I'm now in the process of switching to a self hosted server for this fediverse stuff.
My new account is @[email protected]
Charles Childers
@crc
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Programmer. Developer of Retro Forth, Gopher servers and clients, and several iOS apps. Co-founder DC Comtech.
@szczezuja a lot of interesting things end up requiring non-standard extensions to the protocol.
As an example, you can use queries to do some limited updates to data remotely, but the standard only allows for short strings to be passed via this; you'd need to extend it to support something like a wiki. E.g., https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2017-12-30_Gopher_Wiki
@szczezuja These protocols are simple, clean, and very useful for their problem domains. Providing an application platform isn't the goal.
They can be stretched a bit (e.g., via cgi, as with gopher.floodgap.com:70/1/fun or by using paths of selectors to hold some state), and I've used specially crafted gopher servers for a block storage backend for a forth system and in implementing a kind of wiki. But neither protocol is designed for this, and that's ok.
I've finally managed to get a version of Retro's VM working under OpenBSD using system calls instead of linking with libc.
This has eluded me for a long time; I'm pleased to finally be able to proceed on this front as I'd prefer to avoid using libc when possible.
Next step is to figure out how to rewrite the NASM assembly in AT&T syntax so I can just use the standard toolchain on OpenBSD & FreeBSD...
@vazub I have not tried this yet. I'll see if I can get some when I order more tea soon.
Taking @vazub suggestion, this morning is dedicated to oolong.
At 8:30, I'm 14 oz in, with a second pot ready to go. I'm drinking a roasted oolong (# ZO20, from Upton Tea) My stock on this is a little past its prime, but it's still enjoyable.
(I'm overdue to order in a fresh batch of tea; I'm nearing the end of most of my varieties, other than some of the shóu.)
lis 森狐@crc god i miss jinjunmei tea so much... 🥲
Today is a green tea day.
I started with genmaicha. I always enjoy this, though I initially had the water too hot, burning the tea slightly. Subsequent steeps were better.
Total: 25 oz.
Since lunch time I've been steeping sencha. It's good, but I find it to be more troublesome with steep times if I want to avoid bitterness.
Total: 20 oz.
I was planning to also have hōjicha, but discovered that my tin was empty. I'll check my reserves at home as I thought I still had plenty of this.
kline 🏴@technomancy Andrew is just playing the martyr, getting us to write better governance frameworks in a way he'd never have been able to achieve from the outside.