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Welcome to the english section of my gemini capsule!
You'll mostly find tech and coding related stuff here.
Hier entlang zur deutschsprachigen Sektion.
Not much happened in the last days - much todo @work due to log4j everywhere. In my spare time i made some small contributions to 'astro', a gemini terminal client written shell script. It's usage is pretty similar to cgmnlm, which i find very appealing.
astro - gemini web browser using shell script
Today has been a good day. :) I learnt that there is "Password Store", a pass-compatible app for Android. I'm using pass, the password manager for your terminal, for some time now but still rely on KeepassXC/DX for things that i need on my phone as well. This has now ended.
I will move to pass completely.
I'm quite happy with Cinnamon - so happy that it has already landed on my desktop PC and my wife's laptop will soon also be equipped with it.
pass: the standard unix password manager
A few days ago a fellow geminaut made me aware of micro:
A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor
micro uses key bindings inspired by widely used GUI editors, so most people will be very familiar. This eases the onboarding a lot.
I tried it and it works quite well and is fast. But my fingers are very used to the typical vim shortcuts that i had a hard time to get going. Finally i decided to stick with vim and just tune some shortcuts and plugins. So atleast the test of micro helped my to realize what parts of my current vim setup started to anoy me so i could fix them.
(outdated) my self-hosting setup
cgmnlm, a colorful gemini line-mode client
Perl maybe considered oldschool by many, but it is still very good in text processing - which is the very core of gemini. Therefore it is obvious to use perl for cgi with gemini.
orrg, online rss feed renderer for gemini
gmnifaq, a dynamic FAQ-engine for gemini capsule
my gemini related projects on src.clttr.info
As a amateur photographer i created some open source tools which support my development workflow
photo-stats is a small statistics processor for your terminal
photography workflow tools on src.clttr.info
I started my "computer career" in the late 1980s, when i wrote BASIC programs on one of these:
I've since been a tech addict interested in coding and admin stuff. I embrace the KISS principle, i guess that's why i'm so excited about gemini.
After 15 years of working as a software engineer, i'm now more into backend stuff. Honestly i have never been that good in creating a new piece of software from scratch, but i'm pretty good at picking some random stuff and improve it. Thats why whenever there was a piece of "legacy software" that needed to be maintaned it got on my desk.
I run a few public sites on the "ordinary web":
fotowolke.net - german photography community
clttr.info - my private shortlink service
scl.clttr.info - my Friendica instance, part of the fediverse
Besides "tech" my spare time is mostly dedicated to my wife and our dogs, motorcycling and photography. Sometimes even some casual gaming.
profile on my private Gitea instance
fediverse account @ scl.clttr.info
licence: CC-BY-NC-SA © René Wagner