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| author | Paul Buetow <paul@buetow.org> | 2021-06-05 10:14:06 +0100 |
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| committer | Paul Buetow <paul@buetow.org> | 2021-06-05 10:14:06 +0100 |
| commit | 5f3dc597fea303030361e17ad25598529681d496 (patch) | |
| tree | 634bca04e80fa5ad1f8a440487976361b5c1d4c9 | |
| parent | ab6c27be145befb4c0a216cc47999b7e167328d7 (diff) | |
Publishing new version
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diff --git a/gemfeed/2021-04-24-welcome-to-the-geminispace.html b/gemfeed/2021-04-24-welcome-to-the-geminispace.html index 268ab9c6..f4e0d194 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2021-04-24-welcome-to-the-geminispace.html +++ b/gemfeed/2021-04-24-welcome-to-the-geminispace.html @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ h2, h3 { </head> <body> <h1>Welcome to the Geminispace</h1> -<p class="quote"><i>Written by Paul Buetow 2021-04-24, last updated 2021-04-30, ASCII Art by Andy Hood</i></p> +<p class="quote"><i>Written by Paul Buetow 2021-04-24, last updated 2021-06-05, ASCII Art by Andy Hood</i></p> <p>Have you reached this article already via Gemini? It requires a Gemini client; web browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, Safari, etc., don't support the Gemini protocol. The Gemini address of this site (or the address of this capsule as people say in Geminispace) is:</p> <a class="textlink" href="gemini://buetow.org">gemini://buetow.org</a><br /> <p>However, if you still use HTTP, you are just surfing the fallback HTML version of this capsule. In that case, I suggest reading on what this is all about :-).</p> @@ -80,8 +80,9 @@ h2, h3 { <p>All I wanted was to read an interesting article, but after a big advertising pop-up banner appeared and made everything worse, I gave up and closed the browser tab.</p> <h2>Discovering the Gemini internet protocol</h2> <p>Around the same time, I discovered a relatively new, more lightweight protocol named Gemini, which does not support all these CPU-intensive features like HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. Also, tracking and ads are unsupported by the Gemini protocol.</p> -<p>The "downside" is that due to the limited capabilities of the Gemini protocol, all sites look very old and spartan. But that is not a downside; that is, in fact, a design choice people made. It is up to the client software how your capsule looks. For example, you could use a graphical client with nice font renderings and colours to improve the appearance. Or you could use a very minimalistic command line black-and-white Gemini client. It's your (the user's) choice.</p> +<p>The "downside" is that due to the limited capabilities of the Gemini protocol, all sites look very old and spartan. But that is not a downside; that is, in fact, a design choice people made. It is up to the client software how your capsule looks. For example, you could use a graphical client, such as Lagrange, with nice font renderings and colours to improve the appearance. Or you could use a very minimalistic command line black-and-white Gemini client. It's your (the user's) choice.</p> <i>Screenshot Amfora Gemini terminal client surfing this site:</i><a href="./2021-04-24-welcome-to-the-geminispace/amfora-screenshot.png"><img alt="Screenshot Amfora Gemini terminal client surfing this site" title="Screenshot Amfora Gemini terminal client surfing this site" src="./2021-04-24-welcome-to-the-geminispace/amfora-screenshot.png" /></a><br /> +<i>Screenshot graphical Lagrange Gemini client surfing this site:</i><a href="./2021-04-24-welcome-to-the-geminispace/lagrange-screenshot.png"><img alt="Screenshot graphical Lagrange Gemini client surfing this site" title="Screenshot graphical Lagrange Gemini client surfing this site" src="./2021-04-24-welcome-to-the-geminispace/lagrange-screenshot.png" /></a><br /> <p>Why is there a need for a new protocol? As the modern web is a superset of Gemini, can't we use simple HTML 1.0 instead? That's a good and valid question. It is not a technical problem but a human problem. We tend to abuse the features once they are available. You can ensure that things stay efficient and straightforward as long as you are using the Gemini protocol. On the other hand, you can't force every website on the modern web to only create plain and straightforward-looking HTML pages.