Gemini Articles of Interest

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 14, 2023

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

• Technology and Free Software

  • Earned my Terraform certification but not for a good reason

    This is a bit of a rant, I just need to vent.

    I work as a Platform Engineer, and I use Terraform daily for deploying infrastructure in Azure/AWS and writing modules. The problem is my current place of employment; they have a very unique take on Terraform design that goes against many, scrap that, all documented best practices. This is a "design" decision they have actively chosen.

  • open source

    yesterday was the day when hashi decided that it didn't need the open source community which helped build it. hashi has decided to switch from mpl to busl. busl is not open source, it reverts to open source after 4 years. this is unfortunate, to start, it's a security risk.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Browsing Gemini with Lynx at portal.mozz.us

      A couple of years ago, I posted on the Lynx mailing list about adding Gemini support to the browser.[1] That's never happened. It's too bad, because Lynx supports a *lot* of protocols: gopher, http(s), telnet, ftp, nntp, wais, finger... the list goes on.[2]

      I like Lynx a lot and I want it to be my go-to browser in the terminal for Gopher, Gemini, and the web. So in the absence of built-in Gemini support, I browse Gemini sites through Michael Lazar's great SmolNet Portal at portal.mozz.us.

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