Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🔤SpellBinding: ADGURSL Wordo: YAWED

  • September books

    Let's see what we got this month.

    First one was "Ostfriesennebel" by Klaus-Peter Wolf. A German book, set in Germany. Pretty weird to read about cities that I've been in. The story itself was quite okay, I think, I just prefer something that doesn't hit so "close to home" (quite literally). It's a lot like music: I usually don't like music with German lyrics, either, it's just too fa- miliar. It doesn't really inspire fantasy as much.

    Then I dug up "Choke" by Chuck Palahniuk. I bought this 20 years ago, because I liked "Fight Club" back then. I had never finished it. So, while I was waiting for other books to arrive, I finally read this one. I can't say if I liked it or not, to be honest. It's quite repetitive sometimes, which is probably intentional. The story itself is ... well, there's not that much of a plot. The whole thing is supposed to work on another level, I think, but it's not working too well for me. And I'll be honest, it was quite a bit depressing to read about a guy who con- stantly beats up himself and tells himself that he's a loser. Hmm.

  • Image

    From his neck to his waist, his body was covered in multicolored tattoos. All of them were advertising, most of them were for a bespoke skin disease subscription service that went out of business seven years ago. He'd long spent the money he got paid for getting them. It hadn't even lasted as long as the business.

• Technology and Free Software

  • OpenStreetMap LLM Tool 4.0: Map Display and Search Enhancements

    Hot on the heels of the Open WebUI 0.6.31 release, I have just released a massive update to the OpenStreetMap tool.

    The biggest feature is that the tool can now create an interactive map of your search results! This is exposed via the `show_map` function to your LLM, and if you ask the it to put results on a map, it will (hopefully) call this function after searching for points of interest. The map integrates directly into Open WebUI's design language, loading a Leaflet map zoomed in to the search results. Clicking on a result in the POI list will take you there on the map, and vice versa.

  • The Best B&W Macintosh Games

    Here is my personal Top 20 List (and number of honorable mentions in an alphabetical order) of the finest vintage Macintosh games.

    Some aged better than the others, so I tried to focus on ones that stood the test of time and are still enjoyable or worth to play today, but also pick from a wide variety of genres for both casual and more hardcore players.

    If you own a vintage compact Mac and want to slow down and explore the early days of computer games, give these a try.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • This is my markup language. There are plenty of others, but this is mine

      The Lobster's Blog Carnival [1] is up, and the theme is “What have you made for yourself?” While I have plenty of programs I wrote [2], there's one that I specifically wrote for my own use: MOPML (My Own Private Markup Language) [3].

      I wrote it to make writing blog entries easier for me. For twenty years, I was hand-crafting HTML (HyperText Markup Language) for each entry and I finally got tired of it. I wanted an easier way to make entries, so I started down the path of implementing my own markup language. Existing languages like Markdown [4] or AsciiDOC [5] didn't appeal to me and were a bit too generic in how they did things. I also wanted to steal ideas from TeX and Org Mode [6], as well as some ideas I had to support tags like (which not many sites bother doing).