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ok this was super tricky. as I got closer, I only got more confused. so I guessed the only thing that I knew was around there, between those 2 known places Where In The World? • Puzzle #22 • 2022-08-22 ✅❌❌❌❌⬅️ ✅✅❌❌❌↖️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↖️ ✅✅✅✅🤏➡️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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yea! this is what I’m talking about! can you guess it before your turns run out? Where In The World? • Puzzle #21 • 2022-08-21 ✅✅✅✅🤏↙️ ✅✅✅✅🤏⬇️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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OK, this is just unfair. While building and testing Where In the World, I kept getting stupid hard puzzles like Diego Garcia, Bouvet Island, Palau, or Central African Republic. But once it's live for everyone, it's serviing up these easy, fairly distinctive countries. WTF random algorithm I created? Why do you hate me so?! 😂 Give us something weird like a French Island near Antarctica!
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Where In The World? • Puzzle #20 • 2022-08-20 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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@martin the search feature of Station is really great. How do you implement it?
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Where In The World? • Puzzle #15 • 2022-08-15 ✅✅✅❌❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅❌↖️ ✅✅✅✅🤏↘️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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Success! I was able to restore much of Drew's capsule from older Kennedy crawl data. I'm hosting the mirror here: gemini://gemi.dev/mirrors/drewdevault.com/
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Where In The World? • Puzzle #13 • 2022-08-13 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play Oh yeah! got it in one!
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Where In The World? • Puzzle #12 • 2022-08-12 ✅✅✅❌❌⬆️ ✅✅✅✅❌↗️ ✅✅✅✅❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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I had no idea those islands were part of that country. Learn something new every day 🕵️ Where In The World? • Puzzle #10 • 2022-08-10 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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Where In The World? • Puzzle #9 • 2022-08-09 ✅✅✅✅❌↘️ ✅✅✅✅❌↖️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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Where In The World? • Puzzle #8 • 2022-08-08 ✅✅❌❌❌↖️ ✅✅✅❌❌⬆️ ✅✅✅✅❌⬆️ ✅✅✅✅❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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One of my favorite classes at university was a computer engineering class where we started with a RISC processor core, and added optimizations over the entire semester as we learned about the evolution of processor design. Things like pipelining, opcode and then data caching, out-of-order execution, etc. I've been wanting to follow this style and write about taking a simple (web or gemini) crawler and evolving it to web scale since I first started building Kennedy. It's still a work on progress, but the best way to write is to write: gemini://gemi.dev/crawlers/
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Found an awesome tool for drawing ASCII art drawings. https://asciiflow.com/legacy/ I actually like the legacy version a little better. https://asciiflow.com/legacy/
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So close! and when I saw what it was, it made total sense! Where In The World? • Puzzle #7 • 2022-08-07 ✅❌❌❌❌➡️ ✅✅❌❌❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅❌↘️ ✅✅✅✅❌↙️ ✅✅✅✅❌⬇️ gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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oh heck yeah! Got it in 1! Where In The World? • Puzzle #5 • 2022-08-05 ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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Wrote up a post about how I built Where In the World, including drawing countries with high enough resolution in just text art, maintaining state, and getting input from the user. Code snippets are included as well. This was a super fun project, and I hope people enjoy playing it. Should I make more games? gemini://gemi.dev/gemlog/2022-08-04-where-in-the-world.gmi
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Today wasn't a crazy island and is a country most people will know. This should be a more approachable challenge than the first day, when the answer was Aruba 😂 Where In The World? • Puzzle #4 • 2022-08-04 ✅✅✅✅❌⬅️ ✅✅✅✅❌↖️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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Where In The World? • Puzzle #3 • 2022-08-03 ❌❌❌❌❌⬅️ ✅✅✅✅❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅❌⬇️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play this one was tricky!
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@martin, looks like you are stripping '' (greater than) from a Station post when its shown in a list (the main station page, my archive ). But its visible when you view an individual post. Trying to stop an XSS attack? :-) This might be a feature of the input function you are using. Any way you can allow that character anywhere?
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Where In The World? • Puzzle #2 • 2022-08-02 ✅✅✅✅❌↖️ ✅✅✅✅❌➡️ ✅✅✅✅❌⬅️ ✅✅✅✅❌↗️ ✅✅✅❌❌↖️ ✅✅✅✅❌↗️ gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play So close! 3 of those guess were 90%, but I just couldn't get there. How did anyone else do?
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Where In The World? • Puzzle #1 • 2022-08-01 ✅✅❌❌❌⬅️ ✅✅✅❌❌↙️ ✅✅✅✅❌↘️ ✅✅✅✅❌↙️ ✅✅✅✅✅🎉 gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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I create a Gemini game: Where in the World? A daily geography puzzle game where you have to guess the country from a picture gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi Everyone gets the same puzzle. New puzzles generate every day. You can share a spolier-free summary of your game via Station. Can you guess correctly?
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Oh hot damn! Last week @freezr posted about trying to get Drew DeVault's capsule back online. I went looking at data from old Kennedy crawls and found I had visited 124 URLs on his capsule in mid June. Back then I only cached text content, which returned a status of 20. So I have 104 gemtext pages from Drew's Capsule. I need to write some code to export that (maybe make it a gempub as well) and then I'll post it back on line! Saving full bodies, FTW!
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Facebook had their first year-over-year decline of revenue in their history. good, they have monetized the emotional manipulation of their users with no regard to the damage that is doing to society and our institutions. they are morally bankrupt and anyone who chooses to work there is complicit. despite all this, astonishingly FB received over 20% of all online advertising spend. that is… mind booglingly large and sadly means they aren’t going anywhere soon 💀 The way you take away a bullys power is ignore them from the BBC via 🧇NewsWaffle gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/article?https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fbusiness-62322862
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I added image search to Kennedy, my Gemini search engine. Now you can search over 18,000 images across all of Gemini space with text queries. gemini://gemi.dev/gemlog/2022-07-26-kennedy-image-search.gmi Searching for "cats" brings up a cute picture of @smokey's cat gemini://kennedy.gemi.dev/image-search?cats Here is an example of finding images of Lagrange. gemini://kennedy.gemi.dev/image-search?lagrange I really like that because it's finding images on non-English capsules too.
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This made my day @marginalia! https://status.marginalia.nu "The database has been moved to a new partition, and rebuilt. Next the search engine index needs to reconstructed. This looks like it take about 80 hours." I love your posts about astrolobe. Would you consider sharing some stories about how you handle the operations side of things?
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hey @martin, you like Esperanto... so check this out: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/wp.cgi/view/eo?Esperanto I updated Gemipedia to work with other languages. Like.... all of them. Even the dead ones. For example, Wikipedia, in Latin: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/wp.cgi/view/la?Roma If Wikipedia exists for that language, you can use it. So now you can Esperanto all you want and never leave Gemini! You can swap the language here: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/wp.cgi/lang Just keep that between you, and me, and I guess all of Station. At least until this weekend when I can write a proper gemlog post 🙈🤣
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what do people use to generate ASCII art for their capsules? I’m looking for something that handles edges well
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While I love the simplicity of gemtext, the inconsistency of the line rules is iratating Specifically whitespace between the start-of-line identifier, and the rest of the line. Headings? Optional. Lists? Not optional. Turns out whitepsace between the "=" and the URL of a link line is optional. I fixed a bug in Kennedy's crawler, where I was only pars out link lines that had whitespace after the "=". That one character bug fix led to the crawler discovering 15% more URLs!!! Kennedy is now indexing ~315K URLs