Link Round-Up: T-Files, Gemtext, Low Power Computing, Gem Site Ideas, Text Web

There haven’t been posts from me in awhile. I’m sorry. Sometimes life gets in the way. And I admit this new post is nothing special, just some replies and links. Bear with me. For me, writing things, even something as low-stakes as this pseudonymous gemlog, takes effort.

acdw gives a running commentary on some vintage advice from a BBS

> YOU NEED AN 80 COLUMN CARD.

I'm guessing this is like, a punch card? I honestly don't even know.

That’s a “graphics” card, it adds more video RAM to be able to show 80 columns of text on the Apple II instead of the default 40.

nytpu talks about proposals to extend text/gemini

If you want basic linking and sectioning, use gemtext. If you want rich formatting (emphasis, boldface, etc) use markdown or asciidoc or any of a million lightweight markup languages. If you want deep control over the presentation of the document, use html. If you want no formatting at all, use plaintext.

The post is so right. You love to see Gemini being embraced, but it’s important for Gemini to avoid being embraced, extended, and extinguished.

perplexing.space writes about useful computing with low-powered devices (a potato, really?)

the reason we need an Intel i9 to read the news is because people want it that way. There are plenty of available low-impact sources for media, but people don't use them because they don't want to. Above all else, people have chosen convenience, any additional friction imposed on them would leave alternative proposals dead on arrival

What low-impact sources of media? Please share links, I love that sort of thing!

lewiscowper writes about sites they might convert to Gemini

I'd love to be able to, in a graphical client, have a CGI script or something that will take an HTML/HTTP page and strip it down with something like readability to get the content out, and serve that over gemini

Do it!

A blog post collects links to low bandwidth text-heavy websites

I appreciate these sites because they load quickly, scroll smoothly, spare my battery, are more compact, and lack the usual nonsense that infects many websites.

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24 September 2020 by Sardonyx

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