Gemini* and Gopher

• Technology and Free Software

  • Being a good robot 🤖

    Trying to be a good geminaut, the bot fetches robots.txt in order to respect capsule owners' wishes. Today I found bugs.

  • PPM image format

    The PPM image format is an evolution of the PBM which was monochrome, PPM has RGB colors.

  • This Throwback VR Headset Uses Sony Watchman CRTs as Its Displays

    Pseudonymous maker "dooglehead" has built a self-confessed "terrible VR headset," which throws back to the earliest attempts at the technology by swapping out the usual high-resolution flat-panel liquid-crystal displays (LCDs) or organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) for cathode-ray tubes (CRTs).

    "Modern VR headsets are really good, but they all use LCD and OLED displays," dooglehead explains of the project's inspiration. "I've always found there to be something appealing about playing games on CRTs, and I've been wondering what it would be like to be in a virtual world where everything in my field of view is made up of images drawn on CRTs."

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Advance notice of OFFLFIRSOCH 2026

      Smol friends! The third annual Offline-First Software Challenge begins on the 1st of March, which is two weeks away from today. There is a small wrinkle this year in that I will be travelling for most of the second half of February and most of the first half of March. I will have very limited access to all the usual tooling that lets me "be Solderpunk" during that time. I

    • Advance notice of OFFLFIRSOCH 2026

      Smol friends! The third annual Offline-First Software Challenge begins on the 1st of March, which is two weeks away from today. There is a small wrinkle this year in that I will be travelling for most of the second half of February and most of the first half of March.