Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Another Smol Journal: Ψ-Field Strategies

    📡 Soften the border — see what bleeds through.

  • Roses along the way

    I went for a walk and found a lot of rose-like flowers (and others). I want to illustrate the struggle with the Flora Incognita app because you can’t just take its output and “believe”. But in order to question the details one has to know them – and I usually do not, when it comes to flowers. So I’m left wondering.

  • quiet

    Not having an abundance of local libraries, the next best thing is our local bookshop. I walk down there with one child on their bike or else both of them in the stroller. They are currently two and four and its just over a kilometer each way. Wheels of some sort ensure a more enjoyable journey. Both do the walk singly with me, but the probability of disaster increases exponentially when number of children increases and mode of transport is not chosen carefully.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Species: Dat Ecosystem

    Genus: New developments and ideas from the Dat Ecosystem

  • Got the 8bit bug

    Last weekend my wife and oldest kid were off at a birthday party for one of her friends. The youngest and I were left at home to clean. To try and get him motivated to pick things up I turned on some music. Sadly he is not as big a fan of the 60-90's as his older sister is. Flipped through a few genres until I found something that got him exicted. 8bit Chip Tunes!!!

    He was excited to pretend he was in a retro game (he is a big Pokemon, Mario, and SNES fan). Found a chip tune radio station on YT and whenever he heard a song he liked he ran over to read the name and we added it to a playlist.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Monitorix Gemini-Frontend

      Some 0.0.1-version. Now I have a Gemini page with automatically updating metric charts! They look approximately like this

    • Networks Everywhere

      The following entry is transcribed from a notebook (the paper kind) I took with me on a trip to the Internet Archive Canada in Vancouver last week. I was there to attend a session entitled "In Honour of Canadian Web Preservation" which turned out to be interesting in ways that I didn't expect and am still processing. But this isn't about that; it's a rumination on a Solderpunk's most recent post about bike messengers [1], and how it relates (in my head) to a recently published book by Lori Emerson [2].

    • Simplification

      I recently went back to mutt for email. It was a bit to set up, but I've now been using it for a couple months, and I haven't really been back into Thunderbird at all.

      Mutt is a terminal-based mail reader—no graphics! Most mail can be rendered to text at an acceptable level, and I have a way to view HTML mails in the browser if I have to. It works, but it's a compromise.

    • small web

      I have always stuck to an html or html/css only web presence, I take great delight in an even more paired back digital experience. There is something wonderful about sane defaults and focusing on content. As a result I intend to migrate the majority of my web presence to gemini space, and operating a proxy to it for the unintiatied.

      I stumbled across the world of gemspace via an openbsd mailing list, in which a user praised openbsd and mentioned some new fangled presentation something called gemini. I was curious.