Easily one of my favourite "tech" TV shows. But now I'm curious, has anyone recently found something similar to HCF that they similarly enjoyed? I've never found anything I've enjoyed quite as much as HCF.
My initial fish likelihood score was 7% and I couldn't get it past 12% without looking up what a fish looks like. I learned a lot about myself via this app, so thank you.
Gemini for me has been such a breath of fresh air in contrast to 2025 Internet, with so many ads, grift and now AI slop.
Back when I first discovered Gemini, I wanted to create a space for people to have a voice without needing to run their own server, so I built Station (https://martinrue.com/station). I've been running it ever since.
Gemini in general, and specifically folk who use Station regularly, make it a friendly, throwback-to-the-90s vibe, and I still value it a lot.
https://github.com/dimkr/tootik is another Gemini social network that does federate over ActivityPub, and I've been thinking about developing a minimalist ActivityPub alternative (maybe using Gemini and Titan to replace HTTP GET and POST, respectively) that can coexist with ActivityPub support
This is an interesting project. So the whole thing is hosted at gemini://station.martinrue.com, with no way to host other instances? Stuff like this that leverages the default TLS nature of gemini is pretty exciting. I'm going to have to set up an account later to check it out.
Edit: Checked it out and this is definitely a cool idea. Is there any way to change the unicode emoji next to your name?
Reading this I totally feel the hacker vibes that carried me through my teens. Just sitting down and building something cool for the fun of it. Nice work! I once did something similar in C to create a 2d isometric training campus where I could teach others C on a whiteboard. I made the walls in Paint, just like you mentioned! One of the most fun things I ever made.
Not FOSS, but for anyone who may find it useful, I launched a language learning project I've been hacking away on for a few months. Any feedback most welcome! https://langsesh.com
Curiosity leads you down interesting roads. You may become very good at things that most people don't really know about. But that's what leads into interesting experiences that most people don't have. Ideally, you find other people who also love it. Friends, lovers, and community. Or you travel alone and live the life you desire from one interest to the next. Stay footloose and fancy-free. Being able to trace your own evolution is good, but don't let any of your experiences crystalize into a fixed story, or you'll become too bound to them. Everything you experience makes part of who you are; it's all quite random, it isn't fate, nor meant to be. But every small decision you make against those random situations are what defines you.
Bla bla bla. This is not some stock wisdom. Just my advice as a fellow person who lived on the road for 15 years, and always followed my instincts to stay or leave.
The best thing I learned for myself was this: Never say no when someone invites you somewhere new. You'll only regret not trying it.
(I've lived in Prague, Avignon, Granada, Saigon, Bangkok, Adelaide, Buenos Aires... at least 6 months each, and a dozen more, drawn to different places by tales from people I met, and some who I traveled with). [edit: this list of places as opposed to other places probably reveals quite a lot, and is not meant to stuff my credentials; they're places every free world traveler of a certain kind probably has gone. More just to explain that we take these paths, and one thing leads to another...]
