2022-06-11

I've had some awesome people reach out and let me know their
tips for refreshing their gopher hole on the main gopher.club
list. I'm gonna try them out with this here phlog post of mine.

Surfing the gopherweb is kind of interesting in terms of
applications. I find myself bouncing between just regular
gopher on the shell and a more modern program called 
lagrange which also supports gemini. I also keep a copy xgopher
around as well. 

lagrange supports a new protocol called gemini which I haven't
explored much of and there's probably a bunch of other programs
that are similar. lagrange just happens to be the one packaged
in fedora. 

I do want to bring up xgopher though. xgopher is a massive 
throwback in terms of UI and usability but one really nice
feature that it has is a big button that lets you inspect
the type of gopher link something is listed as. I'm sure you
can do that in other programs but I find it an interesting
design choice that inspection of the link was important enough
to make as the 2nd button. I quite like it even if the rest
of the UI leaves a lot to be desired.

I have also been steadily uploading pop song ranking lists.
A lot of these lists are derived from major streaming platforms
like spotify, amazon music, apple music etc. Well to be honest
they are MP3 rips of these lists that I am not at liberty to
discuss whether I have downloaded them or not ;-)

I wonder how many of these lists are actually looked at by
humans. It's a little hard for me to believe some of the 
song rankings. Especially around the eras of music I know about
the most, *cough* the 90s. It's not that the lists are bad or
are missing songs but I'm not sure they are ranked correctly  
based on my experience actually listening to top 40 stations in
my youth. But who knows, that was a long time ago and I was
a dumb kid. heh.