Inaugural Phlog Post
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It's been an interesting year for me, and I thought why not round
this up by giving 'phlogging' a try. Within the gophersphere,
this seems to be the universally accepted phrase for trying
to publish a "diary"-style series of posts, the word being
constructed similar to "blog" from "web log"...

The internet doesn't always agree, and so sites consisting mainly
of published photographs being called "phlogs", too. Wonder
whether this will ever cause confusion.

Anyway, I've been eyeing the gophersphere from afar for a while,
mainly by reading some articles on Alex Schroeder's blog[1]. But
I never quite got around to actually working my ways around the
"gophersphere".

Then my tilde.club account came through -- I barely remembered
applying for it. But after playing around with command-line
mail for a while, I also discovered that it offers a neat
"public_gopher" directory, so the hump of publishing my own
stuff is as low as it can possibly get.  With a regular blog,
I get into the bike shedding stuff of picking a blog application
or a static site generator, then what type of style I want etc.

With gopher, it's plain text.

Granted, I probably will get around to writing some scripts for
publishing it here, and to some kind of web "mirror" version of
it, but that's just what I do with repetitive task anyways and
the resulting Perl script is probably going to be rather minimal.

Meanwhile, I'm trying to get a hold of the existing art, by
visiting other phlogs and populating my own moku-pona[2] list.


[1] https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/Diary
[2] https://github.com/kensanata/moku-pona