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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) 2025-12-01 HTTP is not simple
(DIR) 2025-11-18 I guess I'm never paying DreamHost back
(DIR) 2025-11-05 The Signal and the Noise is still excellent
(DIR) 2025-09-04 The Beer Token
(DIR) 2025-08-06 Internet Services^H Provider
(DIR) 2025-08-05 Part of the Internet, or connecting to the Internet?
(DIR) 2025-07-23 Lock All The Computers
(DIR) 2025-06-28 The Huge Grey Area in the Anthropic Ruling
(DIR) 2025-06-09 Bored Gay Werewolf by Tony Santorella
(DIR) 2025-06-07 I Wrote the Same Code Six Times!
(DIR) 2025-05-21 Google Shared My Phone Number!
(DIR) 2025-03-29 Delivery Songs
(DIR) 2025-03-22 Feed Readers Beat Doomscrolling
(DIR) 2025-03-19 WebDX: Does More Mean Better?
(DIR) 2025-03-14 Work Slippers
(DIR) 2025-02-27 A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
(DIR) 2025-02-18 WordPress to ClassicPress
(DIR) 2025-02-17 Frustrating At Scale
(DIR) 2025-02-17 Queers make the world a safer place
(DIR) 2025-02-08 BBC News RSS... your way!
(DIR) 2025-02-05 Reading more rolled papyri
(DIR) 2025-02-03 BBC News RSS... with the sport?
(DIR) 2025-01-21 Sabbatical Lesson #1: Boundaries
(DIR) 2025-01-12 James Acaster's Classic Scrapes
(DIR) 2025-01-07 Entitled by Kate Manne
(DIR) 2024-12-12 Moving Three Rings' Servers
(DIR) 2024-12-01 99 Days of Blogging
(DIR) 2024-11-16 Sadder Than Fiction
(DIR) 2024-10-27 Hour of Ambiguity
(DIR) 2024-10-24 How I Learned to Enjoy Pickled Onion Monster Munch
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(HTM) www: Dan's main blog
(HTM) gemini: Dan's gemini capsule
(HTM) spartan: Dan's spartan instance
(HTM) finger: Dan's finger server
(HTM) fedi: @dan@danq.me
(HTM) email: gopherhole@danq.me