Introducing the ME Museum. Play around with Windows ME from The Internet Gopher Protocol (you can also use my gopher proxy).

I wanted to find the absolute floor.

Use KeePassXC as your Key Ring Manager in non-GNOME/KDE big DE setups. For example, I use it with Window Maker (see my post).

I wanted to show the user the latest irc message via gopher so…

You ran apt upgrade, but /boot was full. Now apt is broken and stuck in an error loop, complaining about a package it can’t configure.

It’s hard to convince people to use the Gopher protocol. So, why not host your own HTTP interface so people can browse your gopherhole via a website?

I had some requirements:

Some sloppy notes for you about how to enable audio/video calling for a prosody server in debian.

Mumble is an old-school, low-latency voice chat app, perfect for games like Counter-Strike 1.6. It’s a bit tricky to set up but offers strong encryption and full control. My server provides a lightweight, private alternative for high-performance voice chat.

I kept saying deploy_hook and post_hook, but no it’s renew_hook, and if there’s unrecognized entry it’ll just remove it! I have no idea how I made this mistake…

How to run a Counter-Strike 1.6 server in Linux (namely Debian). I even go into some bonus materials, like making bonus assets (maps, sounds, etc.) download quickly, making statistics accessible as JSON via HTTPS.

I host different Gopher Protocol services which use different ports on one box. So I kind of need a reverse proxy of sorts. I wanted to make sure I could access all of them using port 70.

Why do I use a VPN? I personally use it because I think exposing a VPN service with which to connect to all my services like SSH is a lot safer than just exposing SSH to the wild, wild Internet.

This is both a server announcement and a guide!

I’m out of disk space and need to figure out how to free up space.

If you use more than one GitHub account you may want a nice set up to make it easy to assign a specific user to a specific repo with ease. Here are some instructions for that, plus signing commits with GPG key.

I was trying to get all of my XMR (Monero) sold, but this took some work on my Debian server, as I hand’t touched it in a while.

Actually own your BTC by running bitcoind on your (Debian, Linux) server.

Entered BIOS and looked for acoustic/power/performance settings which led me to some way to reduce fan intensity in BIOS.

Archiving to tape with restic: how I processed 414980 files, roughtly 60 GiB in about 10 minutes, with incremental updates too.

Simple setup for encrypted backups using LTO6 on Debian. I have an older, very similar article:

I used to use DuckDNS, but then I started using afraid.org.

For Bitreich’s “Haunted Hosts” Hallowe’en event I made this, try a trick:

Let’s make a backup of the entire server.

Creating torrents for data longevity, a distributed way to archive data.

I love GNU screen. It allows me to keep various sessions open regardless if my SSH connection terminates or not. It’s also very nice for my VT320 terminal, because I can easily switch between windows and divide up the screen. I’m told tmux is better and more useful (I think for old terminals, too?), so I’ll look into that, too, at some point.

I use the old school, lightweight Window Maker window manager on Debian Unstable.

XMPP allows you to host your own encrypted communication server, where you can talk to other people on their own servers. Think of email, but for instant messaging.

My journey setting up a little IRC server, with SSL support and services, on Debian 12.

Archive using LTO Tape

Archive using LTO Tape

Introducing the ME Museum. Play around with Windows ME from The Internet Gopher Protocol (you can also use my gopher proxy).

Use KeePassXC as your Key Ring Manager in non-GNOME/KDE big DE setups. For example, I use it with Window Maker (see my post).

I wanted to show the user the latest irc message via gopher so…

You ran apt upgrade, but /boot was full. Now apt is broken and stuck in an error loop, complaining about a package it can’t configure.

It’s hard to convince people to use the Gopher protocol. So, why not host your own HTTP interface so people can browse your gopherhole via a website?

I had some requirements:

Some sloppy notes for you about how to enable audio/video calling for a prosody server in debian.

I kept saying deploy_hook and post_hook, but no it’s renew_hook, and if there’s unrecognized entry it’ll just remove it! I have no idea how I made this mistake…

I host different Gopher Protocol services which use different ports on one box. So I kind of need a reverse proxy of sorts. I wanted to make sure I could access all of them using port 70.

