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Contains selected posts from my blog, and ocassional content exclusive to my
Gopherhole.
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I've always had a soft spot for Gopher. I was fortunate enough to take my
first steps on the Internet back when Gopher was still around, and while even
then it seemed clear to me that the Web would "win" and render Gopher
obsolete, I witnessed debates with its fans who argued passionately for
Gopher's benefits.
Gopher never died, of course: not completely. It still runs wild and free on
the modern Internet. It's even enjoyed a minor resurgence in popularity in
recent years, as the "smolnet" has taken root and people have taken an
interest in reinventing the simpler, safer, faster, lighter, and
more-interpersonal Internet.
I believe that Gemini is our best bet for a future "Gopher-like" system, but I
think that Gemini, Spartan and Gopher all have their own interesting charms.
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My Gopherhole mostly acts as a partial mirror of my weblog. Want to see?
DIR 2024-10-14 Firsts and Lasts
DIR 2024-10-08 Hurricane Milton
DIR 2024-10-04 Heaven Can Wait
DIR 2024-09-28 What if Emails were Multilingual?
DIR 2024-09-05 Idea: Meeting Spoofer
DIR 2024-08-29 Roll Your Own Antispam
DIR 2024-08-20 Easy Socialising
DIR 2024-07-29 Shared Email Addresses
DIR 2024-07-19 Good Food, Bad Authorisation
DIR 2024-07-16 Vmail via FreshRSS
DIR 2024-07-09 A Pressure Cooker for Tea
DIR 2024-07-02 Ranking Every Elevator in the Myst Series
DIR 2024-07-01 Information Trajectory
DIR 2024-06-20 Special Roads
DIR 2024-06-04 Somewhat-Effective Spam Filters
DIR 2024-06-01 Framing Device
DIR 2024-05-15 Don't Ask, Don't Teach
DIR 2024-05-09 A completely plaintext WordPress Theme
DIR 2024-05-03 Does a blog have to be HTML?
DIR 2024-05-01 Test your site in Lynx
DIR 2024-04-28 Window Tax
DIR 2024-04-27 5 Cool Apps for your Unraid NAS
DIR 2024-04-13 Council Disenfranchisement
DIR 2024-04-03 you are a printer we are all printers
DIR 2024-03-28 Quickly Solving JigsawExplorer Puzzles
DIR 2024-03-27 Oxford's Area Code at OGN 57
DIR 2024-03-09 BBC News... without the crap
DIR 2024-03-08 RSS > ActivityPub
DIR 2024-02-22 Sonarr > Huginn > Slack
DIR 2024-02-19 Freedom of the Mountain
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HTML www: Dan's main blog
HTML gemini: Dan's gemini capsule
HTML spartan: Dan's spartan instance
HTML finger: Dan's finger server
HTML fedi: @dan@danq.me
HTML email: gopherhole@danq.me