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Any iOS developers out there? Specifically Swift (and SwuiftUI)? I'm thinking about building a mobile app and was looking for good tutorials/introductions to iOS development with Swift, for engineers without much native app experience. While I think I'm a fair developer my background is in console apps, web apps, and APIs. Based on what I've read, it reminds me a bit of programming Windows apps in the mid 2000's (XAML for declaritive UI, event loops, components with event handlers, etc), however I'm pretty out of practice with that. Any recommended resources to get into iOS development as an experienced dev?
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@dimkr has been publishing about Guppy, a new smolnet protocol based on UDP. It's interesting for sure: gemini://gemini.dimakrasner.com/guppy-v0.2.gmi I posted some feedback on the spec based on writing a toy Guppy client and server. gemini://gemi.dev/gemlog/2023-08-07-guppy-udp.gmi gemini://gemi.dev/gemlog/2023-08-08-more-guppy-feedback.gmi TLDR: UDP makes things hard. Writing unambiguous protocols is also hard. Reading and commenting on the spec has been a fun experience though.
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hey @martin, could you please share stats on the size of Station besides tne user count? Specifically how many posts are there?
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If you want to have tables in your gemtext, just burn them in: gemini://gemi.dev/gemlog/2023-06-30-tables-in-gemtext.gmi
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gemini://tilde.town/~dzwdz/b/ctcp.gmi This is super interesting. de-anonymozing users on IRC based on their IRC client version and humand readable timestamp
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Is geminispace.info timing out for anyone else?
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Easy lay up! Where In The World? • Puzzle #332 • 2023-06-28 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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that scale will get you! Where In The World? • Puzzle #328 • 2023-06-24 ✅✅✅✅❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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This has been my soundtrack all week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdRSVVu6P_o&t=4418s
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So there are more unique finger URL links in Geminispace than unique Spartan URL links. (69 vs 46). 🤔. Perhaps I should be indexing finger 😂 The challenge is "crawling" finger since a human can tell when a response is just a list of user names to query but the diversity of responses makes that hard to program. Maybe I should feed it to a LLVM? "Hey ChatGPT this is the output of a finger response. What words are usernames?"
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Spent some time adding new capabilities to Kennedy to help geminauts update and maintain their capsules. I actually built these while on week long beach vacation: gemini://gemi.dev/images/beach.jpg First is a Capsule Health Report, whic shows you URLs of broken or missing links and the pages that link to them. Just type in a domain. Next is "Backlinks to Capsule" This should you all URLs on a capsule and all the URLs that link to them. Just type in a domain. gemini://kennedy.gemi.dev/
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Based on @smokey's feedback, I added Simple English as a supported language in Gemipedia. I too find this makes complex subjects more readable and approachable: Example: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/wp.cgi/view/simple?Apollo+11 You can select the language here: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/wp.cgi/lang
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There we go! Back in the geography saddle! Where In The World? • Puzzle #289 • 2023-05-16 ✅✅❌❌❌↘️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬇️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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Where In The World? • Puzzle #288 • 2023-05-15 ✅✅✅❌❌⬆️ ✅✅✅❌❌↖️ ✅✅✅✅❌↙️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↘️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬅️ ✅✅✅✅❌⬅️ gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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I just added @mozz's gemini archives from late 2020 into my Gemini Wayback machine, Delorean,. It now has 2.7M captures from 710K URLs, across 2742 capsules. Thanks to deduping logic, the archive is only 43GB on disk. The oldest captures are from September 2020. It's the best way to find and read old capsules that no longer exist: gemini://kennedy.gemi.dev/archive/
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Well crap, I picked a hard day to start playing Where in the world again Where In The World? • Puzzle #287 • 2023-05-14 ✅✅✅✅🤏↘️ ✅✅✅✅❌↖️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬅️ ✅✅✅✅🤏➡️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬆️ ✅✅✅✅❌⬆️ gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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Current page is now down to 58KB from 138KB. That's a lot of previously invalid accounts. gemini://gemlog.blue/users/ I'll make sure to include this in my gemlog directory
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You can see the improvement by looking at the history of gemlog.blue's user page in the Delorean time machine: gemini://kennedy.gemi.dev/archive/history?gemini%3a%2f%2fgemlog.blue%2fusers%2f ~33% of all accounts were spam so the user list page dropped in size by 30KB between 2023-01-29 and 2023-03-20. THANK YOU @SLOUM!
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oh hot damn! Sloum cleaned all the fake/spam accounts off of gemlog.blue! no more link spam! 🥳
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For example, here is what my capsule looked like a little over a year ago! gemini://kennedy.gemi.dev/archive/cached?url=gemini%3a%2f%2fgemi.dev%2f&t=637817435463972450&raw=False
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I used all the content from previous crawls by my search engine Kennedy to construct a searchable archive! It's just like the Internet Archive's Wayback machine, but for Gemini. 2 million+ URLs/versions, going back to Jan 2022. Example: gemini://kennedy.gemi.dev/archive/cached?url=gemini%3a%2f%2fdrewdevault.com%2f&t=637898933801779424&raw=False You can enter and exact URL, or just search for part of a URL, like searching for a domain name gemini://kennedy.gemi.dev/
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Come get some sweet sweet Warez.......... book reading gemini://gemi.dev/warez-book/
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... ... I'm going to have to write a Gemini client aren't I? [sigh]...
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So... The IANA MIME registry officially defines "+gzip" as a valid mime suffix. So... gemini capsules *could* serve a "20 text/gemini+gzip" response for gemtext, it clients could know to gunzip it. Now the client's request has no way to say it support this, but you could config the server with a super simple rewrite rule so that any .gmi file would use a text/gemini+gzip MIME type if the client requests it with an ".gmi.gz" extension. You could also rewrite the gemtext body on the fly so the same-site .gmi links are also .gmi.gz... Is compression for Gemini (and specifically Gemtext) necessarily? No. But it woudl be fun to hack it into a client!
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oh now this is interesting bm25 is a fairly standard relevance algorithm in information retrieval. Interesting to see how Yandex applies it to body content, link content, etc. https://searchengineland.com/yandex-search-ranking-factors-leak-392323
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@martin, not sure if this is a feature or a bug, but Station doesn't decrement your "Logs" count if you delete a post
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Well now that is interesting. I've seen a few capsules that use a "size=" parameter in their Gemini META fields, but this capsule has a "cache=3600"! paramter. Cool hack. I wonder what software this is, and for that matter if any clients look for anything other than "charset" and maybe "lang" when parsing the META field. parameters gemini://gem.bestalbumsintheuniverse.com/
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I found it a little odd that the Awesome Gemini list on GitHub didn't seem to exist at all in Geminispace, so I spent way more time than I expected to using wget, sed, and perl to fetch the Awesome List dynamically and convert it to gemtext. It syncs every time I build my capsule: gemini://gemi.dev/awesome.gmi
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Speaking of cool content, I've been porting Steven Weyhrich Magnum Opus on Apple II History to Markdown and Gemtext: gemini://gemi.dev/apple-ii-history/
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This is cool. A history of the original Project Gemini, as written by NASA in 1977. Its available as a whole book, but because its a US govt work, its in the public domain: https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4203/toc.htm