayal - well-trodden ground for Cohen - and about how aging makes a mockery of physical love. But the version that appeared on the album strips most of that away, and what remains is harder to parse but seems to me more about aging and loss, and that line in particular about how the world changes around you as you get older, so that the world you grew up in, the world that you adapted to and were part of, eventually ceases to exist.

  • Lament of Smoke

    Woe! For the sun rises red in the morning.

    Woe! For the sky is pale at noon.

    Woe! For the sun, setting, is dim as the moon.

    Woe! For the air tastes bitter.

  • Cacknot

• Technology and Free Software

  • The in-person productivity fallacy

    Studies upon studies, suggests that in-person work lead to "improved productivity". However, as usual, entities doing such studies never show the data backing those up and almost never mentions the amount of productivity gains by mandating an RTO (Return To Office) policy. To try to explain why I believe the narrative from companies, loosers and politicians alike, is hiding a different story, I'll start from a personal experience.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • NNCP setup automation

      This is a continuation of the minimal NNCP setup to get started. Once we verified that everything works as expected with manual invocations, the next step is automation.

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      In order to conserve resources, you could decide not to have these services running all the time. I'm doing this for two reasons: I don't want to upgrade the virtual machine I'm renting. It's a point of pride to do much with very little. From the perspective of impeding collapse, I also think that we should all get on board with frugal computing (@wim_v12e@scholar.social).

    • my gemlog is now a recfile

      It took a couple years, but I have now "engineered" my gemlog.

      One thing I used to enjoy about writing in my gemlog is that there was no build step. I just wrote gemtext (oh and also manually updated the feed.. and the index..) and then uploaded it to a server. Beautiful. Simple. Elegant.

      I honestly really do love how gemtext bridges the divide between markdown and html. It is neither. And it eliminates the need for both. It feels great to write text in a very minimal, nearly non-existant markup and then just have that be what the client and the server both natively support.

    • Updates to my Atom web feed

      The article "My gemlog is now a recfile" by dozens inspired me to do some updates to my feed generation scripts.