-- 25-12-24 | finger protocol ------------------------------

finger is nice. i like that you can only have one page, 
rather than a collection of posts that keep on pushing the 
older ones down. i think there's a lot to work with there.

i looked at "Spring '83" and the concept felt a lot like 
finger, and it goot me thinking about having an interface to 
finger that shows the .plan of everyone you follow, in a 
grid-like fashion.

i haven't made anything yet but i'm imagining an 
ncurses-like interface, with maybe 3 columns, and each 
column contains a username and the first 20-or-so chars in 
their .plan file, which you can expand to full-screen view 
when selected.

with the 16 terminal colors there's also the capability of 
coloring different people. if i have a ".following" config 
file it could look like:

emily@tilde.pink brightred
jmjl@tilde.green green

the interface would update once a day, and would keep the 
current content of each .plan cached so that it could sort 
by latest update (or random, if you want?)

but maybe this is over-engineered, and it would be better to 
just have a script 'fingers.sh' that does something like:

printf "\033[01;31m$(finger emily@tilde.pink)
\033[01;32m$(finger jmjl@tilde.green)\n"

and then check for new content with:
./fingers.sh > finger-wall.txt
diff $(./fingers.sh) finger-wall.txt

anyway, just an idea. take care :3

-- 25-12-14 | VF-1 is kinda cute ---------------------------

i played around a bit with ~solderpunk's vf1 gopher browser 
and i enjoy it :3

it feels simple which is nice, it's inspiring me to do some 
more programming of my own.

-- 25-12-10 | spruce forest back up ------------------------

gopher://tilde.pink/1~emily/forest/index.gph

so i'm putting this up again, making another attempt
at managing this thing. i'm keeping everyone who still has
a gopher site on the ring, regardless of whether or not they 
have SFGR links on their page (i've realized it's really not 
required).

come on in and try it out if you want. send me an email 
about it. it's still pretty clumsy but i think it'll be 
fine, uwu

-- 25-12-09 | regarding the spruce forest gopher ring ------

so a few years back i tried making a couple of cgi scripts
that would work as a "web ring" style software for gopher
sites. and it worked well-ish. it had a couple bugs, and
eventually i didn't have the energy to continue maintaining
it, and i took it down entirely.

im hoping to change that in the near future, and i hope i
can keep it somewhat maintained and usable. though maybe 
some more automation could do me well.

i thought briefly about renaming it to 'sakaw' (the nehiyaw
name for forest), but i think 'the spruce forest gopher ring'
has a good ring to it (get it? ring?)

it's not up yet, but this gopherhole is.

along with the spruce forest, i also took down my old posts.
i think i'll keep it that way. i don't mind contributing to
a little bit of bit-rot, as a treat.

anyway. i'll be back on here soon-ish. mwestas!