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Some replies from Iceland
July 05th, 2019
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Hi everybody! I'm in Iceland now. We moved this past weekend and
we're settled in an airbnb for July getting everything in place.
If you're interested in my expat adventures, that's something I'm
writing over in web-land so my parents and wife's friends can
follow. Check it out [0].
[0] tomasino blog
Tonight I thought it would be fun to take stock of recent things
happening on gopher and send some feedback. So, here goes:
moji, over on circumlunar, has detailed their efforts to cut back
on the caffeine [1]. It's a solid post and raises some good
thoughts on what it means to be reliant on something like coffee.
Addictions, even relatively benign ones, have some hold on you.
I can totally respect the effort. More power too you.
[1] moji - caffeine
pkotrcka, whose name I have to be very careful typing out, wrote
a neat phlog about cameras that put my head in weird places [2].
Mainly it made me sad that photography is pretty much dead.
I mean, not really at all, but as a profession it's gone from this
highly technical artform with super expensive equipment, years of
training required and it's been overrun by quick snaps with your
phone and bottled filters. There's little spots left for the art,
like wedding photos and... is that it? Really though it's a "dead"
technology in the same way gopher is.
There's the part where my mind turned happy again. When we say
it's dead that just means that capitalism stopped seeing monetary
value. That's not the same thing at all. Why is there no money in
gopher? Well, not enough people to be worth the effort investing.
Photography? Same thing. Niche stuff sure, but other than than
just let it return to the afficianados. Let the pkotrckas of the
world have their fun, right? Keep on keeping on, pkotrcka.
[2] pkotrcka - cameras
The amazing, incredible visiblink did some hard work recently
cleaning up insulation and maybe asbestos [3]. Well done. That's
not what I wanted to comment on at all, though. At the very end of
the phlog they mention that the gopher hole switched over to a pi
zero w, saving more power. I love this ultra-low power stuff.
I have some basic notes on how I stripped my pi zero down to the
minimum draw for the little free library project. I recommend
checking it out in my archives for tidbits.
[3] visiblink - asbestos
Ubergeek kayaking with son
ubergeek got his son out kayaking and that's so awesome [4].
I adore kayaking. It was really sad having to sell my kayak when
we moved. There's something really ... perfect about being out on
the water. I can close my eyes and feel myself relax just thinking
about it.
I learned to kayak in Alaska in Resurrection Bay, near Seward. It
was cold and beautiful. I saw bears and salmon and eagles and was
forever in love. I love lakes now. They're so smooth and you can
just pull yourself a bit with the paddles and drift away.
Anyway, I can see why his son is connecting with it. I wish you
both the best. It's some special stuff, there. Good dad-ing.
[4] ubergeek - kayaking
Our pal heavysquare sent me an email the other day asking me to
point his phlog roll post to the root directory where he's added
a really killer gophermap. There's so much more to see than just
the "noise" phlog I had there before. Check him out [5].
[5] heavysquare
Finally, there was a lot of talk this past week about Gemini's
link syntax [6,7,8]. Out goes the [|] and in comes the =>. I'm
into it, guys. It's cool as heck. Here's my 2-cents:
1. Spaces optional. You can split on whitespace easy enough with
regex alone and not care if it's one space, zero, or
a tab-space-tab-space salsa.
2. Link first. We're talking about clients doing some magic in the
gemini world, but how much should we rely on the client's
display choices to fulfill that important note that a URL
should always be shown. If we have it at the end it could get
cropped off screen or hidden in a wrap or any number of things.
Link first is more likely to be seen, easier to parse across
languages, and MOST importantly, means that the label can be
optional.
You see how I'm linking to things paragraph by paragraph in
this post? I have numbers referencing things with the square
bracket syntax because it's my convention, but the position of
the links in context to the copy says enough about what they
are. In many cases I just described the link in a paragraph and
the label on the link is redundant. If the label in gemini is
optional then you can just do something like:
=> gemini://cosmic.voyage
And let it live on its own.
[6] solderpunk - quick update on link syntax
[7] ascraeus - peter frampton reference
[8] sloum - commentary on link syntax
Thanks gophers. Keep gophin' around.
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