Helping Tux Machines Blossom Until Its 30th Anniversary
TWO weeks ago (exactly 14 days ago) we took note of our semi-birthday, which is now near. Today in IRC we discussed the roots of the site and why it was passed across the Atlantic 10 years ago.
We've since then evolved as a site, but the style has remained more or less the same. A week ago we distinguished (in the schema) "news" from "original/s", just like in the old and original site. Next, and perhaps very soon, we will split the presentation so as to separate original commentary from all the rest. It can take some time to implement and then properly test (we do it our own way using Perl).
In the long run, we'd like to envision a Tux Machines that isn't just a Web site. At the moment the site sends out updates as MQTT bursts and it uses protocols other than HTTP/S. For instance, we served over 13,000 Gemini requests this past weekend (not much compared to ~600,000 over the Web, but we needn't rely only on a languishing protocol that pushes JavaScript or "apps" instead of real Web pages). More improvements will come over time, but we cannot say or promise which and when. █
