Gemini Links 25/01/2025: Plaintext Weblog Posts and Software Development
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Personal/Opinions
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(Mudai)/Guiano
My dream is to sing a song with my guitar in hand, and with that song, I'd hope for happiness. Whether you're crying, whining, or laughing, it feels like you're quietly watching over me from right by my side. Like a mother and father's gentle song, whether I'm crying or whining, I feel like I can keep laughing.
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the thrills of old music!
billy murray, ada jones, arthur collins, byron harlan, the american quartet, jane green, dolly kay, and so many more to be named, and how wonderful it is that i can listen to their tunes at a click of a button, in the comfort of my home!
all the names i have listed, their recordings span from the 1890s to the 1920s. they are all long dead, yet their names and legacy still carry on, every time i listen to them through my computer or my mp3 player. i preserve their songs by writing them down in a notebook, complete with chords for to play on my ukulele. this way, i can ensure that they shan't be lost, that they shan't be forgotten. i love it. i love it so much.
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I'm not dead I swear
I'm just exhausted and what even was 2024; and also I don't have a lot to put on here atm, because I've hardly written any more flash fiction and my minizines have, I think, grown too big file-size-wise.
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Politics and World Events
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Upaya: The central pedagogical principle of Buddhism
At the heart of the Buddhist tradition, especially Mahayana, is the concept of *upaya* or "skillful means". This principle reflects the Buddha's and Bodhisattvas' ability to adapt their teachings to the needs, capacities and situations of their listeners, and to guide them towards enlightenment. However, *upaya* is not just a pedagogical tool; it is deeply intertwined with core Buddhist principles such as karma and rebirth, which the Buddha used as instruments to enlighten the minds of sentient beings.
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The National Association of Youth Justice (NAYJ)
A UK campaign group which fights for the rights of children who have legal problems. For a lot of these children their parents are too messed up or negligent to help them and once in a system whose failings are all too well known then a lifetime of criminality starts to become inevitable.
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Technology and Free Software
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Internet/Gemini
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Plaintext Weblog Posts
I use sourcehut pages for both my gemini and website. It is a simple, great service where you don't need to worry about managing a server.
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First post
Because the new web has been killed by all the companies wanting to centralize and control it, and AI will fill the void with fake users and fake comments. I could have created a site on any WordPress host but I don't want to encourage the bad practices that led us to this situation.
Gemini feels like a mix of the very old web and the good old web, and that's something I might enjoy. As for "gemtext," despite its limitations, it is a good way to focus on the content itself. And if a feature is missing (like numbered lists, *italics*, or **bold text**), nothing actually prevents us from borrowing syntax from other languages like [reStructuredText] even if it's not officially parsed.
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Programming
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Software Development and the Bullshit of Big Ideas
I worked in private industry for more than fifteen years, and one of the things I learned early was all the big bullshit ideas by all the big companies roll downhill. At my first place, things were typically passed around via email. The CDO would send an email to all the developers, pass along what he was reading. Sometimes it was a link to Joel on Software. Sometimes it was Myers-Briggs (aka astrology for executives). The content changed, but the idea was always the same: read this, do this. Here's a better way to do things.
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