---------------------------------------- On SDF Mirrors March 11th, 2018 ---------------------------------------- jynx got me thinking [0] about mirroring of content on SDF like he does. I had dismissed the idea after my gophermap structural changes. In my RFC completeness I am including the full tabular structure of every link in my gophermaps, explicitly referencing gopher.black and port 70. In Gophernicus I could omit these and the server assumed it should reference itself. Motsognir actually does this as well, but I'm not coding to that server specifically. It's like thinking in terms of POSIX... stick to the spec, at least as much as you can. (TXT) [0] jynx - On my console experiment But that's still no excuse. I can happily mirror my gopher hole on SDF. Anyone reaching it will just immediately redirect to gopher.black after they follow the first link. That's not bad at all. I've been playing around with manual timestamp checking on files as part of burrow's way of detecting if you abandoned writing a new post so it can cancel. That same technique could be used on a cron-job that pulls my gopher git repo. If my gophermap timestamp changes, force-touch my gopher directory for the SDF listings. Hey! That's a neat idea! Okay, okay... I've moved my stuff for safety and stability, but there's absolutely no harm in having a mirror there. Hell, I think I still have tilde.town mirroring it as well. I haven't checked in weeks. Yikes, I need to pop back in there. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I N O T H E R U N R E L A T E D N E W S I changed my colorscheme on this laptop tonight. It's all related to my eyes and the issues I've been having lately. I'll phlog about that soon Burow hit v1.3.0 tonight with the new strict-mode additions to its output. It "unformats" posts that you edit with it, and "reformats" them when you save. This way it's easy to write prose even on an edit without having to strip all the "i" types back out again temporarily. Dynamic DNS is working via a little python script and the namesilo.com api. It's on 4 hour cron. If something ever bumps my IP, that should be the max I'm offline for. Power outtages are another matter. Good luck to jynx on his upcoming trip. Sounds like a great time to focus and reset the brain. I don't have any text adventure ideas for you except maybe zork and its kin. They're available on GOG if you can run dosbox. I play Quest for Glory on my linux box a bunch. If you want to try a different style retro game, I've got a great one. It's called The Last Door. There's two out so far, but just pick up #1. It's a low-poly point & click (probably work fine on a touchscreen) mystery in the style of HP Lovecraft. Chilling and brilliant musical score. I highly recommend it. Definitely bring headphones... the sound is important to the gameplay at parts. yargo is talking troff too. There's troff everywhere! Where is my damned book!? ARRRGHHhhhhhhhn