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The capsule has moved from SDF to tilde.team, this has allowed me more freedom to upload pictures and host particularly long text files. Yay~
SDF was my first pubnix and I am grateful to have used their services for ~8 months. Surely running a pubnix isn't easy or cheap so I am grateful to them for their services. However, during this time my needs as a capsule curator have grown, and at the same time many of SDFs slight grievances started to pile up. those grievances being:
Fortunately, tilde.team seems to offer much more freedom with file size limits and a more up-to-date server. The following projects are evidence of that.
Two new sections of my capsule are "personal ramblings" and "WIP Articles". Personal Ramblings houses some of my more philosophical and metaphysical based writings while WIP Articles houses some half-written or otherwise incomplete works. Usually things that are written in the moment of passion and then forgotten for months. I figure its better to let them see the light of day than sit on the laptop forever. For some numbers, theres 8 new files in personal ramblings and 16 new files in WIP articles.
I recently came across the Garfel comic series and found it mildly amusing. Its a Garfield parody that spins in darker, more abstract and existential direction. There are 58 comics in the collection taking about 10-20 minutes to read depending on how fast you are.
Gramfel Comic Collection On Gemini
A time ago I stumbled into an archived FAQ file from an old, long defunct usenet group 'sci.fractals' dated at 'may 8, 1994' nearly 30 years as of writing this. As you might expect, every single link to ftp servers, gopherholes, and html sites were completely dead. All software mentioned was horrifically outdated. Buuuut, The core information contained still holds up today and is quite well put together. So, I got my metaphorical gloves on and got to work. A few hours and manual reformatting later, the file was reborn into the 21st century as part of the gemini protocol. It now has a new lease on life as an exhibit in my Fractal Compendium project. Some work is still being done to it like adding images and gemipedia entries along side the topics.
I heard about the duckling proxy a few days ago and wanted to try it out. Its a service that converts HTTP sites to gemtext and displays that in your client. So far, I love it. Its kind of like lynx but formatted in beautiful gemtext inside a modern GUI client. I might be a little over-enthuased but I really think it could be a game changer for lots of people. Try duckling and Take back control of your web browser.
My quick-setup guide for the duckling proxy
I have been exploring the spartan protocol for a little bit now. Most of the capsules on there are just little "Hey! isnt Spartan neat? Anyways heres my real capsule on gemini" But hey thats still cool. there is a slightly-outdated spartan mirror of my capsule you can find here:
I dont see too much of a point in having a spartan mirror to my capsule, but theoretically maybe one or two retro-computing enthusiast might want the option. In the future if I ever decide to self-host I may consider making the capsule spartan-exclusive.
To be honest with you, I think TLS is overkill in my particular use-case. Im an author who wants to share writings and maybe some media files, not a developer wanting to build interactive services. so my need for TLS client/server fingerprint system is none.
I would love to hear more peoples thoughts on spartan. To me, Spartan and Gemini are sister protocols. Those Who mostly author gemtext and upload media files should maybe lean towards spartan while developers who want more interactivity in their capsule to make games or social stuff should prefer gemini. In reality, I doubt spartan will ever be as 'big' as gemini, but now that more clients are supporting it you never know.
Its been a busy month for my capsule. Im glad that everything worked out and that theres plenty of new stuff for people to come back to. Im tired of typing now. Talk to you later!