going-flying.com gemini git repository
607a9f442b523cf7522dfdf8a3f29e8d95bb9965 - Matthew Ernisse - 1649385449
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diff --git a/users/mernisse/articles/26.gmi b/users/mernisse/articles/26.gmi index c267b71..6001da6 100644 --- a/users/mernisse/articles/26.gmi +++ b/users/mernisse/articles/26.gmi @@ -7,28 +7,29 @@ the illusion that there was any way to hold back the insanity of people. My frustrations were mounting and I found solace in reading things from similarly beset individuals. Simon Travaglia's BOFH[1] was an early companion. There were also forums, mailing lists and USENET news groups -where one could express themselves. +where one could express themselves. Over the years I stopped using most +of these things, largely because I entered a form of recovery from the +systems administration trade and went into a somewhat more well thanked +field... sales. Late last year though I went and started poking around +USENET again. It is much less active than before however it is still +there (it predates the Internet, after all) and there are still interesting +topics being discussed regularly. It got me thinking a bit about my +website[2] and I was about to start working on a NNTP frontend when I +discovered that the kind soul who wrote gmane[3] also wrote a RSS to +news gateway, gwene[4]. I promptly submitted my RSS feed and registered +the newsgroup gwene.com.going-flying.blog[5]. It does a pretty good job, +though since my RSS feed contains HTML you will want a news reader that +understands HTML. That being said I render a pretty minimal markup for +RSS articles and I include the full article text so it should be a +pretty good experience to read for gemini enthusiasts. If you fancy +looking at a more-often updated collection of mostly technical things +I encourage you to take a peek. For the generally interested there is +also a USENET group for gemini as well, it's lightly active but seems +mostly friendly. You can find at comp.infosystems.gemini[6]. -=> http://bofharchive.com [1] - -Over the years I stopped using most of these things, largely because I -entered a form of recovery from the systems administration trade and went -into a somewhat more well thanked field... sales. Late last year though -I went and started poking around USENET again. It is much less active -than before however it is still there (it predates the Internet, after all) -and there are still interesting topics being discussed regularly. It -got me thinking a bit about my website[2] and I was about start working -on a NNTP frontend when I discovered that the kind soul who wrote -gmane[3] also wrote a RSS to news gateway, gwene[4]. I promptly put my -RSS feed and registered the newsgroup gwene.com.going-flying.blog[5]. - -=> https://www.going-flying.com/ -=> https://gmane.io/ -=> https://gwene.org/ -=> nntp://news.gwene.org/gwene.com.going-flying.blog/ - -It does a pretty good job, though since my RSS feed contains HTML you -will want a news reader that understands HTML. That being said I render -a pretty minimal markup for RSS articles and I include the full article -text so it should be a pretty good experience to read for gemini -enthusiasts. +=> http://bofharchive.com [1] http://bofharchive.com +=> https://www.going-flying.com/ [2] https://www.going-flying.com/ +=> https://gmane.io/ [3] https://gmane.io/ +=> https://gwene.org/ [4] https://gwene.org/ +=> nntp://news.gwene.org/gwene.com.going-flying.blog/ [5] nntp://news.gwene.org/gwene.com.going-flying.blog/ +=> nntp://news.aioe.org/comp.infosystems.gemini/ [6] nntp://news.aioe.org/comp.infosystems.gemini/