William Casarin @[email protected]

not sure why my gopher http proxy isn't working on mobile so here's the txt: https://jb55.com/s/protoverse-part-1.txt

Did a quick phlog post on the metaverse protocol I'm working on

https://jb55.com/0/phlog/protoverse-part-1.txt

gopher://jb55.com/0/phlog/protoverse-part-1.txt

Gemini browser for Android 👀 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.snoe.deedum

Not to mention that the noise-protocol would be a strictly better choice here (less roundtrips), but unfortunately TLS is baked into the core protocol so you're stuck with it. I doubt Mercury will catch on but it would be my ideal "markdown gopher" protocol.

gemini wastes time by adding a non-trivial amount of TLS latency to each request, most of the time this is completely unnecessary.

looks like a lot of replies to this post on the geminiverse were against this proposal. I guess I'll be sticking with gopher for now.

Not sure I'm a fan of mandatory TLS in gemini, what about mercury? gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/solderpunk/cornedbeef/the-mercury-protocol.gmi

A guide to winning with the bongcloud chess opening https://i.4pcdn.org/tg/1401479151063.pdf

I transcribed the section where we talked about Gopher and put it in my gopher hole: https://jb55.com/0/phlog/cyberdeck-podcast.txt

replace https:// with gopher:// to view it there :)

cool thing about this setup: if you replace the http:// prefix with gopher:// it will just work in your gopher client

Now that I have a gopher http proxy on my site I have the best of both worlds: an awesome protocol to publish on AND readers (maybe)

Are Macaroons always an over-engineering disaster?

https://jb55.com/1/phlog/macaroons

I did a podcast and talked about:

building your own desktop, how I approach building software, software freedom and indepedence, software bloat, why I built a game engine from scratch, noise protocol, the fediverse, why I use gopher, the metaverse, nix-bitcoin

https://anchor.fm/futurepaul/episodes/Better-software-with-William-Casarin-eeujth/a-a2cduv3

testing to see if tooting from my irc client still works

Welcome new bitcoin peoples! At least we have this is things go to shit. I've been on "free speech" instances like maly.io, but left because the admin didn't like my relatively mild speech and told me to stop. At least Bitcoin people really care instead of pretending. And remember, you can always run your own activitypub node 😆

going to try and keep a more active journal during these crazy times...

day 1: covid update gopher://jb55.com/0/phlog/covid-update.txt