I've been lazy for the past week procrastinating on writing about

	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 In my situation, using an "outdated" client is strictly a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