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smolZINE - Issue 8

2021-08-15

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Hidden (and not so hidden) Gems
• Spelunking
• Word Search
• Community Contributions & Discussion
• Thanks

Introduction

Some meta gemini talk, some really neat hidden gems. Oh and keep a look out! I heard a gopher got loose in this issue of smolZINE.

Hidden (and not so hidden) Gems

Of Many Trades

Andrew has all manner of interesting posts to read on topics such as retro computing and DIY media creation among others. There is an excellent internet radio station. Make sure you explore his gemlog and don't miss his comedy podcast "Expedition Sasquatch"!

Of Many Trades (ofmanytrades.com)

sdfgeoff.ddns.net

This is not much to look at upon first glance but is very cool all the same. The capsule is hosted on an ESP32 microcontroller! The only link on the capsule (so far) is a very interesting write up of how they accomplished this.

sdfgeoff.ddns.net (sdfgeoff.ddns.net)

Chatroom.yysu.xyz

Not the first gemini-based chatroom but the only currently running one that I'm aware of. Chat with fellow geminauts either anonymously or via your chosen username.

chatroom.yysu.xyz (chatroom.yysu.xyz)

seamustbn.xyz

Alex has a gemlog, a tinylog and sections for a few other topics that they find interesting. Original music creations are also featured on the capsule.

seamustbn.xyz (seamustbn.xyz)

Sector Disk

Are you a fan of tilde servers but looking for something less extravagant and resource intensive? No? Well I still think many will find this rather fascinating anyways. Like a tilde server, users can request their own sectors to do with as they please on a single 1.44MB 3.5in floppy disk.

Sector Disk (gopher://sectordisk.pw)

The Treeblue Review

Very nicely done page of curated gemini capsule discovery. Everything is well organized into different themes and categories.

The Treeblue Review (review.treeblue.space)

Sensor Station

"We are a small, Virginia-based studio practicing intentional, low-impact design in computing, farming, and existence." I love it when a capsule has a nice succint description of themselves right on their main page :).

Sensor Station (gemini.sensorstation.co)

Spelunking

Gemini Browsers

Decided to get a little bit meta in this issue and point out some newer clients. Ok they may not all be new in the general sense but at least new to me. My current favorite clients are Amfora when I'm in the terminal and Kristall when I'm in a graphical desktop. Here are some other interesting ones I've found more recently.

Astro

A work-in-progress but already very functional. One of the easiest clients to start using as it's written entirely in shell script. Just download or git clone and run it.

Astro on github (https://github.com)

Telescope

From the author of the gmid gemini server, Omar Polo. "The UI is strongly inspired from Emacs and W3M, so you’ll find some familiar concepts, such as the minibuffer or the tabline, and the default keybindigs also reflect this, but keys familiar for vi and CUA users are also present by default."

Telescope (telescope.omarpolo.com)

Gerbil

Gerbil is a browser aimed at mobile linux devices such as the Pinephone.

Gerbil on gitlab (https://gitlab.com)

Gem

Another for linux mobiles. This time more specifically for ubuntu touch.

Gem on the Open Store (https://open-store.io)

tinmop

Probably the most unusual client on this list. Tinmop is a gemini and fediverse browser for the terminal written in Common Lisp.

Tinmop (https://www.autistici.org)

LR-87

A client written in Fortran, yes Fortran!

LR-87 (http://git.rainbow-100.com)

gemnine

Gemini client for Plan 9.

gemnine (https://git.sr.ht)

astronaut

Terminal gemini client written in Go.

astronaut (https://git.sr.ht)

Moonlander

Multiplatform graphical client using GTK.

Moonlander (https://sr.ht)

Word Search

by Jone

Source Material: Sam the Potato, by Steven

gemini://yam655.com/j/2020-01/24_r2158/Sam_the_Potato.lyrics.txt (yam655.com)

 j e d a e j u u y u j x r f p c y c
 b s d m b r i n g i n g p f s w v e
 g p l x z s m s s d y a n w t p o s
 d i l v a i e c w m f w i e h d w s
 g t l n n c q h a a l f r i e n d e
 e c p o t a t o o g a u w r m t j n
 a u n v x t t o k i l l b d m b a c
 m z d g m j i l b c i x u l r u u e
 h a n d w r i t i n g y g a m l b e
 r u h g w a e w i t c h t t i l s g
 p s c a r e d a t x c g s p p y l n
 l h y v n o k j k k n i f e i p a j
 l c h b n t t v w e z o p n c r l t

bringing
bully
essence
friend
handwriting
ill
knife
magic
potato
scared
school
spit
weird
witch

Word Search Solution

Community Contributions & Discussion

Please consider taking part in making this zine better and more diverse by contributing your thoughts and finds. If you are interested in contributing a short article or capsule picks email me at: smolzine (at) cyberbot.space.

If you have any feedback or just want to discuss anything related to gemini or smolZINE hit me up at the above email or ping me on the fediverse at kelbot@retro.social and/or use the #smolZINE tag.

Thanks

Thank you to fellow geminauts Jone and Sam for their contributions to this issue of smolZINE.