Dilip
   <[email protected]>                                       02 Dec 2020
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                              Bottae - Kickoff.

   I came across this idea on that building a gopherspace browser is akin
   to a jedi building a lightsaber[1]. I like this idea - so I'm starting
   my own gopher browser.

   I'm calling it Bottae[2]. I'm writing it entirely in C.

   I will provide updates to this project as I make progress. I'm
   expecting progress to be very slow. I like writing *everything* from
   scratch, and writing *perfect* code, two ingredients that almost
   guarantee that a project never reaches completion. However, I'm still
   going to do it this way - because I can.

   The plan is to build a simple tool to pull gopher sites and render it
   at first. Then, I'll work on adding navigation to it. Then come fancy
   features like bookmarks and help menus and all the good stuff. Once all
   of this is done, I'll take a look at the gemini protocol and see if I
   can add support for that.

   This will give me something to look forward to.


   Notes:
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   1.  I have lost the link to the phlog where I first read this. If you
       are familiar with the source, please drop me a message.
   2.  Thomomys bottae, also known as Botta's pocket gopher or the valley
       pocket gopher, is a pocket gopher native to Western America. It's
       found in California, I live in California, so this name seems apt

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