</p> <h2>My own Gemini capsule</h2> <p>As it is effortless to set up and maintain your own Gemini capsule (Gemini server + content composed via the Gemtext markup language), I decided to create my own. What I like about Gemini is that I can use my favourite text editor and get typing. I don't need to worry about the style and design of the presence, and I also don't have to test anything in ten different web browsers. I can only focus on the content! As a matter of fact, I am using the Vim editor + its spellchecker + auto word completion functionality to write this. </p> diff --git a/gemfeed/2021-04-24-welcome-to-the-geminispace/lagrange-screenshot.png b/gemfeed/2021-04-24-welcome-to-the-geminispace/lagrange-screenshot.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 00000000..478d2fdd --- /dev/null +++ b/gemfeed/2021-04-24-welcome-to-the-geminispace/lagrange-screenshot.png diff --git a/gemfeed/atom.xml b/gemfeed/atom.xml index 0309ec08..0c40c208 100644 --- a/gemfeed/atom.xml +++ b/gemfeed/atom.xml @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> - <updated>2021-05-25T19:37:12+01:00</updated> + <updated>2021-06-05T10:13:46+01:00</updated> <title>buetow.org feed</title> <subtitle>Having fun with computers!</subtitle> <link href="https://buetow.org/gemfeed/atom.xml" rel="self" /> @@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ fi <content type="xhtml"> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <h1>Welcome to the Geminispace</h1> -<p class="quote"><i>Written by Paul Buetow 2021-04-24, last updated 2021-04-30, ASCII Art by Andy Hood</i></p> +<p class="quote"><i>Written by Paul Buetow 2021-04-24, last updated 2021-06-05, ASCII Art by Andy Hood</i></p> <p>Have you reached this article already via Gemini? It requires a Gemini client; web browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, Safari, etc., don't support the Gemini protocol. The Gemini address of this site (or the address of this capsule as people say in Geminispace) is:</p> <a class="textlink" href="https://buetow.org">https://buetow.org</a><br /> <p>However, if you still use HTTP, you are just surfing the fallback HTML version of this capsule. In that case, I suggest reading on what this is all about :-).</p> @@ -358,8 +358,9 @@ fi <p>All I wanted was to read an interesting article, but after a big advertising pop-up banner appeared and made everything worse, I gave up and closed the browser tab.</p> <h2>Discovering the Gemini internet protocol</h2> <p>Around the same time, I discovered a relatively new, more lightweight protocol named Gemini, which does not support all these CPU-intensive features like HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. Also, tracking and ads are unsupported by the Gemini protocol.</p> -<p>The "downside" is that due to the limited capabilities of the Gemini protocol, all sites look very old and spartan. But that is not a downside; that is, in fact, a design choice people made. It is up to the client software how your capsule looks. For example, you could use a graphical client with nice font renderings and colours to improve the appearance. Or you could use a very minimalistic command line black-and-white Gemini client. It's your (the user's) choice.</p> +<p>The "downside" is that due to the limited capabilities of the Gemini protocol, all sites look very old and spartan. But that is not a downside; that is, in fact, a design choice people made. It is up to the client software how your capsule looks. For example, you could use a graphical client, such as Lagrange, with nice font renderings and colours to improve the appearance. Or you could use a very minimalistic command line black-and-white Gemini client. It's your (the user's) choice.