Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Mowing Da Lawn, part II

    As I was mowing the lawn today [1] at Chez Boca, cursing myself for letting it go a few weeks, I was reminded that it wasn't as bad as that one time at Casa New Jersey [2]. I'm thankful for that.

  • The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026)

    There’s a story about enshittification in here somewhere, but they kinda bounce off it in favour of Chekhov’s eligible bachelor and clothes. It’s hard to feel too sad about condescending high-fashion execs getting a reality check. The industry is presented as thoroughly pre-shittified. Maybe the destruction planned by the management consultants would have been only a sideways move. Are we supposed to be cheering for the beast getting a promotion and Andy giving up on her career in real journalism and returning to this superficial world under this horrible boss?

  • Meatballs (1979)

    Ever wanted to see Bill Murray make sexual comments about 14-year-old girls, have a super-groomy personal relationship with a young boy, and then force himself on his maybe-girlfriend, shrugging it off with a just-kidding (and a subtextual /unless..?/)? He does fun pranks and funny tannoy announcements, and there's a fun old fashioned wholesome family camp feel to the movie, and a joke about raping hookers, so I guess the PG rating was given on balance.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Gopher story…

      The Tale of Gopher and the World Wide Web

      Once upon a time, in the vast digital landscape, there was a lonely little Gophe r. He wasn’t the most famous of creatures in the internet kingdom, but he had something special—a deep, underground network that could transport data at lig htning speeds. He lived in his cozy little gopherhole, surrounded by tunnels lea ding to countless treasures: file servers, email archives, and text-based wonder s.

      One day, the Gopher decided to take a trip up to visit his cousin, WWW (World Wi de Web). Now, WWW was a big deal. He was shiny, flashy, full of bright pictures and videos, and everyone knew him. He was the popular kid in the digital world� �the kind that could do everything! He could stream videos, host social media, r un games, and occasionally spill coffee on his motherboard. Everyone loved WWW b ecause, well, he looked great and could do everything without even breaking a sw eat.

    • An RSS experiment

      To keep access to the personal blogs easy, but to quarantine the other feed types a bit, I decided to segment them by RSS app (note: I do most of my feed reading on iOS, so that's the context for this setup).

      For personal blogs, I use the Current RSS reader. It's a beautiful, thoughtful, and calming application that lends itself really well to reading indieweb feeds. It has a pretty neat feature that allows a feed item to be displayed using the native style of the blog it comes from. This isn't something that I enable with every feed, but for sites that provide articles in even a semi-readable style, this can help prevent the aesthetic "flattening" that at times feels like one of the pitfalls of RSS. This app is easily worth the $10 asking price, and I am more than happy to pay for software that demonstrates this level of craftsmanship. I've used Current for about a month and a half now, and it's probably one of my favorite applications. I keep this right on my dock (home bar) and use it every day.