Comment by 🚀 jsreed5

@bluesman I confess to being one of the voices that pushed back on the Gemini scripting thought experiment, and I'm very sorry if anything I've said has ever come off as an attack or caused offense. I have my opinions on what best fits Gemini's ethos, as does almost everyone, but it's not my place to tell anyone what they can or can't do within the confines of the protocol spec. If I don't agree with it, the only thing I can do, and the only thing I'd be justified in trying to do, is not implement it myself.

It's strange to me that you would get pushback for developing a small Web client of your own, of all things. I haven't used Alhena myself, but any project in the Gemini sphere is a good project to me, because that's how a community grows and finds the paradigms that work best. Plus, freedom requires choice, and the more choices available to browse Gemini, the better, as far as I'm concerned. Keep at it and forget the naysayers.

Dec 03 · 12 days ago

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@stack, if you would genuinely like to participate in something like that please stop by hashnix. The radio station there is Gemini-enabled (I use my pxc client and pipe the cgi page to mplayer), and when people do shows we hang out in the hashnix dream chat and enjoy together. This morning our DJ pa2 did his Astral Peaks show with several people around.

@ingrix, thank you, I will do that! Currently traveling but will have free time in a couple of weeks.

At least one good thing came out of this.

@jsreed5 Thanks. The scripting "thought experiment" remains just that. I never intended to implement it and never expected the gemlog to get the attention it received (I posted that gemlog before I even knew how to submit content to Antenna).

I did make Scriptonite which runs sandboxed JS on my server using Gemini template pages. I think it's cool - especially how easy it is to prompt for user input (which has nothing to do with scripting). That project got a lot of pushback including claims that it violated the Gemini spec. Odd considering it works in every client that correctly supports URL encoding rules.

Anyway, to each his own. My comments about pushback were in response to another post speculating about my motivations and not an attempt to gain sympathy. My tech friends seem bewildered by the amount of work I've done here and sometimes I'm bewildered myself. Maybe I'm just a stubborn guy who also happens to be a glutton for punishment.

While I have you here - one of your CGI programs "My Age In Miles" inspired me to write a Scriptonite version a few weeks back. I give credit and a link back to your page.

I am not sure why anyone would object to that.

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On Grandstanding on BBS — [gemini link] Re: On Labels [gemini link] the discussion that caused all this Weighing in the risk of escalating the drama vs. having a safe, hate-free place for discussions, I cannot remain silent in light of recent abuse of BBS and myself. BBS is a place I've enjoyed since its birth, to exchange opinions with other Geminauts. It's value is very much in the ease of starting and continuing discussions with others. Sometimes we agree, other times we don't. Occasionally...