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Gemini Chess

Fri, Jun 7, 2024 - 600 Words

I’ve had a go at making a two-player chess game for Gemini. If you want to try it out it is available at the link below. There is also a version of wordle there, though I made this before I realised that there is already a much better wordle clone available on gemini, Wordo.
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Offline Week July 2022

Sun, Aug 7, 2022 - 1100 Words

A week ago, I switched my life to being primarily ‘offline’. Or, perhaps it is better to say I took steps in that direction. I was still online during working hours, and I left the messaging apps on my phone online.
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Gitlog Client

Wed, Oct 27, 2021 - 200 Words

This is a short followup to my previous post. Gitlog on Port 9418 The more I think about Solderpunk’s idea, the more I love it. I also really loved this recent post by mntn, which seems to provide a good solution to the question of linking:
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Gitlog on port 9418

Tue, Oct 26, 2021 - 2200 Words

This post is written in response to the fascinating post by Solderpunk: Solderpunk - Low budget p2p content distribution with git It’s a long post, but riveting. I just wanted it to keep going and going.
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Auto-Making a Gemini Index

Sun, Apr 11, 2021 - 500 Words

A few days ago on Mastodon, I came across a very useful toot by Fixato. He had provided a comprehensive shell command for updating you TLS certificates in light of the recent update to the agate server.
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Gemini Capsule Update

Wed, Mar 31, 2021 - 400 Words

Nothing much to report here. I updated the capsule structure to try make it more minimal and even easier to manage. Now, I only have one page (Gemlog) for all my posts.
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Comitium and Gopher

Sun, Mar 21, 2021 - 400 Words

I’ve added a new ‘feed’ section to my capsule. It uses ‘comitium’ by alex/nytpu. Alex’s Capsule Comitium The timing of comitium’s release was perfect. I have recently been browsing gopher a lot more and I was missing the ability to subscribe to feeds.
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Smolnet

Sat, Mar 20, 2021 - 600 Words

More on the alternative internet.
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Problems with Gemini 1

Sun, Feb 21, 2021 - 900 Words

Problems, in the best sense Much of the Gemini ‘content’ I’ve found so far, at least, some of the most engaging and unique, centers on technical questions about Gemini itself - how to set it up, navigate it, write in it, etc.
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Problems with Gemini 2

Sun, Feb 21, 2021 - 1000 Words

Navigation Part 1 A problem: ephemerality: content seems less ‘solid’ than on the web, less well mapped out and less defined. A corresponding idea: ‘Maps’ are ways of drawing boundaries, of creating identities.
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