Gemini Articles of Interest

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 08, 2023

A Gemini client^* is needed for the following links.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Imitation

    Imitation is a common way to learn. An urge could be good, or bad. The experience could be educational, or might land you a job. Or it could go down the barren rabbit hole, again. One way to defuse fad following is to toss the task onto a TODO list and let the subconscious chew on it. If it's still interesting after a while, or has been reinforced by something else, then give it a spin. You may also need to free up a block of time for dedicated study: no internet, no distractions. Or it could end up being deleted off the TODO list after a while.

  • Emacs: Bookmarks in Registers

    This sounds like just what you need. However, the problem with these is that if the buffer in-question changes, then running register-to-point will not take you where you want to go. E.g., if you run point-to-register inside an *info* buffer, and then move the buffer to some other info page, then this will not take you back to the original info page.

    Of course, you can just use a regular bookmark instead, but then you must name the bookmark, and then the bookmark clutters up your list of bookmarks. What I want is to be able to store an anonymous bookmark in a register, which is handy if you only need a bookmark for a little while.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Thoughts on Bubble

      So I’ve been away from geminispace for a while, only really using it to check the weather on my phone. I was busy with Game Boy Showdown (I placed roughly middle of the pack, but I’m just glad I finished a thing), and there’s always work (ugh), and the last couple of weeks I somehow talked myself into doing savage raiding in FFXIV (not sure if this was a mistake).

      But I have seen some chatter about Bubble, which looks like a neat project. The only complaint I have about it is that geminispace.org is way too similar a URL to geminispace.info.

      I get the concerns about centralization, but it would be really cool if multiple people ran their own Bubble instances for different interests. The Reddit-esque format is good for writing prompts, for example.

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