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    Hi I’m Julien, I wrote some technical stuff on http://julienblanchard.com. Nowadays it seems I update my phlog more frequently gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/julienxx/Log (no feed yet).

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      Anything I could make better besides the code?

      Text escaping. Quotes on this page turn into… something eldritch.

      calvin commented: I wrote one, but haven’t deployed it anywhere.

      http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/julienxx/Lobste.rs/szbati.txt

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        It gets better with every requote.

        Somebody, somewhere, is reading utf-8 bytes and interpreting as latin1 characters, then outputting utf-8.

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          Just about the vintage experience I’d expect from Gopher :^]

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          Updated the code to replace some of the problematic chars, hopefully it should look better now.

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            Seems it related to how Floodgap parses the thing. With a real gopher client it looks okay :/

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              Hmm actually it looks weird too sometimes. I’ll have a look. Thanks for the heads up!

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              I wrote one, but haven’t deployed it anywhere.

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                Oh cool I’ll have a look at it to see what I can steal from your implementation :)

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                I didn’t know what was Gopher before and still not sure what it is (will read more on that). I find Lobster already a pretty good interface without much distraction since it’s mostly text, so I don’t know what I would really use it for. What would be the use of this over lobster?

                Nice work and it’s loads really fast.

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                  Gopher is an old protocol, I mean it predates the world wide web so it’s not about making an alternative UI to lobste.rs on http:// but on gopher:// for people who like to live in a plain-text world. See https://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/relevance.html for more informations on gopher.

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                    live in a plain-text world

                    Except that gopher doesn’t guarantee plain-text (in practise any file type can be served). IIRC the main advantage of Gopher is that it has a standard format for navigation.

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                      Interestingly enough, Gopher and the web are roughly the same age - Gopher was publicly released in 1991, the same year as Tim Berners-Lee’s original announcement to alt.hypertext.

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                    I use a Vortex Vibe, it’s programmable but I don’t do it, I’ve just remapped caps-lock to control.

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                      Did my first internship coding some PHP on an Indy. Loved this system.

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                        Using fastmail and very happy with it, protonmail looks like a nice alternative too.

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                          I keep a journal of my workday for the last 6 months and I wrote this article to explain how I do it https://lobste.rs/s/ksmgwe/journaling_my_life_at_work_using_github

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                            Just got a “funny” error today where a typo in a var name lead to a null value somewhere and terraform was complaining about an unrelated value in a template. Otherwise this is really a terrific tool.

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                              I’ve never had to to a whiteboard interview nor did I heard of someone having to do it here in France, maybe that’s more of an American technical interview practice.

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                                Thanks for this list! Quite a few items I didn’t knew.

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                                  The author must be young with no family or friends to not being able to consider the lack of time because real life for not having OSS contributions to display.

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                                    I get a 403 error.

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                                      Me too, probably couldn’t handle the traffic. The link is correct.

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                                        Maybe they should switch to using a Postgres as a backend. :)

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                                        According to the website:

                                        Thank you very much for your visit. Yesterday, my hosting server denied accessing from foreign countries for six hours because of too many accesses. This is the specification of my rental server to avoid crash by DoS; thus, I can do nothing. If there are a lot of access, it will deny accessing again on the weekend. Please visit after next week if you cannot find this site.

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                                        I use Arq Backup to backup on my S3 account https://www.arqbackup.com/.

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                                          We have Ikea SKARSTA desks at work http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/S29084966/ it’s really basic but works well.

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                                            Started reading “Exercices in Programming Style”, really good so far.

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                                              Rust by Example is pretty useful http://rustbyexample.com/.

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                                                The one thing to be aware of with Rust by Example is that it isn’t maintained like the Rust book and Rustonomicon are. It receives only minimal attention. This is not to say that it’s bad, just that The Rust Programming Language and the Rustonomicon are better options for up-to-date explanations of the language.

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                                                  It is maintained in the sense that there are people looking at PRs. We are always searching for people helping out with it.

                                                  Edit: Filed an issue: https://github.com/rust-community/team/issues/34

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                                                Paris, France

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                                                  I hope to have some time to start working on an update to “Write Yourself a Scheme” using modern Haskell.

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                                                    We have a slack room where we post what we intend to to today and we post another message when leaving with what we achieved and what issues we encountered that kind of stuff. We’re still testing the process, it kinda works but I’m not really sure of the added value so far.

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                                                      This is sorta where we are with regards to experimenting more and extending the solution above, using a shared chatroom and individuals contributing. In effect, that’s what iDoneThis and StandUpMail (referenced above) also achieve, but this way the timeshifting is obvious.

                                                      I’m trying to put together my thoughts on what’s working about that for us and what still isn’t. Like you, I wasn’t initially convinced of the benefits, I think it is a net positive. I’d like to explore why in a bit more detail.