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Offline folks know me as James Card.
I've had a personal website online since 1997 and my own domains since 2001. Some of that web stuff has been copied or moved here. I really like the simplicity of Spartan and intend to do most of my new work in this format.
Though this site is primarily based on the Spartan protocol, there is a Gemini protocol mirror of it -- nearly everything on this Spartan site will look and work exactly the same using Gemini.
Though I've made a few attempts at blogging regularly (and some of that old content is here), this site is really not a blog. Some of the content is fresh and a fair portion of it dates back to the 1990s.
Here are the newest pages on this site.
A description of how I implemented the blog portion of this site (2022-07-14)
Here are links to my most popular content.
Descartes' View of Sense Perception
A brief paper written for a class in Modern Philosophy. It amazes me that this page is requested more often than any of the others on my site. Perhaps philosophy students are still struggling to understand this stuff.
How To Make A Mug Of Hot Cocoa
It's a simple process, why does it require two pages of instructions? Have fun!
The class was "Business and Technical Writing" and the assignment was to provide instructions on how to complete a task, with the choices given as "tying shoelaces" or "make a paper airplane". The airplane seemed like a much simpler task. For ten years or so this was near the top of search results for paper airplanes on the web, and the most popular page on my site.
A good place to start if you're trying to figure out what The Salvation Army is all about, this is the document signed by persons who wish to enroll as soldiers of The Salvation Army.
These are the things I consider to be most important. How come this list doesn't intersect with the "popular" list?
This was written primarily with my descendants in mind. It covers some of the things I think should be important for them -- and all the rest of us -- to understand, or at least to think about.
It took me a few decades to figure out what love is all about. It's a pity that we get old so much faster than we grow up.
An exploration of what is required to life a life of dignity.
I try to keep the [What's Here] page updated with links to everything available on this site. It is where I look first when I need to find a particular page.
An index of sorts, perhaps a guide, to the pages available here.
Here are links to my other tildeverse points-of-presence.
As a refugee from the complexity of HTTP/HTML I don't intend to use the web page for much more than pointing people to this Spartan site, and helping them find Spartan client software.
This is a Gemini-protocol link to my Spartan content. If you don't have a Spartan-capable client but do have a Gemini client, this is the link you need. The original content of my Gemini site (before it became a mirror of the Spartan site) is available at /gemini, like this:
gemini://tilde.team/~jdcard/gemini
Gopher is interesting enough that I may decide to put some content there. It is mostly just an empty placeholder right now.
Note: although all three of these tilde services provide blog capabilities I do not intend to use any of them extensively. Whatever blogging I do will be offered here on Spartan.
Since I'm now focusing my efforts on the Spartan protocol it is probably a good idea to point folks to appropriate client software. As of mid-June 2022 I am thinking that Lagrange is the best choice for a Spartan client. Lagrange doesn't offer an Android client yet, but Bollux and gelim both work in Termux there.
Lagrange is a GUI client available for Windows, MacOS, and Linux/BSD (with Android and iOS versions in the testing stage). If you work primarily in text mode, whether in a terminal window or at the console, you can compile a TUI version of Lagrange that provides the same functionality and user interface as the GUI version.
Eva also looks like it could be a good choice, but I haven't been able to test it yet because the only machines I have available for the next few weeks have ARM CPUs and my attempts to build Eva in this environment have been unsuccessful..
This is a friendly fork of the real bollux. It's not entirely written in bash and it has experimental support for spartan:// and file:// protocols. If your system's package manager or software store offers Bollux it likely is the original version and won't have support for Spartan.
I've just been testing the "gelim" CLI client for Gemini and Spartan. It has some nice features: integrated search of gemspace, word wrap so that long lines are easier to read, and mouse support (in X11). It is written in Go and is probably not in your system's package manager or software store, so you'll need to have "git" and "go" (or "golang") installed to build it from the source code.
The Gemini mirror of my Spartan blog
After some tinkering I've got a working blog. Consistent with the simplicity of Spartan it allows me to make a quick post which is then displayed at the top of the blog page followed by links to all my blog posts. It does not allow you to post publicly visible comments; if you'd like to comment on a post you may send me [e-mail].
