Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🔤SpellBinding — DEIURSQ Wordo: CROAK

  • Love and cultivation

    I love to love.

    My daughter was making fun of me of how attached I become of people. I replied, yeah, I love to love. I really love people, I want to care for them, I want to build reality around them. I wonder if it's my lack of general direction that make me want to love that much. I see potential in people that they often don't see. I try to point out each time I see that potential shine. Like the fool, wandering, offering a moment, a bit of warmth to whoever wants to stop for a bit.

  • the wistful present

    I thought I saw a giant leaning over a fence, but when I got there it was only a tree.

    The dream could never fit the reality, but there was a moment when I thought it could.

  • Alex Schroeder’s Diary — Locking the gate

• Technology and Free Software

  • How to switch your envs.net shell from byobu to tmux

    This article intends to show you, how to change your terminal multiplexer from "byobu" to "tmux" on your envs.net shell account.

    [...]

    Set the 'User' option to your envs.net username and you have to make some changes to the 'RemoteCommand' option:

    You have to set the -t and -s option to a unique identifier, I've set mine to 'dan-envs'. Make sure they're the same, but don't use mine! I also had to set the timezone $TZ environment variable to my timezone, otherwise tmux will show the time in UTC. You can set it to any Linux timezone you want.

    I'm also using the ZSH shell instead of bash. So you have to set the command to run in tmux to '/usr/bin/bash' at the end of the 'RemoteCommand' option instead of '/usr/bin/zsh', if you want to use the bash shell (which you probably want to do).

  • 🧹 Cleaning Tiny ( my main server ) without the right tools

    My tiny PC/server has been sitting there quietly doing its job for months. Then, over the last few days, it started making that noise.

    You know the one.

    The slightly angry, dusty, high-pitched whine of a cooler that has had enough. Not a catastrophic noise, just the kind that tells you the cooler is not happy anymore.

    Dust, obviously.

  • 29 January 2026

    And again, the whole family is sick. This time with a somewhat mild case of the cold, it mostly seems to attack the vocal cords leaving everything else in a "somewhat okayish" state. Junior had it for about a day and it was gone, my wife got it the last and she is a bit more affected and opted to stay home and i myself isolate myself at my office at work and enjoy the undisturbed time as anybody else in the company treats this office now as a form of containment zone.

    This somewhat undisturbed time gives me the opportunity to work further on my big plan to move the PCs of the company away from big American tech companies. While most of our software now runs in the browser (but thankfully, not in "The Cloud" but on our own servers) it now mostly depends on our ERP software, but even on this front there is relieve coming: They announced that it now has a browser based frontend and they expect a new release around the second half of this year. This leaves only DATEV (the accounting software)...

  • Anchors

    This is a question about the limitations on the gemini protocool. It isn't a criticism or a complaint, more of ... seeking understanding.

    Why doesn't the gemini protocool have anchors? I don't mean the <a href='link'> part of the "anchor" tag, but the <a href="#anchor_on_this_page'> sort.

    I remember this was one of the first bits about HTML that struck my interest when I was learning it back in the day. You could have a table of contents at the beginning of a document, and then link within the document to various 'anchors' (or in gemini: headings).

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Gemtext Anchors and Line-Oriented Design

      I came across a thread on BBS yesterday, almost two years old, discussing the idea of implementing anchors in Gemini.^ Users considered both protocol-based and Gemtext-based implementations, how easy it would be to implement either, and what it would mean for the Gemini protocol. The discussion was quite lively for the time.

      Admittedly, I could really use anchors in Gemtext. I've written a shell script to manage an offline microjournal, which currently uses Markdown, but I'd like to add other markup formats to the script. It would be neat to include Gemtext in that list. However, part of the microjournal's functionality includes replies, which requires being able to link to other headers in the journal. Markdown and Zim have syntax for that; Gemtext does not.

      As mentioned in the BBS thread, there are two potential ways to add anchor support: server-side with modifications to the Gemini (or Gemtext) spec, or client-side with added functionality in Gemini browsers. It seems pretty clear to me that anchors will never be added via the former route, as URL fragments are explicitly disallowed in the protocol specification--not only must clients not request then, but servers must reject any request that contains them. Client0-side implementations have greater freedom, since "[s]tyling is under the exclusive control of the rendering user agent",^^ as long as that rendering doesn't alter the content of the document itself.