Been a while since my last entry. I had started a few entries but | |
never completed them. Oh well. | |
If I've done everything correct, my phlog is now on | |
circumlunar.space. I want to thank solderpunk [1] for granting | |
me asylum here. Of course, since the last time I posted | |
the Gophpocalypse happened [2] and there was much talk about | |
decentralization. Personally, it did not affect me since my humble | |
gopher hole is very basic and only relies on concatenation. But it | |
doesn't mean that I don't disagree with the notion, hence the | |
relocation. It's time that we cast the seeds into the wind and see | |
where that takes us. The new digs are an exercise in simplicity | |
which I appreciate and hope to embrace. | |
Regarding conservatism and hierarchy [3], I am a proponent of some | |
conservatism and most of my experiments are simple problems with | |
hopefully simple solutions. I enjoy seeing my content working on | |
UMN Gopher. Would new itemtypes be useful? Sure. Solderpunk's SSH | |
example would be a good solution to implement. We already | |
have an itemtype for spiderspace, telnet, and so on, so it's | |
not unprecedented. This has already been discussed, but most | |
of the content we're producing does not lend itself to a | |
strong hierarchical organizational structure. That's fine. But I'm | |
cautious about "improving" gopher and just creating another world | |
wide web. | |
I'm going to leave with some lyrics from Butter 08's Degobrah: | |
Listen, I'm not trying to tell you how to live your life | |
I'm just saying there are a lot of things out there | |
That are really important to people that | |
I don't find much importance in -- | |
Whether it's eat squishies or playing mini golf | |
Don't look at me; I'm not a role model | |
This is what I do | |
It might not be the right answer for you | |
Do what you gotta do; join an intergalactic youth community | |
Do something with yourself! | |
Tags: Gopher, Conservatism, Hierarchy, Butter08 | |
[0] Text-only version | |
[1] gopher://circumlunar.space/1/~solderpunk | |
[2] gopher://gopher.black/1/phlog/20180310-black | |
[3] gopher://circumlunar.space/0/~solderpunk/phlog/on-gopher-conservatism.txt |