RPoD - Wyoming Gopher
Site Log
20240128: Mirrored Project Gutenberg (text
files only) and the Survivor Library
(survivorlibrary.com, PDF files). Both of these
are in a new section of the main RPoD gophermap.
20240101: Due to a couple of guestbook posts,
I feel compelled to put out that I do not run
floodgap, I do not host an instance of veronica,
look at the server in the selectors you have
issues with. This is 1436.ninja and I link to
numerous other servers. If the post about veronica
was actually referring to my moku-pona, when I
upgraded to v2 some phlogs were lost. Contact
sysop [at] 1436.ninja to rectify. Thank you.
20231111: Worked on the Port70News rejection
logic. It was supposed to catch URLs returning
empty results, usually due to JS generated
pages. It was buggy and didn't give useful
feedback. It seems to be working now. Drop me a
line (contact info is top of main menu) if you
have issues, please. Also fixed utf-8 handling.
20231015: Port70News now uses rdrview, a
readability port for commandline, piped through
lynx -dump for a much cleaner output. Long
overdue.
20230916: Major upgrade to my internet
connection. Went from 7 megabit/sec down, 256
kilobit/sec up to 50 megabit symetrical.
20230912: Main gophermap, Port70News, and
My Guestbook are all feeding from recutils
databases. I am really liking the flexibility this
lends itself to.
20230823: As I mentioned in my 20220606 phlog
entry, I have been kicking around the idea
of running this gopherhole via a recutils
database. Well a portion of this gopherhole is now
being produced thusly. If I decide to keep it this
way, I'll expand it to the entire site.
20230814: Upgraded the Lenovo ThinkCentre now
hosting RPoD to 10GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD. Posting
to the guestbook and Port70News is reenabled.
20230805: RPoD is no longer a Raspberry Pi 4,
it is now a Lenovo ThinkCentre. Gopherd is now
gophernicus. Some things are not currently
working, but I will be working on this.
20230317: After a foolish experiment with trim on
the RPoD ssd, it went down for a week while I was
out of town. Sorry about that.
20221231: Power outage downed the site. fixed some
formatting in the server information file.
20220401: Increased security. Wrote script to
restart gopherd after checking if down. Increasing
availability.
20210902: Took RPoD down today and copied
everything over to a new Raspberry Pi 4 with a
256GB M.2 SSD in a fan cooled case. It took some
doing. I may be tinkering with designing a more
portable gopher- hole. Time will tell.
20210705: Messed up my crontab while editting it a
few days ago, which led to extended downtime for
the site.
20210310: Rewrote the gophermap.cgi for my
phlog. Got rid of the archive pages, switching to
one long list to the beginning of time. Truncated
entry titles at 50 characters to stop line
wrapping on most standard devices.
20200722: Minor maintenance on the logging of
Xylophar for the host count on the SERVER INFO
file. Rebooted server for the first time in a
couple of months.
20200510: I took RPoD down tonight at 1800 UTC-6
and performed a backup with dd to an external
drive. This took several hours.
20200201: Loads of minor tweaks to Xylophar and
the RPod Gopher=>HTTP Proxy. Bugs were found and
killed. There are some RPoD specific additions to
the Proxy such as the (c) notice on the phlog,
that are not present in the git repo.
20200126: Xylophar was "getting stuck" this
was pegging the CPU on RPoD, degrading
performance. Added a SUB to the Xylophar
sourcecode to shell "kill -9 $$" and called it as
the last command in all spots where the gopherd
should be finished. Worked like a champ!
20200123: https://leveck.us now points directly
to this gopherhole using the RPoD Gopher=>HTTP
Proxy. The robots.txt file will prevent (ethical)
bots from spidering gopher.
20200120: Added http redirect support to Xylophar
and upgraded RPoD to this new version.
20200116: RPoD has been migrated to Xylophar as
its gopherd. https://gitlab.com/leveck/xylophar
20190927: NO UPDATES NO MOSH NO CORE NO TRENDS NO
FUN
20190913: Reversed the moku-pona change from the
last SL entry... after moving moku-pona fully to
the RPoD chroot.
20190911: Did some remodeling. Improved the
formatting of the Palm Doc version of the
Phlog. Changed the moku-pona instance to check on
the hour, but not to touch the gopherhole unless
there is an update.
20190902: Added a Plucker file collection in the
Document Collections section. Infused my moku-pona
with gopher.black's sites.txt (cat'd with mine,
sort'd, uniq'd, manually deduped). It'll settle
down once again after updates naturally occur.
