🍻 calvusrex
👋 Been online since BBSs. Watched the internet get loud, tracked, and monetized. Retreated to Gemini. Now I build quiet things for quiet people. Increasingly selective about where my attention goes.
🌍 Topeka, Kansas
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I have a new home on the web at https://realityinexile.com. Writing about tech, the small web, self-hosting, music, history, and whatever else has my attention. There is also a small forum for people who want to stay and talk. No ads, no tracking, no algorithms. Just writing and conversation at a relaxing pace.
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I've written a few novellas, this one is going to be a full-blown novel. If you are interested... gemini://offgridholdout.org/the-madness-of-trees-and-stars.gmi
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Looking for some beta testers who use Linux for a multi-protocol browser I've been working on. https://waystone.njb1966.com Feedback is appreciated if decide to try it out.
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Funny... on Gemcities. 😝 gemini://rjgumby.gemcities.com
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I have long neglected my personal MP3 collection that I have been building for over 25 years now. I have MP3's of albums I no longer have, some out of print. Over 13,000 songs. Changing that. Tonight I installed the classic MP3 player WinAmp via Wine on my Debian desktop. Yeah, I get nostalgic now and then!!
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Installing Windows 98 in DOSBox-X. Not really sure why... slow as hell... I guess just because I can... 🤷
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Thoughts on humankind terraforming another planet? I'm slightly torn. One one hand Earth will not be habitable in like 800M to 1B years so like all Earth species, we will try and survive. If there is no way to actually travel to a closest star by then maybe we will ahve the technology to terraform a planet we can get to. On the other hand, in doing that we are essentially no different than a virus to the universe. Infecting worlds that are not ours and not really caring about the consequences as long as we continue on. I don't know. It really is a Catch-22 situation.
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Trying out TUI Gemini browsers. Not a fan at all of Bombadillo. Now Amfora on the other hand is pretty slick.
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I've put together a newcomer guide for Gemini at gemini://smnetdocs.gemcities.com/ It's still early, and I'm looking for a few people who are new (or relatively new) to Gemini to try following it and tell me where they got stuck or confused. No formal process, just use it and send me a note at smdocs@pm.me if something didn't make sense. Thanks.
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Off of here a few days. Had to reload my Debian workstation and relaized I didn't have my cert and keys. Luckily, I had them on my laptop! Setup a new method of managing projects on my desktop through a combination of Docker and Distrobox. It's a learning curve, but interesting and nice that it keeps the workstation more or less pristine from all the projects requirements/dependencies.
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I should not have let Codex into my my DOS repo. It was (mostly) working, and now I am feel like I am starting from scratch!! Grrr!!
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New day. Codex as it turns out is not the saviour of leaving Claude Code. Ambiguous, slightly dumber than CC, and hit my weekly max in less than a day. Not cool. So, I am back to CC and the whole mess of issues with usage that come with only paying as a Pro user. If they sort this out a bit more, I might consider Max. CC is the flagship out there right now IMHO.
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My brain is swimming in code... Making good progress though! Enough for tonight I think!!!
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Today (in between working my actual day job) I have been troubleshooting this new DOS system. So far I think I have put 6 hours into trial and error, research, and then having Claude give me opinions. Still no luck. I about ready to move it to Claude Code totally and see if AI can figure it out! Getting into a realm I don't have skills at !!!
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Me and my projects... Sheesh! You'd think I had no life (well I am almnost 60, so maybe I dont!)... Starting thinking about when Windows came on the scene and how I fought against it... I was a DOS guy, Windows was blasphemy! So I started toying with a DOS distribution designed for the people who never wanted to leave. It is optimized for virtual machines, goal is to boot in seconds to a clean, fully configured workspace, networking active, memory optimized, file manager running. We'll see what happens!
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I feel this conundrum where I love that Geminispace is quiet, devoid of the spam , ad's and nonsense of the web, but still wish more people knew about it and embraced the ethos of it so that , like the early days of connection online with others, you could share with each other. I know there are ways to do that, and I'm still discovering the ins and outs of Geminispace, but shaking what we've been indoctrinated into with the web is hard to shake. I'm trying!
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My thoughts on the small web.... gemini://gemini.njb1966.com/blog/2026-03-28-blog.gmi
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So I am working on a stripped down BBS system based off of the WWIV code. The plan is to make it small web specific, removing a bunch of layers to it but trying to integrate the Gemini ethos and the BBS ethos. Anyone interested in that or is that a dumb idea? :-P
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Something I've been thinking about: the web used to feel like it belonged to people. Geocities was messy, chaotic, and wonderful. Somewhere along the way, we traded that for platforms that own our content, track everything, and serve ads. Gemini brought some of that feeling back for me, so I built Gemcities. Sign up, pick a username, and your capsule goes live at gemini://yourusername.gemcities.com. Write gemtext in the browser with live preview, hit save, and it’s instantly published. No ads, no analytics, no tracking, no paywalls. If self-hosting felt like too much, this is for you. https://gemcities.com — CalvusRex (gemini://gemini.njb1966.com)
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One of my favorite things about Geminispace is how much good writing is tucked away in capsules. One of my frustrations is how hard it can be to stumble across it. So I built a search engine for it: Gemini Search. It crawls capsules natively over the Gemini protocol, indexes titles in SQLite with full-text search, and the results page renders as gemtext right in the browser — no translation to some clunky web UI. Lightweight by design. No heavy infrastructure, just a tool that fits the spirit of the space it indexes. https://gemsearch.njb1966.com — CalvusRex (gemini://gemini.njb1966.com)