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+ The Web, Plan 9, Suckless, cat-v and bitreich
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| The first time I read about something remotely like the "tildeverse" was
| while I was searching for "free Wordpress host". It didn't really matter if
| Wordpress was present, but (I can't remember why) I was searching for any
| option for blogging outside Medium, because I wanted more CONTROL over the
| environment.
| 
| 
| You see, I used to keep a blog about The Reformed Christian Faith, and for at
| least one entire month Medium kept their logo rainbow-colored as some kind of
| supporting homage to homossexualism. Well, everybody is free to do whatever
| they want (or most of it, at least), but I felt both things really didn't
| match.
| 
| 
| I felt SDF didn't offer what I really needed. The correct timeline escapes me,
| but I even tried to create my own Medium-like website. It was mostly based on
| my (very good) experience with MoinMoin, a wiki engine written in Python I
| used some time ago at work. It would be kind of "text-only" and I was very
| excited about the whole thing. but soon I discovered that, somehow, the Web
| has no place for a website without IMAGES.
| 
| 
| That's kind of weird, right?
| 
| 
| Anyway, these last weeks I grew very unsatisfied with the general state of
| the Web. You see, I'm working for more than a decade as a "web developers", to
| the point I'm capable of working as a Software Architect of even a "Product
| Owner" (man, that term is SO bizarre when you think about it...). I currently
| have a "CTO" title, althout it is kind of worthless, since I really work as
| a backend developer.
| 
| 
| Sorry, I digress.
| 
| 
| The point is: I really know how the Web is made. And, man, it's plain stupid
| when you compare all theses beasts we are growing and petting now with what
| it would be if almost everyone hadn't utterly failed to follow the Unix
| Philosophy.
| It became even more evident when I invested some time researching about other
| operating systems and discovered Plan 9 and all its "children" (I confess I'm
| very impressed with Jehanne OS - at least they are BOLD).
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| 
| Now, I know Plan 9 is a lost battle and nobody is really going to start a
| "revolution" making all that ideas become mainstream [again?]. I'm still going
| to learn more about other operating systems, but everybody should know that
| what we have now is what we are bound to have kind of forever. At least if it
| depends on the efforts made by all the Big Tech Companies, that insist in
| growing The Web Monster even larger: they are encapsulating monsters inside
| new monsters, now...
| 
| 
| Some projects or initiatives that enlighted me, besides Plan 9, was
| suckless.org and cat-v.org. And today I found the Bitreich Project, that
| embodies most of the things I believe, what's very neat. I'm reading about it
| right now and plan to write more about, specially because I always fear that
| these ideas are taken to some extremes.
| 
| 
| One instance are software from suckless.org project, that have no textual file
| configuration systems. You must change a C header file and recompile each of
| them if you want to modify their behavior. I don't think (at least not now)
| that this is a good idea. I share most of their ideals, but THIS sounds like
| an exaggeration to me.
| 
| 
| Well, it's <00:55> right now and there goes the time I planned months ago to
| spend reading some books into navigating though Gopherspace...