20190831: Added a Palm Doc version of the phlog,
yeah I know it mangles source code I have
posted. I still think it is cool. Also added a
feed version of my Twitpher (not atom, like that
website for microblogs).
20190625: Imported, sorted, and uniq'd a sites.txt
from another moku-pona instance. I forget
who's it was, but thank you for the infusion
of phloggers! Consequently the local moku-pona
instance is a mess today. It'll resume normalcy in
time.
20190123: Upgraded my moku-pona install finally.
curl'd The update pages from the two major
circumlunar.space sites into my sites.txt. Moved
the other circumlunar.space links to the Bookmarks
section.
20190119: Modified the Phlog gophermap to only
display current year. All prior years are
available via a link to Archives at the top of
that menu. All links still work, files have not
moved. It was just getting a tad cluttered.
20181218: https://leveck.us once again mirrors the
phlog. It uses mod_markdown for transformation.
20181201: Cleaned all extra, superfluous software
off of RPoD, increasing performance. Added
photograph of my (current) complete PDA collection
to the PDA_Collection section.
20181130: Updated RPoD's storage from 32gb to
256gb on its main drive. Continued hosting
expansion is assured for some time to come. Also
setup cron'd rsync backup of the gopher chroot.
20181001: I am seeking Palm Device donations. If
you are interested in finding a home for your
device, please write me at: sysop@1436.ninja
20180929: Changed a couple of gosher configuration
items and got moku-pona to work with my phlog.
20180809: RPoD is now runing in chroot
using gosher as the server! Report bugs to
sysop@1436.ninja ::IMPORTANT:: I Moved My Phlog --
update your links. ALSO: Took down the leveck.us
www site. The world wide web increasingly
represents all I hate.
20180708: Complete reorg of main
gophermap. Everything is still here, just
restyled, moved, consolidated. Major redo of phlog
20180704: Started streamlining, deleting,
combining links & sections on the main gophermap
to start figuring out a good starting point for
the ongoing gopher + wiki project.
20180630: Added Asatru Section. Contains the 8chan
Asatru trove and the text version of the RPoD
Asatru Wiki.
20180607: Did a lot of work to the www blog
frontend of the phlog. All text, fast, uses
same text files as the phlog so no upkeep.
https://leveck.us
20180605: added a plaintext only (type 0) view of
my phlog Diggie Dog on Android dislikes my type 1
format pick your view below...
20180517: symlink from phlog to
/var/www/html/blog. https://leveck.us now displays
a blog version of the RPoD Phlog.
20180419: added sourcecode for my note/task app
to the software projects section. added an RPG
character backstory creation guide to the games
section.
20180325: purchased 1436.ninja, pointed all
local selectors to it. gopher.leveck.us and
rpod.leveck.us still functional.
20180318: added a twitpher as /~leveck on
gopher.leveck.us
20180316: added GAMES section
20180312: Guestbook was broken too, completely
rewrote it. now uses /bin/sh, par, tac, and sed
for urldecode. preserved old entries.
20180311: Moved some content around, removed
the forum as the code is broke AF. This should
be rewritten as initially I did not know what I
was doing. The gophermap in that directory is a
symlink to the main gophermap so as not to break
links.
20180307: Implemented search/filter on my
phlog. Since I am not archiving it, and the
listing could become burdensome, this is a nice
alternative. I may end up linking directly to
current year from my main gophermap. We'll see.
20180304: In the last couple days got a
gopher server up & running on my VPS. This
is hosting the music related gopherhole.
gopher://namtaraum.productions
20180212: Changes to PDD (my phlog engine) and the
script I use to write my phlog. Also relocated
the atom feed script for the phlog to RPoD and
modified it I did change the IDs. I apologize if
this messes with your feed reader (look at me
assuming people subscribe to my feed).
20180211: After a protracted absence, I am
back. Yesterday I posted a link to the Project
Gutenberg rewrite and am seeking testers to poke
holes in it to improve the code which is a WIP.
20180116: New logo. Started work on the Gutenberg
rewrite. The parsing code will be interesting...
20180106: https://leveck.us is no longer merely
a proxy for the gopherhole. It is now a plain
looking personal page that links to the gopher
proxy in addition to other things.
20171217: Redid the site completely, after
an email con- versation with Christopher
Lohman. Split each section into its own
gophermap. Put them into a directory named
SECTION. The main gopermap just =cat
/var/gopher/SECTION/*
20171216: Added GOPHER SEARCH section, included
Contrition and The Gopher Lawn. Added GOPHER ENTRY
POINT section. Added link to the Gopher Project.
