Much of the negative commentary I've read about Gemini recently seems to focus on how much convenient functionality it lacks relative to the Web--functionality such as forms, in-line links, and stateful connections. The set of people who have this "too featureless" mindset seems to correlate heavily with the set of people who have been told that Gemini is a "better Web". In my opinion, while Gemini sits comfortably between Gopher and the Web, it's much more correct to think of Gemini as an expansion of Gopher than a contraction of the Web. It might be more helpful to show newcomers the nature of Gopher and its limits, and then explain what Gemini does to improve on its concepts. Those who see Gopher as pointless will probably think similarly of Gemini, in which case it's important not to oversell the protocol.
My wife and I have returned from two trips out of the area. The first was a vacation, and the second was a business trip, on which I traveled alone. My wife got sick immediately after returning from the vacation, but the head cold was kind enough to let me fly out to the office and back before filling my brain with fog. I now get to enjoy my first few days back with a box of tissues and a bag of cough drops.
After a long hiatus, I've begun browsing Gopher again in the last few days. My first presence on the small Web was through Gopher, and I must admit that I miss it--after all, it was by immersing myself in Gopher that I came to appreciate Gemini as much as I do. I'm thinking of rewriting the data in my capsule so that I can deploy it as both a capsule and a gopherhole. Services that require authentication, such as the chess service, would remain Gemini-only, but static content could live in Gopher just fine.
Part of my foray into the intersection of Gopher and Gemini includes Cosmic Voyage. I requested an account earlier today, and even logging into the shell on the pubnix was an almost magical experience. If you are not a member, I won't spoil the fun, but I will say that it's inspired me to create a world of my own. I hope to start posting there soon.
Photo of the week (week 38):
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EPCOT is my favorite park at Walt Disney World. The COVID-19 pandemic has prevented us from visiting the park since 2019, but since that time, Disney has added quite a lot of new shows and attractions. One of the more subtle, but surprisingly dazzling, additions is twinkling points of light on the outside of Spaceship Earth.
Photo of the week (week 39):
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While traveling home from my business trip, I passed through Washington Dulles International Airport. I had never been to the airport before, and I fell in love with the number of international aircraft I saw in the terminal. One of the most prominent was an All Nippon Airways Boeing 787-9, as seen in this extracted video frame.
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