Notices by Alex Schroeder 🐝 (kensanata@octodon.social), page 22

@gcupc Feel free to use my code as a starting point. :)
https://github.com/kensanata/nimi-mute#soweli-lukin

@brennen hahaha, I know the feeling! We left ours after a year, though. It was simply too much to eat per week. I hope it works out for you!

@tootbrute @sohkamyung Same here in Switzerland: hard to get citizenship, but at the same time need more people for harvest, for care, for pensions; and thus the call for more kids, traditional family values, tax breaks for parents. Me, being an immigrant: 😞

@jalcine indefinitely, traditionally. There was a Palestinian in the Paris who lived there for nearly three decades. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140115/tramp-lives-26-years-at-paris-airport

Yikes, I had to take it down! And I have no time to fix is, as I need to prepare some *very important sewers* for my RPG friends… some other day!

@sivy If you use @solderpunk's VF-1 and use mdcat instead of cat, it already works! :)

Also, load climbed to over 30! Ooops?

@solderpunk It amazes me that I can follow the links to your gopher site and it works!
https://alexschroeder.ch/soweli-lukin?url=gopher%3A%2F%2Fzaibatsu.circumlunar.space%3A70%2F0%2F%7Esolderpunk%2Fphlog%2Fprotocol-pondering-intensifies-ii.txt

OK, here's a simple web app in Perl 5. 😃
This is not a full gopher client. You could say it's "only gopher text files" plus some Markdown and link processing. Thus, as long as there are URLs in those text files, these links should work. If those links go to a Gopher menu, however, it doesn't work any more. Only text files!
https://alexschroeder.ch/soweli-lukin?url=gopher%3A%2F%2Falexschroeder.ch%3A70%2F02019-06-18_A_Simple_Text_Server

@tomasino Haha! Well, for my laptop I'd probably be writing either some Python command-line tool like VF-1 (using some other Macross-themed name, I guess), or an Emacs mode… But for my phone, I need something that I can access with a browser. :sadglasses:

http://www.macross2.net/m3/masterlist/masterlist-index.html

Why did it take me a lunch break to realize that writing a Gopher client as a client-side web app cannot work? All these apps run inside the browser sandbox: Javascript, WebAssembly, and any other language that compiles to them – same limitation. All you have are WebSockets, and they are not the same as TCP sockets. And thus, no connecting from browsers to regular gopher servers! 😭
So now that I know this will require server-side code, I might as well use Perl 5. 😜

@mdallastella I tried for a while to get things going but I realized that I don't understand how I'm supposed to write the web app using fennel, lua, and fengari. All I managed to do was print stuff to the console. 😔

@mdallastella I am interested in this! So write fennel code, fennel --compile to lua, and use fengari to run lua in the browser?
https://fengari.io/
It sounds like hell: very hot! 😃

I feel tempted to try WebPerl! Oh my, what have I done.
https://webperl.zero-g.net/using.html

@alexcleac I would prefer a client-side web app in order to avoid my server acting as a proxy for all requests.

I was shown a tutorial for implementing something in Rust and generating WebAssembly. https://rustwasm.github.io/book/game-of-life/implementing.html
Now I'm looking at this "list of languages that currently compile to or have their VMs in WebAssembly(wasm)"
https://github.com/appcypher/awesome-wasm-langs
Intriguing! And I feel sad for the many unpopular languages with descriptions like "… is a general-purpose programming language designed for robustness, optimality, and maintainability." Like all of them, initially, hopefully.

@julienxx This looks very interesting, thank you very much!