+-----------------------------------------+ | Replies, Technology, Family | +-----------------------------------------+--------+ | | | Date: 20181117-19:20 | | Author: Sloum | | Soundtrack: Deep Sea Station by Cloakroom | | | +--------------------------------------------------+----------------------+ My phlog updates yesterday got some very kind notice from a few people. Thanks to everyone, in particular yargo[1] and solderpunk[2], for reading! I think yargo is onto something re: gopher. Many Gopher enthusiasts seem to be the type of people that like the handmade approach. Enjoy knowing how things work. Many are hackers (in the old school connotation, not the stealing your bank account information way). While the traditional web certainly has its share of can do people, I agree that no one really makes their own browser (though some expand the use cases of open source browser rendering engines), it is just too big an undertaking. Whereas Gopher, and to a degree public *nix in general, is understandable enough that even a middling programmer like me can figure it out and contribute. Not only that but the nature of these content systems makes for much easier community creation; communities whose goals are not growth above all else, but more genuine content and connection with no capitalism tossing everything out of balance. Solderpunk kindly e-mailed me to let me know how much they liked the ascii art on my gopher hole, as well as my posts. They aparently worked with Tkinter and have written a tabbed browser! That is so cool! I'm a little embarassed about my messy code, but I think the running application is pretty nice, so I shouldn't be that embarassed I suppose. They did have the bad news that is another project with the name Burrow. It is apaprently a CMS style tool for gopher. I have not checked it out yet, but I have grown to love looking at other people's gopher projects (and have already contributed to one other I found on git). I think for the time being I'd like to keep the name as is for my browser. However, I was planning on eventually re-coding the browser in Golang. If I do that, I will give it a different name at that time. I imagine that Burrow in its current state is nearly as complete as I will make it (it is already super useful for me). Plus the applications, while both gopher related, operate in different areas. All that said, if tomasino[3] (the creator of the first Burrow project[4]) lets me know they'd prefer that I change the name I will happily oblige them. I love the community I have found here and am definitely not looking to step on anyone's toes! I've been thinking of playing around with an ssh or sftp server. I really like The Red Consensus' system. How do you go about coding something like that? I have not ever worked on SSH server code. I heard that one was done in BASIC? Really cool. So many talented people in this community!!! If solderpunk or the leader of The Red Consensus wanted to do a brief writeup of what goes into running a federated member of the Circumluna Universe, that would be really cool/interesting. ---------- On the family side of things, I spent the day doing early thanksgiving with my inlaws. It was really wonderful. Low key. We made egg-salad sandwiches, salad, and cupcakes. We played celebrity (a fun game with three rounds: description, acting, and single word. In those rounds each time tries to guess the most characters/celebrities from a bowl of names) and capped off the night watching Jeopardy. My inlaws also got to see our first ultrasound photos! I am so thankful to have the family I do. I feel very lucky in life. [1] gopher://circumlunar.space:70/1/~yargo/clog [2] gopher://circumlunar.space:70/1/~solderpunk/ [3] gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/tomasino/phlog [4] https://github.com/jamestomasino/burrow