Why do I use a VPN? I personally use it because I think exposing a VPN service with which to connect to all my services like SSH is a lot safer than just exposing SSH to the wild, wild Internet.

This is both a server announcement and a guide!

I’m out of disk space and need to figure out how to free up space.

I was trying to get all of my XMR (Monero) sold, but this took some work on my Debian server, as I hand’t touched it in a while.

Actually own your BTC by running bitcoind on your (Debian, Linux) server.

Entered BIOS and looked for acoustic/power/performance settings which led me to some way to reduce fan intensity in BIOS.

Archiving to tape with restic: how I processed 414980 files, roughtly 60 GiB in about 10 minutes, with incremental updates too.

Simple setup for encrypted backups using LTO6 on Debian. I have an older, very similar article:

I used to use DuckDNS, but then I started using afraid.org.

For Bitreich’s “Haunted Hosts” Hallowe’en event I made this, try a trick:

Let’s make a backup of the entire server.

Creating torrents for data longevity, a distributed way to archive data.

I love GNU screen. It allows me to keep various sessions open regardless if my SSH connection terminates or not. It’s also very nice for my VT320 terminal, because I can easily switch between windows and divide up the screen. I’m told tmux is better and more useful (I think for old terminals, too?), so I’ll look into that, too, at some point.

XMPP allows you to host your own encrypted communication server, where you can talk to other people on their own servers. Think of email, but for instant messaging.

My journey setting up a little IRC server, with SSL support and services, on Debian 12.

Archive using LTO Tape

Archive using LTO Tape

I wrote a tiny open source 4-ch.net viewer that runs over Gopher.

I’m the bastard who brought Chinese AI to the pre-web Internet.

I wanted to find the absolute floor.

I was interviewed again on Screwtape (an AnonrRadio program powered by SDF):

I started a service which aims to make starting a gopherhole easier.

An MMORPG where the game world is literally live gopherspace itself. Find treasure where people haven’t been before, so the more gopherspace pioneering you do, the better your stats can be. You can leave your words in gopherspace, but also kill people and steal their loot.

If you haven’t noticed, I am a member of Bitreich, which is one of the forerunners in not just preserving The Internet Gopher Protocol, but propelling it forward. The Gopher Protocol is a very simple barebones protocol from the early 90s which predated the web. Think of a different way of navigating information than a web browser, kinda.

It’s hard to convince people to use the Gopher protocol. So, why not host your own HTTP interface so people can browse your gopherhole via a website?

This is the 0th edition of Smallnet Zine (April Edition). The point of this is to just blab about the state of the smallnet, indieweb, and self-hosting. Originally I had this idea to start something called netring.cafe, which was a cool idea, but I really already have too much on my plate at-the-moment. So now I’m just going to use a tag on my phlog to act as a zine:

I am now officially a member of Bitreich! I’ll talk a bit about my membership and about Bitreich itself.

On March 19, 2025, I did a radio interview with screwtape, on his “Lispy Gopher Climate” segment on aNONradio (hosted by SDF), about Gopher, a little bit about smallnet, Gemini, Bitreich, programming philosophy, and The MADE (a museum I am making a documentary for). Screwtape has a segment on SDF’s aNONradio.

If you take a look at my GitHub you’ll notice two things:

I host different Gopher Protocol services which use different ports on one box. So I kind of need a reverse proxy of sorts. I wanted to make sure I could access all of them using port 70.

Making Lagrange display ASCII-art heavy gopherholes in a (hopefully) nicer way.

I have a VT320 with a unix-style LK401 (?) keyboard. I connected it via serial to my Debian server. Here’s how.

Liferea allows you to use a command as a feed source!

Dillo is a very lightweight browser. I personally enjoy it because I feel it suits Window Maker and it has Gemini and Gopher plugins.

You may have heard of static site generators. You may even have heard of the Gopher Protocol. But have you heard of a static gopherhole generator?

