Phil's Phlog

Gopher musings

Thu, 14 May 2026 09:15:54 +0200

Recently I've been doing more with the fediverse than with Gopher. ...

Activitypub instance

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 06:16:05 +0200

After the mastodon.social DDOS I decided to install my own instance of activitypub....

No rain

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:05:32 +0200

25°C today and it's very dry, which is bad timing as I sowed some grass where an old shed used to be down the bottom of the garden. After all the rain this winter I have to use the hose 🙈...

Spring cleaning

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:46:25 +0200

I've done a bit of spring cleaning recently, I wasn't happy with my online environment but was too lazy to do anything about it until now....

Only in America - facepalm

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:03:14 +0200

"When the police showed up and talked about calling an ambulance, i fled bleeding and limping as though i had perpetrated a crime. The...

Smolfedi - a plain browser Mastodon client

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:37:13 +0200

Unfortunately there isn't a gopher - fediverse gateway that I know of (let me know)...

Arch Linux deletes Xlibre page - Artix says thanks

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:37:54 +0200

This stupid political behavior is just going to push more people to Artix Linux....

on splitting bashrc

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:57:09 +0200

I read sava's phlog on splitting bashrc and I quite agree as I did it myself, with the difference that my files are in .config/shell/...

Too many domains

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:51:54 +0200

Due to historical reasons I found myself owning too many domains, so I made an executive decision to cut them down to size....

Added maximize patch to dwm 6.8

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:02:51 +0200

I've manually added the maximize and fullscreen patches to my already patched copy of dwm 6.8...

Artix autoupdate

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:15:59 +0200

If I'm using Artix Linux on a server, I need some kind of autoupdate mechanism....

Installing Gophernicus on Artix Linux

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:57:26 +0200

In my quest for removing systemd, I've opted for running my gopher server on Artix Linux/dinit instead of Debian....

Gopher to html in Chawan

Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:00:12 +0200

The one little annoyance while using Chawan to browse Gopher Holes was in rendering 'i' selectors. These get translated into

 tags in Chawan, but sometimes resulted in extra or missing lines when empty 'i' selectors were encountered. ...

Bring an old laptop to life with Artix and DWM

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:33:19 +0200

I read Sava's post about using Arch with DWM on old computers [1] and I wanted to add that I do the same but with Artix instead of Arch because I have a not-so-rare allergy. ...

Limits and rules

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:53:00 +0200

Reading some of the GrapheneOS vs. e/OS social media comments reminds me of some of the absolutist arguments put forward by extremists in various domains. ...

Cold fermented bread

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:50:21 +0200

🥖🥖🥖🥖...

Jabber

Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:04:03 +0100

I've finally set up an xmpp (Jabber) account. To do this I registered an xmpp.social account at https://hookipa.net/register/new/ ...

Home server up and running

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 10:41:49 +0100

This gopher hole is now running on my home server, a Thinkpad T430....

Jack the DVD ripper

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:05:55 +0100

I wrote me a little DVD ripping script for my DVD collection. ...

Ripping DVD's for fun

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:40:15 +0100

My back is playing up again, so I amused myself by writing a bash script to store my legally purchased DVD's on my old Synology NAS, so I can play them via the media player on my smart TV....

Apps I'm using on my de-googled phone

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 14:36:50 +0100

## Update on my Fairphone 6 installation....

Re. Thoughts on my smartphone

Sat, 07 Feb 2026 23:35:39 +0100

And the winner is ......

Thoughts on my smartphone

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:00:57 +0100

I have a Samsung A53, and I realised that I've been spending too much time lamely scrolling through youtube instead of going to bed. So I deactivated the app, because Google doesn't want you removing...

American immigrants

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:45:53 +0100

I've noticed an increase in the number of Youtube videos from American immigrants in France. From detailing their "shock" of the cultural differences, to their love of our universal health care, a slower life,...

Short lived fear

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:07:08 +0100

Stumbling around gopher in my pyjamas this morning I saw an inline picture [1]. Before snapping my laptop shut in wretched fear, I checked to see if the sky had darkened. It hadn't, so what is this infamous devilry? Turns out it's just that it's a markdown file, and as I'm running Chawan in Kitty it automatically displays .md files with image content. Phew, I almost ran to church....

67 or not 67

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 08:55:01 +0100

Visiting Chris O'Donnell's gopher hole [1] I realised that my favorite gopher browser, Chawan, didn't word wrap text by default. I fixed this [2] with a configuration parameter but started thinking about text width....

Chawan update: query autofocus

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:09:50 +0100

The author of Chawan used W3M as a model, although it is written from scratch in Nim....

Chawan browser plaintext wrap

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:42:11 +0100

Something I hadn't noticed when browsing gopher holes with Chawan was that plain text files were not having their text wrapped to the...

Google's AI personal data vacuum cleaner

Sun, 25 Jan 2026 13:49:04 +0100

Google announced that it's going to feed its AI your Gmail messages, as well as the whole deep surveillance dossier the...

A gopher server in Bash

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 09:18:20 +0100

Not long ago I stumbled on Dave Eddy's http server written in Bash. I wondered if I could fork it into a gopher server, so I fiddled...

Xdm simple theme for dinit

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:57:09 +0100

I like the simplicity of XDM, but the default theme is rough. I came across a nice simple theme made for systemd and I adapted it...

Back to DWM

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:52:30 +0100

I'm done experimenting with making XFCE4 DWM-ish, and I'm back to using DWM. It suits my 1366x768 screen much better as it gives me...

Bash language server for Micro editor

Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:57:57 +0100

I use micro as my terminal text editor. I'm not in love with gui text editors or IDE's. One thing I was missing is a language server...

Using Xfce4 with Devilspie2

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 10:24:49 +0100

Happy New Year!...