Gemini Links 21/05/2025: "Shrimps of Doom" and "ASCII-graphs"
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Personal/Opinions
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Technology and Free Software
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A Call for Help - ZIM File Expertise
For quite a while now, I have made my gemini capsule and website collectively available for offline browsing via a ZIP file. That certainly works for what my goal is of "allow anyone who visits my site to grab everything and browse offline if they wish". Another system that fulfills that goal is ZIM files with Kiwix.
If someone happens to know how to generate ZIM files from a ZIP file, or otherwise might know an easy enough way for me to scrape my site or ZIP file to create the ZIM file, I would love to hear from you. This is especially the case if there is a way you happen to know where I can modify a ZIM file to update only modified files. Either way, I am at stage 0 of building a ZIM file of my site, so anything that builds a ZIM file is further progress than I have succeeded on.
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Our Game-Jam-Game: Shrimps of Doom
As we've just published our first playable version of the game "Shrimps of Doom" I thought I could tell you a little story about how this game was build and what the experience of a game jam looks like. Of course I also wanted to invite you to play the game after this article ;)
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ASCII-graphs
To completely get rid of HTTP and Nginx, I decided to put Monitorix graphs in gemini pages, in ASCII. And not just any old way, but in Braille, because I like it. While digging around the Internet, I found a couple of interesting ascii tools: [...]
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