I made a Gopher client called waffle. Basically, a web browser, but for the Gopher Protocol. I started it about 4 years ago now (2020?).

gopherden is forum software for the Gopher Protocol. View the official gopherden server via the web or via the Gopher Protocol (as intended) (you may want to read my post about the Gopher Protocol).

The point of this article is to get you browsing gopherspace quickly and to share some of my favorite gopherholes…

You may have heard of static site generators. You may even have heard of the Gopher Protocol. But have you heard of a static gopherhole generator?

gopherden is forum software for the Gopher Protocol. View the official gopherden server via the web or via the Gopher Protocol (as intended) (you may want to read my post about the Gopher Protocol).

gopherdashboard.

gopherdashboard.

I made a Gopher client called waffle. Basically, a web browser, but for the Gopher Protocol. I started it about 4 years ago now (2020?).

I wrote a tiny open source 4-ch.net viewer that runs over Gopher.

I was interviewed again on Screwtape (an AnonrRadio program powered by SDF):

An MMORPG where the game world is literally live gopherspace itself. Find treasure where people haven’t been before, so the more gopherspace pioneering you do, the better your stats can be. You can leave your words in gopherspace, but also kill people and steal their loot.

I was working on Venusia because I keep writing Gopher servers. I realized I wanted to just create a library/dependency. So I wanted to actually put this on Hackage, which is Haskell’s package repository.

If you take a look at my GitHub you’ll notice two things:

This article helps you get started with LiquidHaskell, which I found confusing.

I wrote these notes because I wante to reduce the friction for myself and others to getting a Nix Flake working for their Haskell Project.

You may have heard of static site generators. You may even have heard of the Gopher Protocol. But have you heard of a static gopherhole generator?

I made a Gopher client called waffle. Basically, a web browser, but for the Gopher Protocol. I started it about 4 years ago now (2020?).

Intramaze is web software which can serve a website allowing users to collaboratively build a maze together, by creating rooms which then can be linked together by defining polygons that act as links to other rooms. Users can chat together if they’re in the same room.

haskellcard an SDL2 game engine based around the idea of exploring different scenes. Ended up being similar to HyperCard. Kind of a point-and-click type thing, but I wanted to have a lot of real-time support, since I think feel like point-and-clicks are kind of boring or not very fun.

gopherden is forum software for the Gopher Protocol. View the official gopherden server via the web or via the Gopher Protocol (as intended) (you may want to read my post about the Gopher Protocol).

You may have heard of static site generators. You may even have heard of the Gopher Protocol. But have you heard of a static gopherhole generator?

gopherden is forum software for the Gopher Protocol. View the official gopherden server via the web or via the Gopher Protocol (as intended) (you may want to read my post about the Gopher Protocol).

gopherdashboard.

gopherdashboard.

I made a Gopher client called waffle. Basically, a web browser, but for the Gopher Protocol. I started it about 4 years ago now (2020?).

Intramaze is web software which can serve a website allowing users to collaboratively build a maze together, by creating rooms which then can be linked together by defining polygons that act as links to other rooms. Users can chat together if they’re in the same room.

haskellcard an SDL2 game engine based around the idea of exploring different scenes. Ended up being similar to HyperCard. Kind of a point-and-click type thing, but I wanted to have a lot of real-time support, since I think feel like point-and-clicks are kind of boring or not very fun.

I wrote a tiny open source 4-ch.net viewer that runs over Gopher.

I’m the bastard who brought Chinese AI to the pre-web Internet.

I wanted to find the absolute floor.

I started a service which aims to make starting a gopherhole easier.

An MMORPG where the game world is literally live gopherspace itself. Find treasure where people haven’t been before, so the more gopherspace pioneering you do, the better your stats can be. You can leave your words in gopherspace, but also kill people and steal their loot.

For Bitreich’s “Haunted Hosts” Hallowe’en event I made this, try a trick:

Whisper Radio is a (hopefully) 24/7 Internet radio station “hosted by a bot.”