20171212: Backed up gopher and http servers to
private git repos. > 61,000 files between the two,
the vast majority in /var/gopher
20171211: Added q to PROJECTS
20171209: Changed the site header again. I love
the ornate ASCII skull motif, but simple seems
more "gophery"
20171204: Added pinout diagram I made of Adafruit
USB to TTL Serial Cable to the RASPBERRY PI
section. Made the RPoD DocumentStore sourcecode
available on the DocumentStore page. Also added
some more description to the links in the LOCAL
CONTENT section. Updated the site_information
document.
20171202: Added site_information text file in
SITE INFO section. Added sitelog atom feed
via https. Added sliderule section. Updated
stagit-gopher I have taken to mirroring useful
projects from other git servers to my own in
addition to only hosting my own code. Part of my
file hoarding initiative.
20171201: Created favicons for a variety of
platforms. So regardless of where you save a link
to leveck.us, there will be a nifty icon.
20171129: stripped the main gophermap of loose
text. This involved some editting of the site's
mySQL database -- I stil need to write a front
end for that. phpMyAdmin is perfectly usable, but
it is not convienient. My mySQL server is not
accessible outside my home network so I have to
run phpMyAdmin via VNC. Another project...
20171126: wrote a new phlog script, it so greatly
simplifies writing a phlog entry that I now have
extra time on my hands... Also mirrored some vim
plugins on my gogs server. Also uploaded to my
git the sitelog atom script. They, and the phlog
script have been updated via stagit. look in the
[PROJECTS
20171125: updated my bookmark stash script,
implemented password protection on the webserver,
uploaded to git server, updated stagit ***
implemented atom feed for this SiteLog implemented
a weekly dd based backup of RPoD2. I can run
manually in case of big changes. On my next set of
off days, I want to craft a sollution that only
copies files I specify and only uses standard
commands so I am not tied to any software package
that may or may not be maintained.
20171124: updated LevPherCMS to 0.21, did
some minor optimi- zation to code, compiled,
installed. Posted to git, ran stagit. Section
codebase finally released.
20171123: wrote myself a bookmark stasher in bash,
uploaded the code into my git. NOTE, the live code
omits piping to ~/bm, but I do not want to include
my live file location, so screw it, you get the
idea... TODO: create an atom feed for this sitelog
20171120: added gallery, just a place to put
images. by the suggestion of Tomisino on mastodon,
also hosting the phlog atom feed via gopher now.
20171119: fixed the atom feed script now properly
escaped in CDATA tags and functional in all
clients I tested with. my phlog is syndicated at:
https://leveck.us/phlogfeed/phlog.atom
20171118: wrote an autogeneration script to turn
my phlog into an atom feed. It may not be 100%
compliant, this is very much a fast and loose,
embrionic state bit of code at the moment... It
lives on sdf, and another script on RPoD runs
it via ssh and scp's the atom feed to a public
http directory which is linked to on the phlog
page. NOTE: lynx sometimes chokes on type h
pointing to https, so I point to http and let my
webserver redirect.
20171115: due to the unicode header
art not showing correctly on some of
my test clients/ devices, went back to
straight ASCII also inspiration from here:
gopher://zelibertinegamer.me/0/phlog/2017-11-12_13
33.txt got me thinking trad is the way to go.
20171111: fixed the slashdot feeds slicing
20171106: added slashdot feeds. haven't been a /.
regular since the 90s, but they have tech content
all in line and curl-able... inspired by the image
upload on 70chan, wrote a document uploader in
bash, using curl. my wife has termed it "an all
text nerd pinterest" -- I'll take that. also phlog
entry announcing it, and new link to 70chan, along
with new chan section.
20171105: phlog entry, wrote auto phlog shorty
script: #!/bin/sh nof=$(date +%Y%m%d) cd
gopher/dat nano $nof.post chmod 0644 $nof.post cd
~
20171104: phlog entry, added Solene link, backend
stuff
20171103: uploaded and linked new Cavernlord song
20171102: modified LevPherCMS, added section
table, ability to sort sections. *not* currently
ready to release. TODO: add section view where
only display section which is hotlink. an aweful
lot of reshuffling and resorting, new section,
etc.
20171101: OC skull ASCII art head/foot.
20171029: ported stagit-gopher to standard \t
delimited gophermap gen'd static pages pointing to
the gits on https://leveck.us/git, added them to
projects section. Pointed gutenberg link at the
live gutenberg site.