Gopher

The Old web was better I hear a persistent complaint levied by people who have been using computers since Dial-up was a thing. (psssst… kids… Dial-up was an old technology where you gave your computer a phone and it would scream at another computer over the phone in some weird machine language. If you picked up the phone, you could hear them talking.) You can see this argument on: Reddit ...

April 13, 2025 · 6 min

How to Make friends with Bash!

This’ll be a short one, but I recently moved to a new city and it’s always difficult to meet new people if you aren’t part of some large organization or religion. One way to get familiar with new people is to use https://meetup.com. The issue I was facing is that the city I’m a part of is huge and there are a ton of groups. Trying to login to each group individually would take like 20 minutes if I just wanted to see what they were up to. So here’s a little script that I made with chatGPT and some unix philosophy magic that will give us all of the group urls, event names, and times so that I can see if any of them interest me this week. ...

January 5, 2025 · 3 min