/g/ sunshine gardens next

date: 2020-09-03

tags: walkaway technology

https://merveilles.town/@xj9/104802852020939880

gemini[1] has been one of the more influential new technologies for me this year. i spent the last few months rebuilding my blog, the walkaway handbok, and sunshine gardens' tilde system to fully embrace it. i love the simplicity and the relative ease with which clients and servers can be hacked together. i love that people are writing clients with shell scripts and making minimal concept programs in small amounts of code.

~toast and i have been slowly putting together a gemini server in go, which should hit a better performance target that jetforce does for us.

1: gemini

9grid, tomo, 9federation

the goal is to make all of the functions of the clubhouse accessible over 9p so its easier to hack on. inferno has tk, sh/rc, and limbo. there's an old r4rs scheme for dis that could be resurrected too.

conceptually similar to 9gridchan

check inferno http://tryinferno.rekka.io/

i want to make hacking on the clubhouse a more approachable thing. the problem is that sunshine gardens is a fairly complex distributed system. i think inferno has some potential for managing some of that complexity and letting members run code on a grid of computers that could be run at friend's homes or in other safe locations. gemini itself is a simplifying force when you try to build applications with it, so i think that it would be a good constraint.

i've found that gemtext fits really well with acme since its very readable text by itself. a little plumber magic and you have a really nice collaborative wiki-like environment. of course charon would have to be updated to support gemini in the first place, but it could be really cool.

between inferno and drawterm, folks could pick between a full client which can run jobs locally and do other fancy grid things and a thin client that just opens a portal to hyperspace

http://drawterm.9front.org/