👽 acidus

@dimkr has been publishing about Guppy, a new smolnet protocol based on UDP. It's interesting for sure:

gemini://gemini.dimakrasner.com/guppy-v0.2.gmi

I posted some feedback on the spec based on writing a toy Guppy client and server.

gemini://gemi.dev/gemlog/2023-08-07-guppy-udp.gmi
gemini://gemi.dev/gemlog/2023-08-08-more-guppy-feedback.gmi

TLDR: UDP makes things hard. Writing unambiguous protocols is also hard. Reading and commenting on the spec has been a fun experience though.

9 months ago · 👍 mozz, cobradile94, n3m3516, ew0k

Links

[1] gemini://gemini.dimakrasner.com/guppy-v0.2.gmi (gemini.dimakrasner.com)
[2] gemini://gemi.dev/gemlog/2023-08-07-guppy-udp.gmi (gemi.dev)
[3] gemini://gemi.dev/gemlog/2023-08-08-more-guppy-feedback.gmi (gemi.dev)

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👽 idx2

Thanks for posting! Gonna look into this. Also, is it just me, or does there seem to be some growing interest in UDP? Someone posted about their comms program also using UDP... Take a look! gemini://gmi.noulin.net/tinylog/log.gmi · 9 months ago

👽 ew0k

Added these to my reading queue 🙂 · 9 months ago

👽 dimkr

Feedback is welcome! Let's see if we can build something bad but fun together · 9 months ago