I've been lazy for the past week procrastinating on writing about | |
the joys of retro/limited computing, modems, phones and VOIP. | |
Well, do I have news for you: I'm *still* not going to write about | |
that today. | |
Instead, I'm going to write a much shorter entry regarding | |
Tomasino's recent phlog on gophermaps [1]. For the most part, I | |
agree with his stance regarding this. Gophermaps are great for | |
links to related content and in my opinion makes for a pleasant | |
experience. Where I feel we diverge is with regards to client | |
choice. In my situation, using an "outdated" client is strictly a | |
choice, however, I can't assume that everyone else has the same | |
luxury. There may be users running on older equipment and | |
operating systems that don't have the latest software available. | |
Finally, simply suggesting using client X reminded me of the days | |
where websites were "designed for Internet Explorer Y" and | |
"designed for H x V resolution". | |
I certainly hope Tomasino doesn't take this personally, as I | |
understand that he's trying to do (and succeeding) what many of us | |
are: produce interesting content in an enjoyable format. | |
So instead of ranting, I've brought a solution. It's not | |
production ready, more of a proof of concept -- something I bashed | |
together to see if it would work. Because of this, I will not | |
include a handy link but will instead just post the URL in text. | |
Nillify will take a gophermap URL and try to convert it to text. | |
gopher://sdf.org/1/users/dokuja/nillify | |
It's pretty dumb, quick, and dirty, but it may be useful. Maybe | |
I'll play around with it more when I get a chance (ha!). | |
On another note, tfurrows [2] wants to prepare for the general | |
exam. Hey! Me too! If you're interested, maybe we can shoot study | |
questions or talk theory sometime. Anything that'll make learning | |
fun should make it easier to recall. | |
Also, welcome and welcome back mnw [3] and snowdusk [4]! | |
Huh, maybe that wasn't so short after all... | |
Tags: #gopher #hamradio #welcome | |
[0] Text-only version | |
[1] gopher://gopher.black/1/phlog/20180701-why-i-use-gophermaps | |
[2] gopher://vernunftzentrum.de/0/tfurrows/phlog/ai8_theBook.txt | |
[3] gopher://sdf.org/1/users/mnw | |
[4] gopher://sdf.org/1/users/snowdusk/phlog |