</p> <i>Screenshot Amfora Gemini terminal client surfing this site:</i><a href="https://buetow.org/gemfeed/2021-04-24-welcome-to-the-geminispace/amfora-screenshot.png"><img alt="Screenshot Amfora Gemini terminal client surfing this site" title="Screenshot Amfora Gemini terminal client surfing this site" src="https://buetow.org/gemfeed/2021-04-24-welcome-to-the-geminispace/amfora-screenshot.png" /></a><br /> +<i>Screenshot graphical Lagrange Gemini client surfing this site:</i><a href="https://buetow.org/gemfeed/2021-04-24-welcome-to-the-geminispace/lagrange-screenshot.png"><img alt="Screenshot graphical Lagrange Gemini client surfing this site" title="Screenshot graphical Lagrange Gemini client surfing this site" src="https://buetow.org/gemfeed/2021-04-24-welcome-to-the-geminispace/lagrange-screenshot.png" /></a><br /> <p>Why is there a need for a new protocol? As the modern web is a superset of Gemini, can't we use simple HTML 1.0 instead? That's a good and valid question. It is not a technical problem but a human problem. We tend to abuse the features once they are available. You can ensure that things stay efficient and straightforward as long as you are using the Gemini protocol. On the other hand, you can't force every website on the modern web to only create plain and straightforward-looking HTML pages.</p> <h2>My own Gemini capsule</h2> <p>As it is effortless to set up and maintain your own Gemini capsule (Gemini server + content composed via the Gemtext markup language), I decided to create my own. What I like about Gemini is that I can use my favourite text editor and get typing. I don't need to worry about the style and design of the presence, and I also don't have to test anything in ten different web browsers. I can only focus on the content! As a matter of fact, I am using the Vim editor + its spellchecker + auto word completion functionality to write this. </p> diff --git a/gemfeed/index.html b/gemfeed/index.html index beb08fae..6171d83a 100644 --- a/gemfeed/index.html +++ b/gemfeed/index.html @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ h2, h3 { <h1>buetow.org's Gemfeed</h1> <h2>Having fun with computers!</h2> <a class="textlink" href="./2021-05-16-personal-bash-coding-style-guide.html">2021-05-16 (1717 words) - Personal Bash coding style guide</a><br /> -<a class="textlink" href="./2021-04-24-welcome-to-the-geminispace.html">2021-04-24 (0759 words) - Welcome to the Geminispace</a><br /> +<a class="textlink" href="./2021-04-24-welcome-to-the-geminispace.html">2021-04-24 (0772 words) - Welcome to the Geminispace</a><br /> <a class="textlink" href="./2021-04-22-dtail-the-distributed-log-tail-program.html">2021-04-22 (2117 words) - DTail - The distributed log tail program</a><br /> <a class="textlink" href="./2018-06-01-realistic-load-testing-with-ioriot-for-linux.html">2018-06-01 (2171 words) - Realistic load testing with I/O Riot for Linux</a><br /> <a class="textlink" href="./2016-11-20-methods-in-c.html">2016-11-20 (0314 words) - Methods in C</a><br /> @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ h2, h3 { <h3>Posts</h3> <p>I have switched blog software multiple times. I might be backfilling some of the older articles here. So please don't wonder when suddenly old posts appear here.</p> <a class="textlink" href="./gemfeed/2021-05-16-personal-bash-coding-style-guide.html">2021-05-16 (1717 words) - Personal Bash coding style guide</a><br /> -<a class="textlink" href="./gemfeed/2021-04-24-welcome-to-the-geminispace.html">2021-04-24 (0759 words) - Welcome to the Geminispace</a><br /> +<a class="textlink" href="./gemfeed/2021-04-24-welcome-to-the-geminispace.html">2021-04-24 (0772 words) - Welcome to the Geminispace</a><br /> <a class="textlink" href="./gemfeed/2021-04-22-dtail-the-distributed-log-tail-program.html">2021-04-22 (2117 words) - DTail - The distributed log tail program</a><br /> <a class="textlink" href="./gemfeed/2018-06-01-realistic-load-testing-with-ioriot-for-linux.html">2018-06-01 (2171 words) - Realistic load testing with I/O Riot for Linux</a><br /> <a class="textlink" href="./gemfeed/2016-11-20-methods-in-c.html">2016-11-20 (0314 words) - Methods in C</a><br /> |
