Wednesday  5 June 2024

My own Gopher burrow in the phlog roll
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I have added my own Gopher burrow gopher://box.matto.nl to my phlog
roll [1].

Phlog roll
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Originally I build the phlog roll to scratch my own itch.

I love to read the phlogs out there, starting from aggregators like
Bongusta [2] and the RPoD moku-pona [3]. I wanted a smaller list for
days with less time, and so I came up with the phlog roll.

I copied the idea of Bongusta, to list phlogs with new entries per
day.

BTW, not only new phlog postings are interesting to read. For example,
recently I got sucked in by a number of older postings, some dating
back to 2017. But that is a different story :)

Phlog roll watch list
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The phlog roll started with just a few phlogs, and grew a bit over
time.

The script that builds the phlog roll runs once every 24 hours. It
collects the hashes of the index pages of the phlogs. When a hash
differs from the hash of the previous day, the phlog is listed in the
phlog roll. Simple, but It Works [tm].

The phlog roll watch list [4] contains the index pages that the
script visits.

Multiple users
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I don't keep an eye on the logs of the Gopher server and have no idea
about the number of visitors. Occasionally I see some remarks about a
posting, and also about the phlog roll.

Apparently I am not the only one using my phlog roll to quickly get up
to date with a few phlogs. That is why I added my own Gopher burrow to
the watch list :)

[1]: gopher://box.matto.nl/1/phlogroll
[2]: gopher://i-logout.cz/1/bongusta
[3]: gopher://1436.ninja/1/moku-pona
[4]: gopher://box.matto.nl/1/phlogroll/watchlist



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