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🗣 Followers 7 · Following 3 · Logs 26 · Docked 3 months ago
I just posted a rather long gemlog entry about how I wrote the first version of my Starforth compiler from scratch: gemini://elektito.com/gemlog/17-starforth-2 I still think I'm rather long winded in my writing, but oh well, it could have been worse!
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I've just begun reading "On Writing Well" and I feel like it's already affected how I write!
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I don't usually say this to the Dutchies, because they might take offense, but I actually like Dutch weather! It might do crazy things for a bit, but it always reverts soon back to the usual cloudy with a chance of rain. And that's fine with me!
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Also, while I'm here let's leave a cry for help. Everytime I want to do a write up on a project, I bore myself to death with my own long-winded writing. Anyone knows of a resource to read improving my writing? Searching for writing advice seems to mostly come up with advice eon either creative writing, or academic writing, which is not what I need.
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Elpher is broken unfortunately. I can't summon the energy to rollback to the previous version, so I'm using Lagrange, which is nice, but has the huge drawback of forcing me to leave emacs.
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Checking back on gemini-space after about a whole month. I wrote a small, self-hosting compiler along the way, which improved my mental health situation quite a bit! https://git.sr.ht/~elektito/starforth
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I'm back into the abyss again. No energy to do anything really. This song cheered me up for a bit though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Appmg64tZB0
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Crisis averted!
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Looks like I've broken my search engine without even knowing it...
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So I just realized how much a trailing slash could matter in urls: if I go to my gemlog at gemini://elektito.com/gemlog (notice the lack of a trailing slash) and click on one of the relative links (like pointing to "1-first-post"), the client asks for gemini://elektito.com/1-first-post, instead of gemini://elektito.com/gemlog/1-first-post. At first I thought this is a bug in the clients, but now I'm thinking it sorta makes sense. Without the trailing slash, the browser asks for a sibling page, same as if I was looking at gemini://elektito.com/gemlog.gmi. I'd better reconfigure my server to redirect those urls.
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So over the weekend I added "image search" to my search engine, "image" here meaning ascii art! You can try it here: gemini://gemplex.space/image/search. There's also an option to show a random ascii art: gemini://gemplex.space/image/random
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Is it just me being fixated on this, or have the web search engines become entirely useless? Whatever I search for, I seem to get the same 17 best this, and best alternatives to that, and 21 great...and so on? The only way I seem to find stuff is when I already more or less know where something is to be found, like reddit, stack overflow, wikipedia, you know the obvious stuff.
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Funny thing about Station is that there's really no need to follow anyone atm. You can just check the front page! I like that.
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I talked about moving away from services like github a couple days ago. Here's the page I've setup to track my progress. It's a little unweildly for now. Guess I'll have to split it up and organize it into multiple pages soon. gemini://elektito.com/project-migration
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I see Google-style robots.txt rules like /*.jpg$ in the wild. As far as I understand, this is not valid under gemini robots.txt spec, or at least not like it's intended. Or did I get that wrong? Anybody else following those rules?
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Let me reiterate in this venue that I _hate_ Ubuntu snaps. They never work quite well. For example, the way Firefox updates are handled is just abhorrent. You get a notification that there is an update pending, but Firefox needs a restart, but it won't really work unless you do that in the short window that the update is actually retried.
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Just came across this post: gemini://ploum.be/2023-02-22-leaving-github.gmi. I just needed a gentle reminder to get out of github. I'll be making preperations to make the migration soon. I already have a paid sr.ht account, so that's where I'll be heading. I can also think of other services that I want to start migrating out of. I'll probably make a page on my capsule to keep track of what I need to do, and keep a log of things that are done.
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I am letting my 2325 day Duolingo streak die. Duolingo quickly turned out to be not that educational to me. I just kept on the streak because it's the sort of thing my brain keeps forcing me to do. But at this point, the amount of streak freezes that I use is just rediculous and the whole thing is entirely pointless. Not to mention the fact that Duolingo has become complete enshittified as Cory Doctorow would put it.
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Deciding it's never going to be "ready" ready, here's an early version of my gemini search engine: gemini://gemplex.space/
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Finally added "slow down" support to the crawler, in case any server finds the default rate of one request per second too much. I'm a model citizen now.
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On my server logs, I see requests to gemini:///robots.txt. Is this supposed to be a valid request? Should the server fill in the missing hostname with SNI maybe?
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Everytime I hear "gemini is heavier than gopher, lighter than the web", it makes me think of "duty is heavier than a mountain, death is light as a feather."
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Occsionally someone comes up with something so weird and so interestingly, that it absolves the rest of the internet for a while (only a short while!). You think you could use a sector on a real floppy disk? Grab one, while they last. There's only 2880 after all! https://sectordisk.pw/
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Moved my capsule to my own Gemini server, which is now called "hodhod". Source on github: https://github.com/elektito/hodhod
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Geminispace seems to be entirely devoid of anything related to the Penguins of Madagascar. That's a real shame! So I just added a page to my capsule, dedicated to collecting some of their quotes.
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Added a couple of silly mountains to my capsule's ascii art header. I feel like quite an artist now!