I made a Gopher client called waffle. Basically, a web browser, but for the Gopher Protocol. I started it about 4 years ago now (2020?).

Intramaze is web software which can serve a website allowing users to collaboratively build a maze together, by creating rooms which then can be linked together by defining polygons that act as links to other rooms. Users can chat together if they’re in the same room.

haskellcard an SDL2 game engine based around the idea of exploring different scenes. Ended up being similar to HyperCard. Kind of a point-and-click type thing, but I wanted to have a lot of real-time support, since I think feel like point-and-clicks are kind of boring or not very fun.

gopherden is forum software for the Gopher Protocol. View the official gopherden server via the web or via the Gopher Protocol (as intended) (you may want to read my post about the Gopher Protocol).

You may have heard of static site generators. You may even have heard of the Gopher Protocol. But have you heard of a static gopherhole generator?

gopherdashboard.

Use KeePassXC as your Key Ring Manager in non-GNOME/KDE big DE setups. For example, I use it with Window Maker (see my post).

You ran apt upgrade, but /boot was full. Now apt is broken and stuck in an error loop, complaining about a package it can’t configure.

It’s hard to convince people to use the Gopher protocol. So, why not host your own HTTP interface so people can browse your gopherhole via a website?

How to run a Counter-Strike 1.6 server in Linux (namely Debian). I even go into some bonus materials, like making bonus assets (maps, sounds, etc.) download quickly, making statistics accessible as JSON via HTTPS.

Why do I use a VPN? I personally use it because I think exposing a VPN service with which to connect to all my services like SSH is a lot safer than just exposing SSH to the wild, wild Internet.

This is both a server announcement and a guide!

I’m out of disk space and need to figure out how to free up space.

Archiving to tape with restic: how I processed 414980 files, roughtly 60 GiB in about 10 minutes, with incremental updates too.

I used to use DuckDNS, but then I started using afraid.org.

I use the old school, lightweight Window Maker window manager on Debian Unstable.

I made a Gopher client called waffle. Basically, a web browser, but for the Gopher Protocol. I started it about 4 years ago now (2020?).

I made a Gopher client called waffle. Basically, a web browser, but for the Gopher Protocol. I started it about 4 years ago now (2020?).

I wrote a tiny open source 4-ch.net viewer that runs over Gopher.

I’m the bastard who brought Chinese AI to the pre-web Internet.

Introducing the ME Museum. Play around with Windows ME from The Internet Gopher Protocol (you can also use my gopher proxy).

I started a service which aims to make starting a gopherhole easier.

An MMORPG where the game world is literally live gopherspace itself. Find treasure where people haven’t been before, so the more gopherspace pioneering you do, the better your stats can be. You can leave your words in gopherspace, but also kill people and steal their loot.

Counter-Strike 1.6 @ cs16.someodd.zip!

Modern, encrypted communication owned by everyone, not big tech giants.

Place for people to talk using a text-based chat system from 1988 (IRC). Some people may find IRC dated and counter-intuitive (partially for them, I have something in the works). Think of it like an old Discord, where people can create their own channels (and sort of be the boss of them).

Whisper Radio is a (hopefully) 24/7 Internet radio station “hosted by a bot.”

gopherden is forum software for the Gopher Protocol. View the official gopherden server via the web or via the Gopher Protocol (as intended) (you may want to read my post about the Gopher Protocol).

I wrote these notes because I wante to reduce the friction for myself and others to getting a Nix Flake working for their Haskell Project.

I made a Gopher client called waffle. Basically, a web browser, but for the Gopher Protocol. I started it about 4 years ago now (2020?).

haskellcard an SDL2 game engine based around the idea of exploring different scenes. Ended up being similar to HyperCard. Kind of a point-and-click type thing, but I wanted to have a lot of real-time support, since I think feel like point-and-clicks are kind of boring or not very fun.

gopherden is forum software for the Gopher Protocol. View the official gopherden server via the web or via the Gopher Protocol (as intended) (you may want to read my post about the Gopher Protocol).

gopherden is forum software for the Gopher Protocol. View the official gopherden server via the web or via the Gopher Protocol (as intended) (you may want to read my post about the Gopher Protocol).

