🦎 u/bluesman
Author of Alhena gemini client.
👤 Self description: Evidence-Based Lefty (in s/US-politics)
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T-Minus And Counting — It is with great fanfare and the deepest sincerity that I'm pleased to announce a new Gemini service of profound utility. "T-Minus And Counting (The Gemini Temporal Explorer)" fills, if not a gaping hole, then an extremely tiny impression in the competitive Gemini countdown clock ecosystem. But those are just words. Create your own temporal tracker and judge for yourself. One timer per cert. If you need two...
💬 1 comment · 3 likes · Jul 03 · 5 days ago
AuraGem YouTube Proxy — @clseibold I was pleasantly surprised to find myself watching YouTube videos in Alhena through your AuraGem proxy. I tried many months ago and it didn't work (although it could have been a bug in Alhena at the time). Anyway, I'm impressed! I gotta ask how it's done and if you have any bandwidth concerns piping these large files around. I assume the video isn't transcoded. If not, could you add that? (Just kidding).
💬 2 comments · 1 like · Jul 03 · 5 days ago
Take Alhena To Nightfall City — It's been a minute since I posted about Alhena. It now supports the nex protocol if you're keen to wander the streets of Nightfall City. I can't remember offhand all the additions and fixes since my last shameless plug. I think the inline player supports a few new media types including flac and wav. If you've tried Alhena and there's something you'd like to see, let me know.
💬 View post · 3 likes · May 28 · 6 weeks ago
CGI in Bash — Bash scripts don't get enough love around these parts so I made a surprisingly useful CGI program in Bash. Link below. Feel free to bash the refresh button (pun intended).
💬 13 comments · 4 likes · May 22 · 7 weeks ago
Zoe In Color & New Alhena — I got antsy and updated Zoe 3D Tic Tac Toe with color. See what I did there? I also made the first two levels open with a random move when playing O. This should make those levels slightly easier to beat. I want to do the same with X once I'm sure I'm not breaking anything. By the way, ANSI color is optional. I also fixed a few bugs in Alhena and made a release.
💬 View post · 3 likes · Apr 28 · 2 months ago
Zoe - A New Gemini Game — Happy Friday. I wrote a game. It may be the first 3D game on Gemini. I'm not trying to be hyperbolic. I just want you to click the link. You'll need a client certificate and your wits to emerge victorious. Do you have what it takes? There's a gemlog on the same site with the epic backstory behind the game. Bug reports and enhancement requests welcome.
💬 13 comments · 4 likes · Apr 25 · 2 months ago
Alhena Now With Audio And Video — With a little help from VLC and the vlcj project, Alhena can play embedded audio and video. This means you need VLC 3.x on your system. For me, it worked "out of the box" on Windows, MacOS (when compiling Alhena from source) and Pi 5. The VLC snap install on Ubuntu and the Alhena MacOS installs required a config file to tell vlcj where to find VLC. Info on how to do that is in the README.md on Alhena's...
💬 1 comment · 2 likes · Apr 15 · 3 months ago
Embedded VLC — I haven't pushed the code yet but I was able to use the "vlcj" library to embed an inline audio player into Alhena. It only works if you have VLC installed but I've tested it on Windows, Mac and Pi. I coded the controls in Swing so they match the current theme, etc. It looks great. Nice and simple. I've tried ogg, opus, mp3 and m4a and all play just fine. I also did a quick test and yes, it's possible to embed an inline video player. I'm wondering though if this is something...
💬 4 comments · 2 likes · Apr 14 · 3 months ago
Maybe it's the wine talking but Apple and Google should offer an option to delete designtated apps off your phone when an emergency "unlock" code is entered. Better yet, when using your ring finger or pinky on the fingerprint reader. You never know these days when that might save you a trip overseas.
💬 9 comments · 1 like · Apr 08 · 3 months ago
Alhena Update — Lots of updates since my last post. Alhena now supports spartan and titan edit. Both of those things needed a new text editor/file chooser. Titan edit makes posting here and updating content on my own server a breeze. It has me wondering if I should add an "Edit In Titan" menu option. I'd find it useful but I'm not sure if it makes sense as a general feature. How many capsules support titan edit? There have been a...
💬 3 comments · 4 likes · Mar 30 · 3 months ago
Does anyone know what happened to Osiris? I uploaded my bitcoin wallet there. EDIT TO ADD: I'm kidding about the wallet. I found Osiris useful for other things though.
💬 10 comments · Mar 26 · 3 months ago
Status 60 — I strangely realized for the first time today I don't have to wait for a Status 60 to offer a client cert if I have an active client cert for that domain. No wonder I have to sign in to bbs all the time! I can be dense sometimes. Now I have to make another version. I'm kind of like Al Pacino in Godfather 3. "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in". ("They" being my OCD.)
💬 View post · 1 like · Mar 15 · 4 months ago
Titan Support And Adaptive Scrolling — Alhena 3.7 supports titan uploads. It also has optional smooth scrolling. (Optional because devices like the Apple trackpad pretty much implement this natively). Alhena is written in Java but you should try it anyway. The prebuilt installs come with their own jlinked jvm so you're instantly good to go. This ain't your granddad's HotJava (if you know, you know).
💬 View post · 4 likes · Mar 07 · 4 months ago
Titan Upload — Uploading a png to confirm it works. Any recommendations for other titan enabled sites I can try?
💬 2 comments · 1 like · Mar 05 · 4 months ago
🧑🏻🦲I appreciate the ability to delete my posts.🧑🏻🦲
💬 2 comments · Mar 04 · 4 months ago
Modern JVM, Old Computers — I took a break from working on Alhena to mess with some old hardware lying around the house. I have an HP Pavilion laptop from 2005 or so that I had installed Peppermint Linux on some time back. To my surprise, I was able to find a Java 21 32-bit JRE (from Bellsoft) and even more surprising, Alhena works just fine - maybe even better than on an old Windows ultrabook from 2011. I'm not sure the point but it was good fun. This thing is ridiculous; it even has a built-...
💬 2 comments · 1 like · Feb 19 · 5 months ago
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