🧑‍💻🐝 John's Blog 🍯

This is both a personal log and a collection of resources for my hobbies.

I'm starting a gemlog. It's great that is's called gem.

What did I need for it?

=> gemini://sdfeu.org An account at sdfeu.org => https://git.sr.ht/~gsthnz/gssg GSSG – A static site generator for gmi files => https://codeberg.org/slatian/dragonstone Dragonstone – A Gemini browser for GNU/Linux

=> https://www.greenpeace.de/ Greenpeace Germany => https://www.ifaw.org/international/campaigns/song-of-the-whale ifaw – The International Fund for Animal Welfare – Song of the Whale => https://projectmanaia.at/ Project Manaia was founded by Manuel Marinelli in 2014 => https://sea-shepherd.de/ Sea Shepherd Germany

Recommendable YouTube channels

=> https://www.youtube.com/@OffSheGoesADV Off She Goes – A Norwegian biker (Enduro) => https://www.youtube.com/@ItchyBoots Itchy Boots – A Dutch biker ridden 160.000 kilometers solo around the world (Enduro) => https://www.youtube.com/@CaroUnterwegs Caro Unterwegs – A German biker (Enduro) => https://www.youtube.com/@FreddieDobbs Freddie Dobbs – An English biker (classic bikes)

So it looks like the most recommendable filming bikers a mostly female. At least I think their way of story telling is way more entertaining, Freddie Doobs being a remarkable exception.

English

Fiction

  • Herman Melville – Moby Dick
  • Julian Stockwin: Kydd (Seekriegsroman)
  • Arthur Ransome: Swallows and Amazons

Non-fiction

  • Roger Barnes: The Dinghy Cruising Companion 2nd edition

German

=> https://www.spektrum.de/news/die-wahre-geschichte-von-moby-dick/1760968 Spektrum.de – »Moby Dick«: Die letzte Fahrt der Essex => https://www.zeit.de/reisen/2013-05/segeln-schottland-hebriden Zeit.de – “Windstärke neun auf der “An Sùlaire”. Sgoth Niseach heißen die Segelboote, die einst auf den schottischen Inseln gebaut wurden. Reiner Luyken ist mit dem letzten der Art zu den Äußeren Hebriden gesegelt. (Gute Links in den Kommentaren.)

German translations

  • Volter Kilpi: Im Saal von Alastalo
  • Arthur Conan Doyle: »Heute dreimal ins Polarmeer gefallen«

Windjammer

  • div. Jugendbücher von Peter Gording, klassisches Seemannsgarn

Dansk

=> https://www.saxo.com saxo.com: Find any dansk books/ebooks => https://www.saxo.com/dk/products/search?query=Troels+Kl%C3%B8vedal f.e. books from Troels Kløvedal.

2023-06-18

=> https://os108.org/ OS108 – Desktop OS with GUI, based on NetBSD => https://wiki.netbsd.org/laptops/ NetBSD Wiki – Laptops that work well with NetBSD

Install a DE/GUI

=> https://github.com/OS108/OS108/blob/master/mate_9.sh

Packages to install

  • [ ] vim
  • [ ] devel/git
  • [ ] lang/go
  • [ ] sysutils/htop
  • [ ] x11/slim
  • [ ] net/wget
  • [ ] net/nextcloud-client
  • [ ] www/firefox-esr
  • [ ] wip/plank (with Mate, see above)
  • [ ] net/mosh (does it work on server side of SDF?)

Missing packages in pkgsrc

  • [ ] QOwnNotes
  • [ ] Dragonstone (Gemini browser)
  • [ ] all packages for the Pantheon desktop environment

Problems

tmux fails to install due to problems finding curses.h as of 2023-06-15.

How to install software on SDF (eu)

Due to the unpriviliged location within the homedir one needs to compile from source (pkgsrc). The SDF machines are able to do that very quickly, but installing pkgsrc needs lots of files, space and CPU ressources. So a different approach could be to mount the SDF homedir to a local NetBSD (virtual) machine, compile there and install to the mounted homedir using the same directory tree layout.

pkgsrc

=> https://pkgsrc.se/ pkgsrc.se – Search for packages => https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/ pkgsrc.joyent.com – Binary packages for different UN*X operating systems (usually unsigned, except the NetBSD packages which are signed by joyent.com, but not by NetBSD because the NetBSD project could not yet agree on a way to manage signing keys) => https://www.anserinae.net/setting-up-a-pkgsrc-repository.html Set up your own pkgsrc repository

Introduction

=> gemini://gemini.clehaxze.tw/gemlog/2022/10-14-a-year-on-gemini.gmi

Static site generators

=> https://sr.ht/~gsthnz/gssg/ GSSG – Weblog (Static Site Generator) => https://git.sr.ht/~aprates/gempress Gempress

Clients / Browsers

=> https://kristall.random-projects.net/ Kristall, small internet browser supporting Gemini, Gopher, Finger, HTTP(S) is the one I like the most => gemini://skyjake.fi/lagrange/ Lagrange, beautiful, full featured SDL based => https://github.com/makew0rld/amfora Amfora, fancy, for the terminal => https://www.makeworld.space/2023/08/bye_gemini.html Amfora in maintainance mode => https://bombadillo.colorfield.space/ Bombadillo, multi protocol terminal browser => https://github.com/starfish-app/Starfish Starfish, for elementary OS (very rough, uncomplete) => https://slatecave.net/creations/dragonstone/ Dragonstone, experimental GTK 3 (same)