I made a Gopher client called waffle. Basically, a web browser, but for the Gopher Protocol. I started it about 4 years ago now (2020?).

haskellcard an SDL2 game engine based around the idea of exploring different scenes. Ended up being similar to HyperCard. Kind of a point-and-click type thing, but I wanted to have a lot of real-time support, since I think feel like point-and-clicks are kind of boring or not very fun.

Whisper Radio is a (hopefully) 24/7 Internet radio station “hosted by a bot.”

I made a Gopher client called waffle. Basically, a web browser, but for the Gopher Protocol. I started it about 4 years ago now (2020?).

Intramaze is web software which can serve a website allowing users to collaboratively build a maze together, by creating rooms which then can be linked together by defining polygons that act as links to other rooms. Users can chat together if they’re in the same room.

haskellcard an SDL2 game engine based around the idea of exploring different scenes. Ended up being similar to HyperCard. Kind of a point-and-click type thing, but I wanted to have a lot of real-time support, since I think feel like point-and-clicks are kind of boring or not very fun.

gopherden is forum software for the Gopher Protocol. View the official gopherden server via the web or via the Gopher Protocol (as intended) (you may want to read my post about the Gopher Protocol).

You may have heard of static site generators. You may even have heard of the Gopher Protocol. But have you heard of a static gopherhole generator?

gopherdashboard.

I lost a few hours today to what looked like a cursed, haunted networking bug.

How to run a Counter-Strike 1.6 server in Linux (namely Debian). I even go into some bonus materials, like making bonus assets (maps, sounds, etc.) download quickly, making statistics accessible as JSON via HTTPS.

Good ol’ head shots

The skinny

Place for people to talk using a text-based chat system from 1988 (IRC). Some people may find IRC dated and counter-intuitive (partially for them, I have something in the works). Think of it like an old Discord, where people can create their own channels (and sort of be the boss of them).

Look ma, no human DJ!

Whisper Radio is a (hopefully) 24/7 Internet radio station “hosted by a bot.”

Introducing the ME Museum. Play around with Windows ME from The Internet Gopher Protocol (you can also use my gopher proxy).

I wanted to show the user the latest irc message via gopher so…

On March 19, 2025, I did a radio interview with screwtape, on his “Lispy Gopher Climate” segment on aNONradio (hosted by SDF), about Gopher, a little bit about smallnet, Gemini, Bitreich, programming philosophy, and The MADE (a museum I am making a documentary for). Screwtape has a segment on SDF’s aNONradio.

I have donated and am starting to volunteer at The Made, primarily remotely.

Creating torrents for data longevity, a distributed way to archive data.

Archive using LTO Tape

I lost a few hours today to what looked like a cursed, haunted networking bug.

How to run a Counter-Strike 1.6 server in Linux (namely Debian). I even go into some bonus materials, like making bonus assets (maps, sounds, etc.) download quickly, making statistics accessible as JSON via HTTPS.

The skinny

Place for people to talk using a text-based chat system from 1988 (IRC). Some people may find IRC dated and counter-intuitive (partially for them, I have something in the works). Think of it like an old Discord, where people can create their own channels (and sort of be the boss of them).

Look ma, no human DJ!

Whisper Radio is a (hopefully) 24/7 Internet radio station “hosted by a bot.”

I wanted to show the user the latest irc message via gopher so…

Chat, kinda everywhere and everyone

Modern, encrypted communication owned by everyone, not big tech giants.

The skinny

Place for people to talk using a text-based chat system from 1988 (IRC). Some people may find IRC dated and counter-intuitive (partially for them, I have something in the works). Think of it like an old Discord, where people can create their own channels (and sort of be the boss of them).

I had the pleasant experience of playing the first MMORPG with one of the people involved, who also happens to be a co-author of The Internet Gopher Protocol: Bob Alberti. I met him because I interviewed him for a documentary.

