Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🔤SpellBinding: EILMOZP Wordo: TENDS

  • hello, pub!

    I've heard about the place from a friend and got a key a while ago but I didn't quite have the time nor the energy to properly "enter" the place. After a completely sleepless night, I've garnered up the energy to finally sit down for some good tea. Probably not the usual drink for a pub but I don't feel like drinking this early in the morning :p

    I'm normally a LaTeX kind of guy (I like my fancy symbols) but I also find plain-text to have a lot of character in itself.

• Politics and World Events

  • Save our children!

    It is in this context that Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of Telegram, was recently arrested and charged with several alleged crimes, despite the fact that Telegram is neither a French company nor are its servers physically located on French territory -- the only nexus being Durov, formerly a Russian citizen who fled Putin's dictatorship, a French citizen.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Re: why we bear our souls on gopher

    Yesterday I saw a mention by prahou on IRC, pointing to a phlog post by Tekk [1].

    The phlog post is titled "Why we bear our souls on gopher". It is posted in the directory "drunk".

    It is a lovely phlog post that you must read.

    Tekk describes that the Gopher sphere is a intimate environment, more softer.

  • Music

    • Dim7

      A diminished seventh is pretty useful as the phrase can then go off lots of different ways, on account of the chord being a stack of minor thirds. No major third to help indicate anything. There's only three of them (assuming Western 12-tone, etc) as you loop back to the "C E-flat F-sharp A" flavor after the ones that include C-sharp or D. If you're aiming for more consonance sustain and then step into the chord with other voices, e.g. hold C and E-flat from a previous chord then move to include F-sharp and A which aren't really part of C minor. Well maybe the A is if you're running up A B C in that version of a minor key, but F-sharp A probably moreso implies V/V (dominant of the dominant) by way of D F-Sharp A which is the dominant of G B D which is the dominant of the tonic C E-flat G. Or in other words part of the C-minor tonic glued together with part of the G-something Dominant, if you're thinking harmonically, but you could also take a horizontal view where two or more of the notes just accidentally form a diminished seventh on their way to and from elsewhere.

  • Programming

    • Pastebin and file dropper server on Codeberg

      During the 2024 edition of the Old Computer Challenge, I started building a self hosted pastebin and file dropper service, aimed at text mode web browsers like eww, lynx and links.

      Today I published the code on Codeberg [1].

      The service uses pure HTML and HTML forms, no JavaScript, and is called `Hunchbin'. It is build upon Hunchentoot, the Common Lisp web server.

    • Liminal Times, and A Light at The End of The Tunnel

      I think I'm done with programming.

      OK, not entirely. I am *incredibly* proud of Benben and how it's turned out, and I plan to continue making it better and supporting the libraries that go along with it. I also plan to support a few other things that I've made, to a lesser degree.

      I'm also done with Doom/Quake mapping. Again, not entirely. I may make the occasional one-off Doom map going forward (or maybe a ROTT map), but they'll be far and few between, and probably all for Doomsday Engine. It's just not where my heart lies anymore.