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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?
2024-11-16 Sadder Than Fiction
2024-10-27 Hour of Ambiguity
2024-10-24 How I Learned to Enjoy Pickled Onion Monster Munch
2024-10-18 Nex in CapsulePress
2024-10-17 WordStress
2024-10-14 Firsts and Lasts
2024-10-08 Hurricane Milton
2024-10-04 Heaven Can Wait
2024-09-28 What if Emails were Multilingual?
2024-09-05 Idea: Meeting Spoofer
2024-08-29 Roll Your Own Antispam
2024-08-20 Easy Socialising
2024-07-29 Shared Email Addresses
2024-07-19 Good Food, Bad Authorisation
2024-07-16 Vmail via FreshRSS
2024-07-09 A Pressure Cooker for Tea
2024-07-02 Ranking Every Elevator in the Myst Series
2024-07-01 Information Trajectory
2024-06-20 Special Roads
2024-06-04 Somewhat-Effective Spam Filters
2024-06-01 Framing Device
2024-05-15 Don't Ask, Don't Teach
2024-05-09 A completely plaintext WordPress Theme
2024-05-03 Does a blog have to be HTML?
2024-05-01 Test your site in Lynx
2024-04-28 Window Tax
2024-04-27 5 Cool Apps for your Unraid NAS
2024-04-13 Council Disenfranchisement
2024-04-03 you are a printer we are all printers
2024-03-28 Quickly Solving JigsawExplorer Puzzles
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email: gopherhole@danq.me