Counter-Strike 1.6 @ cs16.someodd.zip!

How to run a Counter-Strike 1.6 server in Linux (namely Debian). I even go into some bonus materials, like making bonus assets (maps, sounds, etc.) download quickly, making statistics accessible as JSON via HTTPS.

The first someodd Counter-Strike 1.6 online party, to celebrate the launch of my CS1.6 server.

Good ol’ head shots

I saw a job listing on Ask HN: Who is hiring (March 2025). Seemed to be one of those fancy new cryptic challenge-based interviews.

This is both a server announcement and a guide!

Look ma, no human DJ!

Whisper Radio is a (hopefully) 24/7 Internet radio station “hosted by a bot.”

It’s hard to convince people to use the Gopher protocol. So, why not host your own HTTP interface so people can browse your gopherhole via a website?

How to run a Counter-Strike 1.6 server in Linux (namely Debian). I even go into some bonus materials, like making bonus assets (maps, sounds, etc.) download quickly, making statistics accessible as JSON via HTTPS.

Entered BIOS and looked for acoustic/power/performance settings which led me to some way to reduce fan intensity in BIOS.

My server will be down on Monday, June 3, 2024 (USA). Basically all of my services will be affected (XMPP, IRC, Whisper Radio, CS1.6, more).

I was working on Venusia because I keep writing Gopher servers. I realized I wanted to just create a library/dependency. So I wanted to actually put this on Hackage, which is Haskell’s package repository.

I saw a job listing on Ask HN: Who is hiring (March 2025). Seemed to be one of those fancy new cryptic challenge-based interviews.

On March 19, 2025, I did a radio interview with screwtape, on his “Lispy Gopher Climate” segment on aNONradio (hosted by SDF), about Gopher, a little bit about smallnet, Gemini, Bitreich, programming philosophy, and The MADE (a museum I am making a documentary for). Screwtape has a segment on SDF’s aNONradio.

This article helps you get started with LiquidHaskell, which I found confusing.

Archiving to tape with restic: how I processed 414980 files, roughtly 60 GiB in about 10 minutes, with incremental updates too.

Simple setup for encrypted backups using LTO6 on Debian. I have an older, very similar article:

Archive using LTO Tape

An MMORPG where the game world is literally live gopherspace itself. Find treasure where people haven’t been before, so the more gopherspace pioneering you do, the better your stats can be. You can leave your words in gopherspace, but also kill people and steal their loot.

Intramaze is web software which can serve a website allowing users to collaboratively build a maze together, by creating rooms which then can be linked together by defining polygons that act as links to other rooms. Users can chat together if they’re in the same room.

Intramaze is web software which can serve a website allowing users to collaboratively build a maze together, by creating rooms which then can be linked together by defining polygons that act as links to other rooms. Users can chat together if they’re in the same room.

I wanted to show the user the latest irc message via gopher so…

Look ma, no human DJ!

Whisper Radio is a (hopefully) 24/7 Internet radio station “hosted by a bot.”

Counter-Strike 1.6 @ cs16.someodd.zip!

For Bitreich’s “Haunted Hosts” Hallowe’en event I made this, try a trick:

The first someodd Counter-Strike 1.6 online party, to celebrate the launch of my CS1.6 server.

Some sloppy notes for you about how to enable audio/video calling for a prosody server in debian.

Chat, kinda everywhere and everyone

Modern, encrypted communication owned by everyone, not big tech giants.

Use KeePassXC as your Key Ring Manager in non-GNOME/KDE big DE setups. For example, I use it with Window Maker (see my post).

I wanted to email phrack, but their contact info specifies the use of a public key/GPG. So I wanted to send them a GPG-encrypted/signed email message! Here’s a guide on encrypting/signing arbitrary text content with GPG.

If you use more than one GitHub account you may want a nice set up to make it easy to assign a specific user to a specific repo with ease. Here are some instructions for that, plus signing commits with GPG key.

