Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Suddenly, it was Spring

    A downside of adding too much friction is that you might then lack input sources of new material to write about [...]

  • Kickbike, an explanantion and why you should care

    I bought a kickbike a few months ago, mainly due to my frustration with traditional bikes.

• Technology and Free Software

  • transience - cgi and inetd

    cgi and inetd still have their place - even here in present day, present time.

    spawning a new process for every single request to a cgi script and/or daemon might sound inefficient, but in this world of lightning-fast servers and ssds, processes can spring to life and finish their work before you can even whisper the first syllable of "fastcgi". and once they're done, they're *done*! no long-term memory consumption! no chance ot state accumulation or resource hogging.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • it just works

      Somewhere in the "postdump" archive page I just added to this capsule, I mention that my rediscovered standard for online tools, sites, etc. is that they must "just work."

      They must just WORK - they must do what I employ them to do.

      They must JUST work - they must not do anything other than what I employ them to do.

      This is vanishingly difficult to get on the Web, I'm discovering.

      I got a much clearer picture of just how hard it is by reading the entire Gemini Protocol FAQ over the past few days (yes, all 25k+ words). Having someone spell out for me exactly what the typical HTML site now does just to show itself to the user made me realize how incredibly porous the Web is.