breadpunk.club / bakersdozen / gemlog / 5 # A Gemini Morning Sat on the back porch with a cup of coffee this morning surfing gemini and mastodon. This is what my morning was like! 1. Mixtapes! 2. Small Internet is Small 3. Spacewalking 4. twtxt ## Mixtapes! @acdw@writing.exchange posted this morning that the konpeito mixtapes are back up! => gemini://konpeito.media I found out about them in the first place earlier this summer when I was still pretty new to gemspace when I was browsing ~jfm's commonplace book, and they mentioned them. > The summer 2020 Konpeito mixtape is out! They're absolutely one of the best things in Geminispace, so go grab it! => gemini://carcosa.net/journal/commonplace-book.gmi jfm's commonplace book I used av98 to download the zip, and have been jamming out this morning. ## Small Internet is Small Last week my friend @m455@tiny.tilde.website and I were goofing around, posting to mastodon from lynx using brutaldon. => https://tiny.tilde.website/@dozens/104423221409593579 => https://brutaldon.online/about It's a totally 100% useful minimalist mastodon client that is bare bones enough to be quite simple and pleasant to use in lynx, my preferred terminal web/gopher client. So anyway, I was cruising around gemspace this morning like I said, and discovered that the aformention ~jfm is the author of brutaldon! The small internet really is a small place :D ## Spacewalking solderpunk linked to gemlog.blue in their gemlog. => gemini://gemlog.blue => https://gemlog.blue Looks nice, dead simple. You can browse users on gemini, and it has a spacewalk. One thing I've discovered that I really like about the gemini protocol and about gemini clients is that when you have a large index like a spacewalk or a capcom, it's really enjoyable to just start mashing numbers and see where you end up. It's a bit of a gamble, a bit of a roulette wheel of gemini space. I might quickly scan the index to see if I recognize any names or see any interesting titles. But otherwise, I like just sequentially typing in link numbers, sight unseen, and see where they go. Which I know is kind of the whole point of gopher: it's supposed to be directory based browsing. But even so it never really quite felt to the way that gemini does. ## twtxt Crusing around gemlog.blue, I stumbled on ~iolfree's gemlog, and noticed that they are hosting their twtxt.txt file there! => gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space:1965/~iolfree/twtxt.txt Twtxt, for the unfamiliar, is a plain-text, distributed microblogging platform. => https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ I, incidentally, sporadically twtxt myself at @ Feel free to say hello! Its a weird quirky little platform. I didn't expect to encounter it here in gemini space, but it makes sense! Sounds like we might need a new client with gemini (and gopher!) support. Assuming such a thing doesn't already exist. EOF