I was interviewed again on Screwtape (an AnonrRadio program powered by SDF):

If you haven’t noticed, I am a member of Bitreich, which is one of the forerunners in not just preserving The Internet Gopher Protocol, but propelling it forward. The Gopher Protocol is a very simple barebones protocol from the early 90s which predated the web. Think of a different way of navigating information than a web browser, kinda.

On March 19, 2025, I did a radio interview with screwtape, on his “Lispy Gopher Climate” segment on aNONradio (hosted by SDF), about Gopher, a little bit about smallnet, Gemini, Bitreich, programming philosophy, and The MADE (a museum I am making a documentary for). Screwtape has a segment on SDF’s aNONradio.

I wrote a tiny open source 4-ch.net viewer that runs over Gopher.

If you haven’t noticed, I am a member of Bitreich, which is one of the forerunners in not just preserving The Internet Gopher Protocol, but propelling it forward. The Gopher Protocol is a very simple barebones protocol from the early 90s which predated the web. Think of a different way of navigating information than a web browser, kinda.

This is the 0th edition of Smallnet Zine (April Edition). The point of this is to just blab about the state of the smallnet, indieweb, and self-hosting. Originally I had this idea to start something called netring.cafe, which was a cool idea, but I really already have too much on my plate at-the-moment. So now I’m just going to use a tag on my phlog to act as a zine:

haskellcard an SDL2 game engine based around the idea of exploring different scenes. Ended up being similar to HyperCard. Kind of a point-and-click type thing, but I wanted to have a lot of real-time support, since I think feel like point-and-clicks are kind of boring or not very fun.

haskellcard an SDL2 game engine based around the idea of exploring different scenes. Ended up being similar to HyperCard. Kind of a point-and-click type thing, but I wanted to have a lot of real-time support, since I think feel like point-and-clicks are kind of boring or not very fun.

haskellcard an SDL2 game engine based around the idea of exploring different scenes. Ended up being similar to HyperCard. Kind of a point-and-click type thing, but I wanted to have a lot of real-time support, since I think feel like point-and-clicks are kind of boring or not very fun.

haskellcard an SDL2 game engine based around the idea of exploring different scenes. Ended up being similar to HyperCard. Kind of a point-and-click type thing, but I wanted to have a lot of real-time support, since I think feel like point-and-clicks are kind of boring or not very fun.

Intramaze is web software which can serve a website allowing users to collaboratively build a maze together, by creating rooms which then can be linked together by defining polygons that act as links to other rooms. Users can chat together if they’re in the same room.

Intramaze is web software which can serve a website allowing users to collaboratively build a maze together, by creating rooms which then can be linked together by defining polygons that act as links to other rooms. Users can chat together if they’re in the same room.

Look ma, no human DJ!

Whisper Radio is a (hopefully) 24/7 Internet radio station “hosted by a bot.”

Look ma, no human DJ!

Whisper Radio is a (hopefully) 24/7 Internet radio station “hosted by a bot.”

Chat, kinda everywhere and everyone

The skinny

The first someodd Counter-Strike 1.6 online party, to celebrate the launch of my CS1.6 server.

Good ol’ head shots

Use KeePassXC as your Key Ring Manager in non-GNOME/KDE big DE setups. For example, I use it with Window Maker (see my post).

I use the old school, lightweight Window Maker window manager on Debian Unstable.

Why do I use a VPN? I personally use it because I think exposing a VPN service with which to connect to all my services like SSH is a lot safer than just exposing SSH to the wild, wild Internet.

I used to use DuckDNS, but then I started using afraid.org.

Archiving to tape with restic: how I processed 414980 files, roughtly 60 GiB in about 10 minutes, with incremental updates too.

Simple setup for encrypted backups using LTO6 on Debian. I have an older, very similar article:

This is both a server announcement and a guide!

Entered BIOS and looked for acoustic/power/performance settings which led me to some way to reduce fan intensity in BIOS.

I was trying to get all of my XMR (Monero) sold, but this took some work on my Debian server, as I hand’t touched it in a while.

