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On SDF Mirrors | |
March 11th, 2018 | |
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jynx got me thinking [0] about mirroring of content on SDF like he | |
does. I had dismissed the idea after my gophermap structural | |
changes. In my RFC completeness I am including the full tabular | |
structure of every link in my gophermaps, explicitly referencing | |
gopher.black and port 70. In Gophernicus I could omit these and | |
the server assumed it should reference itself. Motsognir actually | |
does this as well, but I'm not coding to that server specifically. | |
It's like thinking in terms of POSIX... stick to the spec, at | |
least as much as you can. | |
[0] jynx - On my console experiment | |
But that's still no excuse. I can happily mirror my gopher hole on | |
SDF. Anyone reaching it will just immediately redirect to | |
gopher.black after they follow the first link. That's not bad at | |
all. | |
I've been playing around with manual timestamp checking on files | |
as part of burrow's way of detecting if you abandoned writing | |
a new post so it can cancel. That same technique could be used on | |
a cron-job that pulls my gopher git repo. If my gophermap | |
timestamp changes, force-touch my gopher directory for the SDF | |
listings. Hey! That's a neat idea! | |
Okay, okay... I've moved my stuff for safety and stability, but | |
there's absolutely no harm in having a mirror there. Hell, I think | |
I still have tilde.town mirroring it as well. I haven't checked in | |
weeks. Yikes, I need to pop back in there. | |
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I N O T H E R U N R E L A T E D N E W S | |
I changed my colorscheme on this laptop tonight. It's all related | |
to my eyes and the issues I've been having lately. I'll phlog | |
about that soon | |
Burow hit v1.3.0 tonight with the new strict-mode additions to its | |
output. It "unformats" posts that you edit with it, and | |
"reformats" them when you save. This way it's easy to write prose | |
even on an edit without having to strip all the "i" types back out | |
again temporarily. | |
Dynamic DNS is working via a little python script and the | |
namesilo.com api. It's on 4 hour cron. If something ever bumps my | |
IP, that should be the max I'm offline for. Power outtages are | |
another matter. | |
Good luck to jynx on his upcoming trip. Sounds like a great time | |
to focus and reset the brain. I don't have any text adventure | |
ideas for you except maybe zork and its kin. They're available on | |
GOG if you can run dosbox. I play Quest for Glory on my linux box | |
a bunch. If you want to try a different style retro game, I've got | |
a great one. It's called The Last Door. There's two out so far, | |
but just pick up #1. It's a low-poly point & click (probably work | |
fine on a touchscreen) mystery in the style of HP Lovecraft. | |
Chilling and brilliant musical score. I highly recommend it. | |
Definitely bring headphones... the sound is important to the | |
gameplay at parts. | |
yargo is talking troff too. There's troff everywhere! Where is my | |
damned book!? ARRRGHHhhhhhhhn | |