It has been somewhat quiet on  the circumlunar gopher front recently, so
here's  a quick  post to  break the  silence. (And a tip  of the  hat to
KataolaZ for  contributing to  this post  by letting  me know  about the
great 'par' commannd [1].)

Since I first started up in circumlunar.space, I've been so busy off the
keyboard that  it has been a  real struggle at times  to participate and
contribute in the ways I think I should. I've finally accepted that I'll
follow a 15-minutes-a-day  plan. This allows me to keep  up with some of
gopher space, and  gives me a little  time to slowly peck away  at a few
projects (sometimes painfully slowly...).

I've been doing  this 15-minutes-a-day plan for several  months now, and
finally have  a few "products"  to show for it.  In the spirit  of time,
I'll list them out very briefly here:

~ Linkulator ~
git://dome.circumlunar.space/~cmccabe/linkulator
A  command  line link  aggregator,  like  Y  Combinator Hacker  News  or
Lobste.rs,  but purely  for the  command line  in small,  trusting shell
communities  like pubnixes.  This  is very  much  still in  development,
including  adding  and  polishing features,  and  removing  catastrophic
security bugs. Little things, of course.

~ Space Launch ~
git://dome.circumlunar.space/~cmccabe/spacelaunch
A  new  version  of  the  classic  Unix  prank  called  'sl'  (or  Steam
Locomotive).  While  'sl' ran  a  steam  engine  train across  a  user's
terminal  when they  mistyped 'ls'  as 'sl',  my version  will launch  a
rocket vertically  through the terminal. But  it is also designed  for a
multi-user,  pubnix environment  in the  sense  that the  rocket can  be
collaboratively built.  Each user  in the system  can create  a '.vroom'
file which provides segments to the rocket.  When  someone types 'sl', a
rocket  is built from a random  selection of  segments  from across  the
userbase and launched into orbit.

And finally:

~ Public Access Unix History Documentation Project ~
https://github.com/cwmccabe/pubnixhist
A collaborative project to document current and historical public access
Unix (and GNU/Linux!) systems. As you may know, there have been a lot of
them. Modern  systems include  both places like  SDF, circumlunar.space,
and Grex, as well as the exploding population of the Tildeverse.  I will
be writing a lot more about this project in future gopher posts.

All of  these projects,  and especially the  Public Access  Unix History
Documentation Project, are  open to collaboration. For me,  the most fun
part of pubnixes is collaborative work projects. I do love gopher, but I
really like collaborating with other people!

Welp, that's my fifteen minutes for today. See you all tomorrow.

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[1] gopher:// republic.circumlunar.space/0/~katolaz/phlog/20190213_fold.txt