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The Sigil! (was Re: Cognitive aspects of navigation in gemini space)

Sean Conner sean at conman.org

Sat May 30 02:49:18 BST 2020

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It was thus said that the Great Petite Abeille once stated:

On May 29, 2020, at 01:29, Luke Emmet <luke.emmet at gmail.com> wrote:
E.g. ↬ gemini.circumlunar.space ↬ 4028369029 ↬ ~lapryt-fidse ↬ sigil ✌︎
Huh - that is cute. These Urbit avatars are quite attractive. I think
they spent quite a bit of time on the graphic design of that engine.
Yeah, pretty nifty actually.
Like their 'phonemic naming system' as well (the 4028369029 to ~lapryt-fidse bit):
https://urbit.org/understanding-urbit/urbit-id/
https://github.com/urbit/urbit-ob/blob/master/src/internal/co.js
https://github.com/urbit/sigil-js
It's a bit of a pain to run 'out-of-the-box' if you are not into node.js,
but I'm confidant spc will get a sweet Lua implementation in no time :)

I think you know me too well.

Anyway, if anyone is interested in playing with this, I have a CGI scriptset up. A few sample links:

gemini://gemini.conman.org/sigil?id=~lapryt~fidseg&fg=green&bg=white gemini://gemini.conman.org/sigil?id=F01C0885&fg=green&bg=white gemini://gemini.conman.org/sigil?id=~lapryt~fidseg gemini://gemini.conman.org/sigil?id=F01C0885

The source code to the CGI is also avaiable on the site---warning: it's*big*. 202,390 bytes big. But the code is pure Lua, no dependencies otherthan Lua 5.1 or higher, and I've tested the CGi script on a Gemini server, aweb server, and a gopher server, so it serves as an example of amulti-server CGi script as well.

-spc (Work has been a bit slow for some reason ... )