Search engines

=> gemini://tlgs.one => gemini://medusae.space

Proxies / Converters

=> https://tildegit.org/sbgodin/HtmGem HtmGem – Provides gmi files as html files via a on-request PHP converter. I use this one via Yunohost. => https://git.rdelaage.ovh/Gemini/mastoGem mastoGem – Mastodon => https://code.rocketnine.space/tslocum/gmitohtml GMI to HTML => https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/kineto kineto – Web to Gemini => https://github.com/makew0rld/md2gemini md2gemini – Markdown to Gemini

Servers

=> https://sr.ht/~int80h/gemserv/ Gemserv – A gemini server written in Rust – I use this one => https://sr.ht/~nbsp/cassini/ Cassini – a Gemini-ring server software written in Go => gemini://gmid.omarpolo.com/ Gmid by Omar Polo

Misc

=> https://codeberg.org/kr1sp1n/awesome-gemini Awesome Gemini A curated list of Gemini software => gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/software/lupa/stats.gmi Stats on the Gemini space

Frontend

UIKit

=> https://github.com/Midar/CryptoPassphrase App: CryptoPassphrase – ObjFW with UIKit example

Graphs

=> http://www.gnuplot.info Gnuplot => https://github.com/thiagodnf/bubble-chart-for-gnuplot Bubble Chart for Gnuplot

Database

Midgard: Content repository

=> https://github.com/midgardproject/midgard-core Midcard Core Source Code => https://web.archive.org/web/20090926065441/http://www.midgard-project.org/documentation/xcode_tutorial/ Using Midcard with XCode (archive.org) => http://midgard-project.org/docs/api/core/gjallarhorn/example-hello-world.html Hello World tutorial

Having the “Yacht” as a magazine, Germany has got a very prominent publishing medium. But since Germany only has a very short coast line you quickly recognize that there are mainly rich people sailing and we do not have too many people cultivating sailing as a part of the general culture.

So looking for real sailing culture you're better off to look at the Netherlands and our nordic neighbours.

Here I'm collecting resources about foreign sailing culture, provided in various languages.

YouTube

English YouTube channels

=> https://www.youtube.com/@AlluringArctic Juho from Finland – Alluring Arctic Sailing => https://www.youtube.com/@erikaanderaa Erik Aanderaa from Norway – No Bullshit Just Sailing => https://www.youtube.com/@WindHippieSailing Wind Hippie Sailing – Holly Martin isn't exactly nordic, but she's sailing a Bruun's Grinde full time, which qualifies => https://www.youtube.com/@RogerRoving Roger Barnes – Dinghy cruising and architecture

Danish YouTube channels

=> https://www.youtube.com/@AYLAsailing Trine and Vitus from Denmark – Ayla Sailing

Best YouTube vlog episode of all times:

=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk8L9QeW-sM Spækhuggere i Kattegat, sailing a Spækhugger round Sjælland

Video portraits

=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNh56ZKa4HY Martin Binswanger and his Styrr (hundred years old wooden sailing yacht) => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycbNQV9oRL4 Sailing Magic Carpet – LIFE IN 28 FEET: 2 Years On A Little Boat

Reports

Spækhugger sailing (German)

=> https://psb24-stoessensee.de/home/mit-dem-speckjaeger-rund-seeland/ => https://www.warum-magazin.de/draussen/segeln-mit-kindern

Museums

=> https://www.kattegatcentret.dk Kattegatcentre – a phantastic ocean aquarium, zoo and exhibition, including a corner about the journeys of Troels Kløvedal and drømmens rejse

Market squares

=> https://www.boat24.com/ Boat24.com – boats you find in magazines like the “Yacht” => https://www.scanboat.com/ scanboat.com – boat offers from Scandinavia

Boats

=> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f-T4w-Wc4k (YouTube) German review about Peter Bruun's Spækhugger => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf5S136-X3I (YouTube) German review about Peter Bruun's Grinde => https://www.najadclub.nl/bestanden/n340-brochure-ty.pdf (Najad Club NL) Ad for the Najad 340

Enterprises

=> https://www.eda-frandsen.co.uk/ Danish wooden boat in Scottish waters. => https://bessie-ellen.com/ Another Danish wooden boat in Scottish waters.

Boat Logs

=> https://lille-oe.de/

Technical

=> https://signalk.org/ Signal K – Open Source Sailing data processing => https://www.noforeignland.com/ No Foreign Land – Social media platform for boat owners

General

=> https://repology.org/ Repology.org – Overview about which packaging systems package which version of a package (clear, huh?), cool badges

I'm having great fun making old Macs usable again by installing some (mostly Debian based) GNU/Linux OS on them. I added a page with information how I accomplished that, succeedingly adding notes that were helpful to me to get it done.

=> /tech/linuxonmac.gmi