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 timers, use two certs. New timers overwrite old. Timers can be marked private so they do not appear on the landing page. You can get a shareable link to both public and private timers from the "View" page. The CN (certificate name) is only displayed to you. Public timers are displayed in random order.
For the tech curious: T-Minus was written in Java with the intention of deploying to a native executable via GraalVM. That worked but there seems to be a bug that prevents emojis from being saved correctly in a timer label (bummer). Unless I can work around it, the code is running as pure Java. We'll see how that goes. If my memory starved server goes down, I will only have myself to blame.
Jul 03 · 5 days ago · 👍 CarloMonte, clseibold, sbr
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🦎 bluesman [OP] · Jul 04 at 15:06:
On the extremely remote chance there are any completists out there, I got Graal native-image to work with T-Minus label emojis by reading the QUERY_STRING environment variable from "/proc/self/environ" instead of using System.getenv().
Not being a Linux guru, I never would have figured this out without ChatGPT. And no, I am not ashamed.
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