i was sick for about a week, and spent most of the time 
bedbound writing scheme code. i was looking at ~solderpunk's 
description of the "mercury protocol", a 
semi-defined gopher-like protocol. i was also inspired by 
the VF-1 gopher client.

using chez scheme and the akku package manager, i made an 
ALMOST pure r6rs implementation of the server/client 
software (it has a few chez-isms, but i'll work those out in 
the future).

- the server is called 'anikwacas' (squirrel)
- the client is called 'mahkesis' (client)

i call the combined server/client suite "tastapiwin" 
('quick-moving', as mercury is 'the quick-moving star' 
"tastapiwatahk")

it is not amazing, as i spent a lot of the time learning how 
sockets work (i'm probably not using them correctly), and 
remembering some scheme syntax, since it's been a while.

gopher://inlisp.org/1/users/wapakosis/files/tastapiwin.tar

i made a little website for the software too, just for fun. 
there's a story that goes with it :)

https://wapakosis.inlisp.org/tastapiwin.html

2025-12-22