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       == Miscellaneous ==
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 (HTM) HTTP website <aiwein.sdf.org>
       
 (DIR) 2019-06-27  projects/ -- Assorted hacks
 (DIR) 2019-08-09  files/ -- Interesting files
 (DIR) 2019-07-10  notes/ -- Assorted notes
 (TXT) 2022-08-01  tw.txt -- TwTXT feed
       
       == Phlog ==
 (DIR) 2022-08-15 Dillo's quirks & DPIs for gopher & gemini
       
       Dillo's website has been parked since ~May of this year, its
       development had slowed down considerably and it is probably as
       dead a browser can be, so I'm not sure how many people are
       actually going to write - or bother using - new plugins (DPI)
       for it, but, just in case:
       
        - it already looks into =~/.dillo/dpi= by default, so there is
          no need to add another =dpi_dir= entry into =~/.dillo/dpidrc=
          (in fact, I'm pretty sure it just reads the first one)
        - it doesn't seem to cope too well with multiple .dpi files in
          any given DPI subdirectory.
       
       I learned of this when, having installed a second DPI to handle
       =gemini:= links, I decided to not bother with deleting the
       executable, and to just rename it by giving it an =old.= prefix.
       
       It worked, until I tried using it two days later and it suddenly
       didn't: having closed the dillo instance, dpid - and the
       association between the protocol and the executable - presumably
       went with it, with the error manifesting itself as a series of
       
           Dpi_get_server_port: can't read server port from dpid.
       
       lines in the dillo output.
       
       Fixing it was trivial; figuring out /how/ to fix it, slightly
       less so.
       
       Incidentally, the DPIs I have been using are Charles E. Lehner's
       =dillo-gopher= and =dillo-gemini=, licensed with GPLv3 and FSF
       All-Permissive License respectively, and available as Git repos
       through Secure Scuttlebutt:
 (HTM) cel/dillo-gopher
 (HTM) cel/dillo-gemini
       
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       On a slightly different note, I took a stab at revising the
       troff macros I use to generate this phlog (and that I'd also
       like to use to generate a blog/gemlog): I spent five minutes
       adding inline formatting, and wasted the whole afternoon trying
       to figure out how to stop =grohtml= from wrapping its output at
       ~64 columns.  It's /mostly/ a non-issue, but as I am likely to
       use preformatted text, I'd like to avoid messing *that*up.
       
       I ended up settling on mangling the HTML in post-processing -
       awk to the rescue! - but that's just an ugly hack, one I figure
       I'll have to dig into the grohtml code to fix.
       
       Or I might just stop forcing troff to do the text formatting.
       
       Decisions, decisions.
       
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