Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Useless and therefore complete

    These two transmissions from Alex pretty much express my feelings towards gemini as I approach it as an artist. It is the reduction towards something that has to be accepted despite its perceived shortcomings in order to be aprechiated.

  • rewrite

    your fingertips find every word of the story written on my skin only staying for a moment rush to memorise what you wrote before it slowly fades and it's time to rewrite

• Politics and World Events

  • The Voice of a Moderate Muslim in a Turbulent World

    I am writing these lines not as a politician, not as a professional commentator, and not as a representative of any organization or country. I am writing as a human being. As a Muslim. As someone trying to live his life quietly, with dignity, and with hope for a better future.

    I am a Muslim, yes. That is my identity, my tradition, the faith I grew up with. But I am also much more than that — I am a neighbor, a friend, a worker, a person searching for meaning, love, and peace. And when I look around at the world, I feel a deep need to say clearly: I do not hate Jews, I do not hate Christians, and I do not hate Israelis. I do not hate any human being because of their religion, their people, or their identity.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Spring Fashion

    Data breaches have been the norm in fashion for quite some time. Those looking to mix things up this spring might consider:

    * Data lederhosen

    * Data loðbrók

    * Data sans-culottes

    Others may wish to look into Data sans-Microsoft in the event Microsoft has been hacked again, or has been ordered by some government to do something problematic.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • making raw gopher and gemini requests

      gopher's probably the easiest since it's in plain text (not encrypted). you're just sending the path you want to request and conneting to the hostname and port number that the gopher server is listening on.

    • My Unofficial Gemini Protocol Specification Archive

      As the title implies, I’ve created an unofficial Gemini Protocol Specification archive. For the network protocol and the hypertext format, Gemtext.

      Every once in a while, I work with the Gemini protocol in different capacities, and I’ve always wondered what it means, if a developer implemented a certain protocol version. Is it still usable, or do I need to update it. Would it take a small or a huge update to implement newer versions? Or do I better try to create my own version?