# gritty on Station
author: gritty


## 2024-04-30 01:04 UTC
Nice name @reillypascal - do you code in pascal, perhaps?
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## 2024-04-30 01:00 UTC
At skyjake's suggestion, I've implemented a "tournament" style ranking system for my gemini implementation of the dice game Farkle. At the end of each day, the top 3 finishers will get points towards their monthly total:
1st: 5 points
2nd: 3 points
3rd: 1 point

After the last game of the month the results will be archived in the log and the monthly standings will be reset.

If all goes well, we'll have our first archived month on Wednesday.

gemini://gemini.smallweb.space/farkle/
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## 2024-04-22 02:42 UTC
Argylle on Apple is a laughably bad movie. I watched it all just because I had to know. literally laughed at plot turns at the end.
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## 2024-04-19 15:38 UTC
I need to make a shirt that says "No, I don't want to sign up for your data-sucking rewards program. Stop asking me"

maybe something shorter.

but that's the gist.
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## 2024-04-13 23:55 UTC
next log is #6000 for station. who will it be
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## 2024-04-11 11:10 UTC
I implemented the dice game Farkle in Gemini. You can check it out here
gemini://gemini.smallweb.space/farkle/

Feedback welcomed
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## 2024-04-07 01:48 UTC
I started a hobby project in Python and then became interested in (free) Pascal, so now half of it is written in that. I'm surprised how much I enjoy it, to be honest. It's an old (but seemingly fast) language, but I think that's part of the draw. Might just rewrite the whole thing in Pascal for the heck of it.
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## 2024-01-21 13:13 UTC
Today's find: Doom and Game Preservation.
gemini://djpro.smol.pub/03102022-preservation
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## 2024-01-21 00:08 UTC
The DSN Antenna aggregator is back online after I realized my server upgrade broke it
gemini://gemini.smallweb.space/antenna/
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## 2023-12-18 01:30 UTC
Does anyone use Buran for Android to browse Gemini? trying to figure out how to load a client certificate. I've got the PEM from Lagrange and tried to convert to pkcs #12 but it doesn't seem to work.
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## 2023-12-10 23:26 UTC
BOFH (bastard operator from hell) archive on gemini:
gemini://tilde.team/~khuxkm/bofharchive/
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## 2023-12-08 21:22 UTC
Interesting that deedum and elaho on iOS don't have user cert support. deedum on Android does. seems Lagrange is the only client I know of on iOS with client cert support, unless I'm missing something.
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## 2023-12-05 19:29 UTC
not sure if @m15o is on here but I keep trying to comment on midnight.pub and get a forbidden error. this one kid was having a rough time and I wanted to reply but no dice.
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## 2023-11-03 00:29 UTC
Due to renewed interest here's a plug for DSN Antenna: Non-technical gemlog aggregator (math and science, etc. is fine just staying away from computer technology). you'll need a separate gemlog or a way to parse out and submit only the non-tech ones. come help me fill out this community.

gemini://gemini.smallweb.space/antenna/
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## 2023-10-22 00:37 UTC
Found this little gem from 2014 on a capsule today:
"Programming Sucks"
gemini://schinkel.bevuta.com/rants/programming-sucks.txt
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## 2023-10-14 19:51 UTC
just saw a commercial saying that their "new" gasoline is better for the planet.

it's gasoline.

green washing at its finest right there.
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## 2023-10-11 17:09 UTC
Has anyone ever played the card and dice game Fill or Bust?  I've been playing since the 90s and enjoy introducing it to new groups of people. I got some young kids at work hooked on it during their breaks.

https://fillorbust.com/
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## 2023-10-11 00:49 UTC
New Smolzine
gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/smolzine-issue-40.gmi
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## 2023-09-04 03:13 UTC
Created a dictionary search. let me know if you spot any issues... I just got it working tonight.
gemini://gemini.smallweb.space/dictionary/search
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## 2023-08-25 21:00 UTC
my AVS from retrousb came in!

https://www.retrousb.com/product_info.php?cPath=36&products_id=78
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## 2023-08-11 00:37 UTC
anyone have a good listing of Unicode icons I can use on Gemini that doesn't require sifting through 300 pages of characters?
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## 2023-08-09 16:54 UTC
I created a HOWTO on making a capsule.  I still have some sections to write, but the server section is done.  If you have suggestions or spot some errors let me know.

gemini://gemini.smallweb.space/HOWTO/managing-your-own-capsule.gmi
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## 2023-07-27 23:40 UTC
my only sense of people joining Gemini is the docking bay at the bottom of Station. it's nice to see.
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## 2023-07-26 00:22 UTC
If you popped over to #BBS lately you may have seen that I rebranded my Antenna clone to be Deep Space Network (DSN) Antenna, with the intent of hosting non-technical gemlogs / transmissions.  Feedback welcomed.

gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/gritty/3470
gemini://gemini.smallweb.space/antenna
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## 2023-07-20 15:18 UTC
With the official Antenna being down, I made a clone on my capsule.  Feel free to use and let me know if there's any issues:
gemini://gemini.smallweb.space/antenna
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## 2023-07-01 01:44 UTC
Finished season 1 of Silo on Apple. pretty happy with how it went. some deviations from the book series, but minor and didn't detract.

still recommend.
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## 2023-06-26 13:58 UTC
Where In The World? • Puzzle #330 • 2023-06-26
✅✅✅✅✅🎉
gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
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## 2023-06-18 18:04 UTC
great day today! sitting outside waiting on some food with some good oldies playing.
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## 2023-06-05 23:58 UTC
Aliens
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## 2023-05-26 00:09 UTC
got all the spellbinding words! score.
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## 2023-05-22 17:06 UTC
capsule is back up

learned the hard way the difference between user and system services in systemd. blindly following the instructions for gmcapule had me install as a user and when I logged out it stopped. Fixed by putting in /etc/systemd/system/ like I should have.
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## 2023-05-19 01:14 UTC
not that I get much traffic (or post that much) but my capsule is down. not sure when I'll actually have time to fix it but it's on my list.
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## 2023-05-14 17:24 UTC
interesting pangram on spellbinding today. didn't think it would take.
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## 2023-05-13 00:34 UTC
I seem to water digital plants better than real ones.
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## 2023-05-11 02:34 UTC
impressed with the first episode of Silo on Apple. good to see the books come to life with some good visuals.
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## 2023-05-11 00:26 UTC
@martin is there a way (or a plan) to be able to see a listing of your own comments?  maybe I just missed it?
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## 2023-04-29 02:38 UTC
I'm looking forward to watching Silo on Apple. I read the trilogy some years ago and loved it.
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## 2023-04-21 01:53 UTC
for those wondering what sequel is, like I was: Gemini://sequel.space/
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## 2023-04-20 12:17 UTC
I had an idea for a Gemini Contributor awards program. just popped into my head. not sure how it would work or the time investment but I think it would be a neat idea. be good to get @solderpunk take on it too
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## 2023-04-20 11:04 UTC
for the new folks, here are a few links to check out
gemini://tilde.cafe/~spellbinding/
gemini://astrobotany.mozz.us
gemini://discogem.gmi.bacardi55.io/
gemini://warmedal.se/~antenna/
gemini://skyjake.fi/~Cosmos/view.gmi
gemini://kennedy.gemi.dev/
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## 2023-04-08 19:46 UTC
I find it interesting how many astrobotany plants are alive without their owners. there's quite a few it seems.
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## 2023-03-29 00:58 UTC
just discovered that Unitarian Universalist religion exists

https://www.learnreligions.com/unitarian-universalist-beliefs-and-practices-701571
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## 2023-03-27 11:50 UTC
I'm considering switching servers on my capsule so I can create a script to post to my tinylog as easily as I do here.  I'm using a static server currently.
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## 2023-03-25 19:12 UTC
Anyone know of an epub to gpub converter? I found one but it's written in nim and I don't know what I'm doing with that lang.
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## 2023-03-25 18:30 UTC
any tinylogs out there that are worth subscribing to that aren't on station or bacardi55s list?

I subscribe to these and aggregate them on my capsule with #gtl for easy reading.
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## 2023-02-25 19:08 UTC
I think a lyric database for Gemini would be great. went searching on the web for my recent gemlog and was appalled by the amount of garbage hitting my screen for just *text*.  unfortunately I don't have the time or expertise to do something like this.
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## 2023-01-04 22:26 UTC
finally got Writefreely running on my VPS. I like the simplicity, that it federates, AND doubles as a gopher hole.
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## 2022-12-26 02:15 UTC
I'm trying to remember something I read about. it was like an alternative to the about me page and would always be located at my site.tld/<here> but I can't think of it. was it something along the lines of a .plan file? should've bookmarked it. I remember wanting to add to my site
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## 2022-12-13 20:28 UTC
Does anyone know how I can log agate accesses and errors to a file? I'm running as a systemd service and know it has something to do with setting the environment variable but that's about it.
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## 2022-12-13 03:18 UTC
had to stop playing spellbinding on here for a while because it was all I thought about all day. surprisingly addicting game for the geminiverse
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## 2022-10-15 22:20 UTC
I was only a professional programmer for a very short period bit I found it draining. I often hear about and read about burnout among programmers, so I'm wondering how those folks that love it avoid such mental overload?
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## 2022-06-20 00:14 UTC
I haven't checked on crypto in a while but boy is there a huge fire sale going on. I do believe this had to happen at some point. it won't die though, and as others said, governments will swoop in and save the day with their regulations. some will welcome it. I've read an article saying as such.
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## 2022-06-09 23:18 UTC
What Spartan server(s) are folks using, and are they secure and reliable?
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## 2022-02-26 12:57 UTC
are there mirrors of solderpunk's gemlog? im trying to figure out a few things with molly brown and he mentioned some configuations in his gemlog.
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