Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • What's the Second-Most Important Thing?

    It is easy to be able to know someone by asking what the most important principle they hold is. Or perhaps what is the most important object, or most important relationship or whatever other thing is for them.

    I feel, though, that you can learn even more about someone by asking them, "What's the second-most important thing in your life?" By only focusing on the apex of importance, you know about what they value the most. However, when you add a qualification, not only is it relatively easy to surmise what the most important thing for them is, but also what they find slightly less important. Now, of course, it goes with the qualification that they have to tell you why it is not the most important.

  • 🔤SpellBinding: AFIMRSY Wordo: PRIMO

  • 🖼️ xkcd: Mantle Model #3141

• Technology and Free Software

  • Bash Golf Part 4

    This is the fourth blog post about my Bash Golf series. This series is random Bash tips, tricks, and weirdnesses I have encountered over time.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Using edbrowse

      Within the past few days, I've been trying to use edbrowse more and more. Why? Because it can do a whole lot of stuff. Even the latest release, 3.8.9, can do IRC. It also does mail, file modification, etc. That's a lot. And it would be all in one interface.

      The "problem," as it were, is that it is very sparse on unofficial documentation and text, ironically. What do I mean? I mean you can go to sites and not read everything. The reason I had previously decided to stick with Lynx + Links2 + Vivaldi is because the JS engine fails on a lot of pages, reading a page is actually a bit cumbersome as it requires using z to spit out text and the "normal" way of other browsers displaying text is to type ,n which will spit out all the text...and leave you with the last n lines viewable in the console depending on height and width of the console. You can't really scroll or easily access the entire document. In my opinion, that is a major negative.

    • Lagrange Turns 5

      Today marks the fifth anniversary of the first release of Lagrange.

      Five years is quite a hefty chunk of time! While the first couple of years saw rapid development, recently the app has been stabilizing, the monthly releases turning into yearly ones. Save for some lingering bugs that still avoid capture, the slowing of the pace is right and proper. Gemini is not a moving target so there isn't a continual need to bolt on new features. The focus is now squarely on improving the features that are already there — particularly the ones that never advanced far beyond the initial Minimum Viable stage.

    • Lagrange 1.19.2 released

      Today marks the fifth anniversary of the initial release of Lagrange! 🎉 To celebrate, I'm releasing a new patch for 1.19. This will be the 131st tagged version of the app. You can find version 1.19.2 and Android Beta 43 in the Git repositories, and 1.19 (3) on TestFlight.

    • no internet sunday

      i had my first no internet sunday last week and i have to say it was great. so much so, i'm considering doing multiple days a week, or at least half-days? i caught up on many home tasks and neglected chores. i read a lot, almost the entire time i wasn't jobbing. did spend an hour on a hard sudoku (joint effort with partner). and got a big start on a tarot project (adding silver elements to the shadowplay tarot, now finished). there was the eclipse and the reflection and tarot reading about it. how much of that was impacted by the day of just being with myself without interference?