2018-02-05 Moku Pona
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Inspired by Bongusta, I wrote a simple Gopher aggregator using Perl
and called it moku pona which is toki pona for good food, or tasty,
in other words a translation of Bongusta.
Take a look: moku pona sources & documentation.
Its output is a gopher menu you can browse yourself or host
publically. It looks a bit like the Recent Changes of a wiki. New
items show up at the top and disappear from the bottom so everybody is
just mentioned once.
Here’s how I added everybody who has posted to Gopher Club in 2018:
mkdir -p ~/.moku-pona
echo /phlogs/ | nc sdf.org 70 \
| sed -ne "s/\[[0-9][0-9]-[A-Z][a-z][a-z]-2018\] *//p" \
>> ~/.moku-pona/sites.txt
Then I clicked through them all, trying to see whether they were
actually active, and whether I felt I might want to read some more,
and removed the little comments for each username, and here we are:
moku-pona add sdf.org:70/1/users/auzymoto/phlog "auzymoto"
moku-pona add sdf.org:70/1/users/bradmac/Log "bradmac"
moku-pona add sdf.org:70/1/users/cat/phlog "cat"
moku-pona add sdf.org:70/1/users/cpider/ "cpider"
moku-pona add sdf.org:70/1/users/daphne/ "daphne"
moku-pona add sdf.org:70/1/users/gunnarfrost/ "gunnarfrost"
moku-pona add sdf.org:70/1/users/imrowan/ "imrowan"
moku-pona add grex.org:70/1/%7ejandal/phlog "jandal"
moku-pona add sdf.org:70/1/users/jebug29/log "jebug29"
moku-pona add sdf.org:70/1/users/jirka/Phlog/ "jirka"
moku-pona add sdf.org:70/1/users/jynx/phlog/ "jynx"
moku-pona add sdf.org:70/1/users/jzp/phlog "jzp"
moku-pona add alexschroeder.ch:70 "kensanata"
moku-pona add sdf.org:70/1/users/kvothe/phlog "kvothe"
moku-pona add i-logout.cz:70/1/en/phlog/ "logout"
moku-pona add sdf.org:70/1/users/melton/phlog "melton"
moku-pona add sdf.org:70/1/users/mhj/phlog "mhj"
moku-pona add sdf.org:70/1/users/notptr/ "notptr"
moku-pona add sdf.org:70/1/users/nydel/phlog "nydel"
moku-pona add grex.org:70/1/~papa/pgphlog/2018 "papa"
moku-pona add sdf.org:70/1/users/pet84rik/BLOG "pet84rik"
moku-pona add sdf.org:70/1/users/psztrnk/log "psztrnk"
moku-pona add sdf.org:70/1/users/slugmax/phlog "slugmax"
moku-pona add sdf.org:70/1/users/snowdusk/phlog "snowdusk"
moku-pona add sdf.org:70/1/users/solderpunk/phlog "solderpunk"
moku-pona add sdf.org:70/1/users/sparcipx/phlog "sparcipx"
moku-pona add sdf.org:70/1/users/sysdharma/phlog "sysdharma"
moku-pona add sdf.org:70/1/users/tfurrows/phlog "tfurrows"
moku-pona add sdf.org:70/1/users/tomasino/phlog "tomasino"
moku-pona add uninformativ.de:70/1/twitpher "uninformativ"
moku-pona add sdf.org:70/1/users/xmanmonk/phlog "xmanmonk"
moku-pona add sdf.org:70/1/users/yargo/glog "yargo"
moku-pona add sdf.org:70/1/users/zelbrium/ "zelbrium"
moku-pona add zelibertinegamer.me:70/1/phlog/ "zlg"
moku-pona add uberspace.net:70/1/~defanor/ "defanor"
moku-pona add dataswamp.org:70/1/~solene/ "solene"
Next, update the list:
moku-pona update
And then read it. You’ll get most of the benefit when you run it the
next day, of course. That’s when you’ll see updated phlogs move to the
top. 😄
vf1 ~/.moku-pona/updates.txt
Yeah, VF-1 is the best Gopher client. 😃
#Gopher #Moku_Pona #Moku_Pona
Comments
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(Please contact me if you want to remove your comment.)
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Things that make me sad:
$ moku-pona update
Fetching auzymoto...unchanged
Fetching bradmac...unchanged
Fetching cat...unchanged
Fetching cpider...unchanged
Fetching daphne...unchanged
Fetching gunnarfrost...unchanged
Fetching imrowan...unchanged
Fetching jandal...unchanged
Fetching jebug29...unchanged
Fetching jirka...unchanged
Fetching jynx...unchanged
Fetching jzp...unchanged
Fetching kensanata...unchanged
Fetching kvothe...unchanged
Fetching logout...unchanged
Fetching melton...unchanged
Fetching mhj...unchanged
Fetching notptr...unchanged
Fetching nydel...unchanged
Fetching papa...unchanged
Fetching pet84rik...unchanged
Fetching psztrnk...unchanged
Fetching slugmax...unchanged
Fetching snowdusk...unchanged
Fetching solderpunk...unchanged
Fetching sparcipx...unchanged
Fetching sysdharma...unchanged
Fetching tfurrows...unchanged
Fetching tomasino...unchanged
Fetching uninformativ...unchanged
Fetching xmanmonk...unchanged
Fetching yargo...unchanged
Fetching zelbrium...unchanged
Fetching zlg...unchanged
– Alex Schroeder 2018-02-05 14:18 UTC
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Today I am traveling and I realized that moku pona needs to be
installed online somewhere!
– Alex 2018-02-06 07:34 UTC
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Thank you, kvothe, for the nice words about moku pona. This warms my
heart.
– Alex 2018-02-06 17:19 UTC
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Then again, psztrnk is critical of aggregating in the first place.
I’m not sure what to say to that.
– Alex Schroeder 2018-02-06 20:27 UTC
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What about Bongusta, asks logout. I don’t know. Bongusta was the
first site where I saw phlogs from outside SDF. That was very
important for me, and I imagine it will remain important in the
future. Having a well known starting point is important.
Plus, if gopherspace grows, we will soon run into preferences. Perhaps
I would like to avoid this phlog or that phlog, or I’ll want to add a
phlog that somebody else doesn’t want to add. The freedom to do
different is important to me, even if there is no immediate need for
it right now.
It’s cool to have a tool that enables people to run their own
aggregators without people feeling like they need to. It’s like any
other freedom: you are free to service your own car, but you are also
free to take a cab, or hitch a ride, or anything else. How many
different kinds of public aggregators will we need in a world where 28
of 36 phlogs I follow are on SDF and I guess the total number of sites
I might be interested in is not much more than that? One? Two? Three?
Not much more than that is my guess. And that’s why Bongusta
absolutely has a place, even if there are tools that enable other
people to run similar sites. So, having the freedom to run an
aggregator is super cool, even if there is just a need to run one or
two.
In short, I would love for Bongusta to stay. 😄
– Alex Schroeder 2018-02-06 20:50 UTC
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And then there’s auzymoto’s post talking about two kinds of
subscriptions: subscribe to changes to a gophermap like moku pona
does. or actually spider a site and look for changes. Auzymoto also
lists some pitfalls for this: links leaving the site, circular links,
stuff like that. And I’d also think about all the false positives I
can see. I’m not interested in all the new links, I think. I’m just
looking for new day posts. Perhaps a possible compromise is to
subscribe to gophermaps and list any addition to that gopher map in
the aggregated view? It would only work one or two levels deep, I
guess. Perhaps that is limited enough for it work.
– Alex Schroeder 2018-02-06 21:09 UTC