Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 05 August 2025

    We spend our Sunday at the Opel Zoo near Frankfurt and junior had an absolute blast there. I swear, he was running every minute we were there!

    The zoo in itself is absolutely worth a visit, it has big enclosures with plenty of space for the various animals and has a really nice, family friendly atmosphere.

    My "digital detox" or "smol august" is going good so far: I mostly spend time offline or getting some updates via gopher or RSS, spend time reading more paper books... so far so good. It helps a bit that i have plenty to do recently and that we finally found a way to get junior somewhat consistent to bed before 9 pm. He is now in an age where he starts to like having stories read to him, so we do that (mostly german and vietnamese fairy tales) and it works!

  • wool shawl

• Technology and Free Software

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Embedding my currently playing song in my Bluesky description

      I've been thinking about adding last.fm integration to my site for a while now, but I've never been able to fit it with the style. It's really just not a great thing for my website, because most of my online "personality" is on bsky(1), so I decided to put it on my bsky profile.

    • cookbook

      My take on small web solutions is driven by two key ideas, statically generated text content and distributed ownership based on a consistent format.

      The gemlog format, which is primarily concerned with the log index with entries following

      => some_path.gmi yyyy-mm-dd some title

    • All The News Fit To Print

      Alhena 5.2.5 dropped yesterday. It has support for printing (and therefore PDFs). There's optional favicon.txt support for the many sites that have them. Did I mention favicon.txt is optional?

      If this is the first time you've heard of Alhena, it's a multi-platform Gemini client written in a memory safe language with features you won't find elsewhere: [...]