Actually own your BTC by running bitcoind on your (Debian, Linux) server.

I started a service which aims to make starting a gopherhole easier.

Counter-Strike 1.6 @ cs16.someodd.zip!

I started a service which aims to make starting a gopherhole easier.

Counter-Strike 1.6 @ cs16.someodd.zip!

I started a service which aims to make starting a gopherhole easier.

Counter-Strike 1.6 @ cs16.someodd.zip!

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Chat, kinda everywhere and everyone

I use the old school, lightweight Window Maker window manager on Debian Unstable.

Some important news about my services.

Some important news about my services.

Some important news about my services.

Some important news about my services.

For Bitreich’s “Haunted Hosts” Hallowe’en event I made this, try a trick:

I have a VT320 with a unix-style LK401 (?) keyboard. I connected it via serial to my Debian server. Here’s how.

I have donated and am starting to volunteer at The Made, primarily remotely.

If you use more than one GitHub account you may want a nice set up to make it easy to assign a specific user to a specific repo with ease. Here are some instructions for that, plus signing commits with GPG key.

If you use more than one GitHub account you may want a nice set up to make it easy to assign a specific user to a specific repo with ease. Here are some instructions for that, plus signing commits with GPG key.

How to run a Counter-Strike 1.6 server in Linux (namely Debian). I even go into some bonus materials, like making bonus assets (maps, sounds, etc.) download quickly, making statistics accessible as JSON via HTTPS.

Mumble is an old-school, low-latency voice chat app, perfect for games like Counter-Strike 1.6. It’s a bit tricky to set up but offers strong encryption and full control. My server provides a lightweight, private alternative for high-performance voice chat.

This is part of my series on branches of the San Francisco Public Library system, which I explore through their “explorer map” program.

This is part of my series on branches of the San Francisco Public Library system, which I explore through their “explorer map” program.

Some sloppy notes for you about how to enable audio/video calling for a prosody server in debian.

I had some requirements:

On March 19, 2025, I did a radio interview with screwtape, on his “Lispy Gopher Climate” segment on aNONradio (hosted by SDF), about Gopher, a little bit about smallnet, Gemini, Bitreich, programming philosophy, and The MADE (a museum I am making a documentary for). Screwtape has a segment on SDF’s aNONradio.

On March 19, 2025, I did a radio interview with screwtape, on his “Lispy Gopher Climate” segment on aNONradio (hosted by SDF), about Gopher, a little bit about smallnet, Gemini, Bitreich, programming philosophy, and The MADE (a museum I am making a documentary for). Screwtape has a segment on SDF’s aNONradio.

I saw a job listing on Ask HN: Who is hiring (March 2025). Seemed to be one of those fancy new cryptic challenge-based interviews.

I am now officially a member of Bitreich! I’ll talk a bit about my membership and about Bitreich itself.

This is the 0th edition of Smallnet Zine (April Edition). The point of this is to just blab about the state of the smallnet, indieweb, and self-hosting. Originally I had this idea to start something called netring.cafe, which was a cool idea, but I really already have too much on my plate at-the-moment. So now I’m just going to use a tag on my phlog to act as a zine:

This is the 0th edition of Smallnet Zine (April Edition). The point of this is to just blab about the state of the smallnet, indieweb, and self-hosting. Originally I had this idea to start something called netring.cafe, which was a cool idea, but I really already have too much on my plate at-the-moment. So now I’m just going to use a tag on my phlog to act as a zine:

It’s hard to convince people to use the Gopher protocol. So, why not host your own HTTP interface so people can browse your gopherhole via a website?

If you haven’t noticed, I am a member of Bitreich, which is one of the forerunners in not just preserving The Internet Gopher Protocol, but propelling it forward. The Gopher Protocol is a very simple barebones protocol from the early 90s which predated the web. Think of a different way of navigating information than a web browser, kinda.

I wanted to show the user the latest irc message via gopher so…

I lost a few hours today to what looked like a cursed, haunted networking bug.

I lost a few hours today to what looked like a cursed, haunted networking bug.