Gemini Articles of Interest

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 22, 2023

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

• Technology and Free Software

  • AsiaStar Redux

    It's a small mod that adds two more trains to the game. One is designed in 2005 and the other in 2015.

  • Interesting Hacker News Items

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Random Articles on Gemipedia

      I love getting feedback on the things I make. It absolutely makes my day. It's also a steady source of suggestions on how to improve things. Yesterday I got an email from Santiago asking to add a "Random Article" function to Gemipedia to use for discovery. This will redirect you to random articles on Wikipedia.

      So when I went to add a `GetRandomArticle()` method to our Wikipedia API client, I was surprised to find it already existed! Turns out, I had added this functionality last year without directly exposing it to the user and I had completely forgotten! I used it to stress test my Wikipedia HTML parser. Wikipedia is full of gross HTML (Table's used to t create 2 column layouts, etc.).

  • Software Releases/Announcements

    • Zond 0.4.0 release

      I've release Zond version 0.4.0. Zond is a static capsule builder which works much like Jekyll, Hugo or Zola but for Gemini. It's the software that builds and maintains this capsule. This release sees a number of small improvements plus support for translations using gettext and Tinylog support. Release binaries are available for Linux x86_64 and aarch64 and for FreeBSD on x86_64, and are available on Codeberg, it's Github mirror and over gemini and spartan on this capsule.

^* Gemini links can be opened using Gemini software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.