Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • No Not Nothing

    So... I have this pending draft. I am making some use out of this :-) .

    This may already be familiar to you, but, I am explaining what "no", "not", and "nothing" are. As a native of a non-English-speaking country, this never has been properly explained to me. This subject is not that obvious, because in Portuguese (my native language), and probably in other languages too, there is no difference between a "no" and a "not". We only have one word for these two words.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Git For Authors (v0.0.1, 2025-07-19)

    According to my logs, it was 2012 when I switched my writing from using various binary formats (Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, LibreOffice) and switched to writing purely in text formats. There was a lot of reasons for this switch, but there was two major reasons: corruption and source control.

    Corruption was the original reason. I don't know why, but my Word documents corrupted on a weekly basis. OpenOffice was monthly. It got worse when there were a lot of images or when I had the entire novel in a single document, I would inevitable have to write something because the file wouldn't open. (There is also some evidence that when I get upset, computers crash around me.)

  • Internet/Gemini

    • filtered antenna

      Enjoy using the antenna aggregator to catch up on what people are writing in geminispace (shame it doesn't also do other small webs).

      I'd seen the link at the bottom to filer the feed but never looked into it. It's a rather elegant solution to create a unique URL that includes the feed with anything you'd rather skip filtered out. My particular use case is removing the auto generated aggregations which felt like noise compared to things people are actually hand crafting. It reliably gets the daily posts below 10.