It has been somewhat quiet on the circumlunar gopher front recently, so
here's a quick post to break the silence. (And a tip of the hat to
KataolaZ for contributing to this post by letting me know about the
great 'par' commannd [1].)
Since I first started up in circumlunar.space, I've been so busy off the
keyboard that it has been a real struggle at times to participate and
contribute in the ways I think I should. I've finally accepted that I'll
follow a 15-minutes-a-day plan. This allows me to keep up with some of
gopher space, and gives me a little time to slowly peck away at a few
projects (sometimes painfully slowly...).
I've been doing this 15-minutes-a-day plan for several months now, and
finally have a few "products" to show for it. In the spirit of time,
I'll list them out very briefly here:
~ Linkulator ~
git://dome.circumlunar.space/~cmccabe/linkulator
A command line link aggregator, like Y Combinator Hacker News or
Lobste.rs, but purely for the command line in small, trusting shell
communities like pubnixes. This is very much still in development,
including adding and polishing features, and removing catastrophic
security bugs. Little things, of course.
~ Space Launch ~
git://dome.circumlunar.space/~cmccabe/spacelaunch
A new version of the classic Unix prank called 'sl' (or Steam
Locomotive). While 'sl' ran a steam engine train across a user's
terminal when they mistyped 'ls' as 'sl', my version will launch a
rocket vertically through the terminal. But it is also designed for a
multi-user, pubnix environment in the sense that the rocket can be
collaboratively built. Each user in the system can create a '.vroom'
file which provides segments to the rocket. When someone types 'sl', a
rocket is built from a random selection of segments from across the
userbase and launched into orbit.
And finally:
~ Public Access Unix History Documentation Project ~
https://github.com/cwmccabe/pubnixhist
A collaborative project to document current and historical public access
Unix (and GNU/Linux!) systems. As you may know, there have been a lot of
them. Modern systems include both places like SDF, circumlunar.space,
and Grex, as well as the exploding population of the Tildeverse. I will
be writing a lot more about this project in future gopher posts.
All of these projects, and especially the Public Access Unix History
Documentation Project, are open to collaboration. For me, the most fun
part of pubnixes is collaborative work projects. I do love gopher, but I
really like collaborating with other people!
Welp, that's my fifteen minutes for today. See you all tomorrow.
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[1] gopher:// republic.circumlunar.space/0/~katolaz/phlog/20190213_fold.txt
