Dave Pearson

I think I'm very close to calling the #Gopher support for #Rogallo initially complete. Still some testing to do, but I'm navigating various servers just fine now.

#SmallWeb #smolweb #python #programming

I'm kind of surprised to find that there doesn't appear to be an #Emacs package that provides a handy mode for editing #gophermap files. Like, sure, they're not *that* tricky, but it seems like it could be (or could once have been) a handy mode.

#gopher

Next up in #Rogallo -- how about some optional "badges" to show alongside each type of link in a #gopher map?

#SmallWeb #smolweb

FFS.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y6r9rdxygo

Right. gopher://-handling in place. Now to draw the rest of the fucking owl.

#Rogallo #SmallWeb #smolweb #gopher #python #programming

New version of #Rogallo, which seeks to improve the way that a capsule's certificate is validated.

https://blog.davep.org/2026/07/31/rogallo-v1-4-0.html

#Gemini #GeminiProtocol #SmallWeb #smolweb #terminal #python #programming

Adding a wee screen that shows information about the currently-viewed page in #Rogallo.

#SmallWeb #smolweb #GeminiProtocol #python #programming #terminal

Thinking about trying to speed up #BlogMore a wee bit: https://blog.davep.org/2026/05/11/speeding-up-blogmore.html

#python #programming #ssg

#Rogallo v1.2.0 is now available. The main change in this release is initial work on supporting the #Gopher protocol.

https://blog.davep.org/2026/07/28/rogallo-v1-2-0.html

#Gopher #Gemini #GeminiProtocol #SmallWeb #smolweb #python #programming

#BlogMore v2.21.0 is now available. This adds a lint command that is used to check your blog content for various issues.

https://blog.davep.org/2026/05/10/blogmore-v2-21-0.html

#blogging #ssg #python #programming #writing #linting

Cleaned up wordcloud.el, a little #Emacs package that turns a buffer into a word cloud, of sorts: https://blog.davep.org/2026/04/14/wordcloud-el-v1-4.html

#elisp #lisp #programming

My shiny new MacBook Air is pretty awesome. Did some setting up this evening. Utterly failing to get my Emacs environment to run up though. Something odd with git-gutter/git-gutter-fringe. Also had tons of stuff barf over cond-let. Weird ‘cos on the other 3 Macs I regularly use all is fine (albeit I’ve not rebuilt from scratch in a while).

Experimenting with how you build an MCP server, by building a server for Norton Guide files (of course!). So far it's going... surprisingly well. Now I can ask questions about CA-Clipper programming and get really slow answers.

#ai #llm #python #programming #clipper #msdos

Yesterday I discovered powRSS: https://blog.davep.org/2026/04/11/discovering-powrss.html

#blogging #blog #feeds #rss

When you decide to dive into an otherwise AI-coded codebase, and you want to make by-hand changes, at least there are tests.

Right?

https://blog.davep.org/2026/05/01/at-least-there-are-tests.html

#ai #agent #agentic #copilot #claude #python #pytest

#BlogMore v2.12.0 is out, with a couple of improvements to the sitemap and the ability to index the stats page: https://blog.davep.org/2026/04/10/blogmore-v2-12-0.html

#python #programming #blogging #webdev #ssg

I've released #BlogMore v2.11.0, with this version adding more streak-based stats and a whole blog calendar/history view. Because why the hell not.

https://blog.davep.org/2026/04/09/blogmore-v2-11-0.html

#blogging #python #programming #ssg

So @SuperMarielle@mas.to is questioning our relationship status after seeing me eat a Kiwi. Apparently I do it wrong. 😑

Lots of checks and stuff to do yet, and also a couple more things I want to tweak, but #BlogMore is looking quite a bit faster for not too much work.

My new toy has arrived, a week after ordering it: https://blog.davep.org/2026/05/11/steam-controller-is-here.html

#Steam #SteamController #Valve #Gaming

Gemini, when modifying code, has some odd obsessions: https://blog.davep.org/2026/05/10/an-argument-with-gemini.html

#ai #google #gemini #programming #python

Experimenting some more with an #MCP server to better understand this stuff: https://blog.davep.org/2026/04/12/ngmcp-v0-2-0.html

#MSDOS #clipper #nortonguide #AI #python #programming #fastMCP

#BlogMore v2.13.0 is now available, with a couple of fixes related to clean URL use (discovered thanks to the Google Search Console). https://blog.davep.org/2026/04/11/blogmore-v2-13-0.html

#blogging #blog #ssg #python #programming

I've released v1.2.0 of obs2nlm, a tool to turn an #Obsidian vault into a source for #NotebookLM. This release adds the ability to split a vault into multiple sources.

https://blog.davep.org/2026/04/10/obs2nlm-v1-2-0.html

#python #programming #ai #llm

#Rogallo is updated to v1.3.0. This version adds Gopher type "badges" and an alias facility for the command line: https://blog.davep.org/2026/07/29/rogallo-v1-3-0.html

#SmallWeb #smolweb #Gemini #GeminiProtocol #python #programming

My son keeps trying to sell me on https://store.steampowered.com/app/3904850/Approximately_Up/ and I'm "eh, looks fun but nope don't need a building game ATM" and then I realised I could try and build Serenity and now I'm rethinking how I spend my evenings.

The new #BlogMore linter has helped already: https://blog.davep.org/2026/05/11/the-linter-helped-already.html

Slowly improving the host verification approach in Wasat: https://blog.davep.org/2026/07/30/wasat-v1-2-0.html

Quick update to Wasat, to improve on the changes added in v1.2.0: https://blog.davep.org/2026/07/30/wasat-v1-3-0.html

I've released the first version of NGMCP, an MCP server for reading and querying Norton Guide database files. https://blog.davep.org/2026/04/11/ngmcp-an-mcp-experiment.html

#python #programming #mcp #fastmcp #ai #agent #msdos

More tinking with an MCP server, and learning it's kinda clunky to develop and test one with #Copilot CLI: https://blog.davep.org/2026/04/12/global-and-local-mcp-servers-with-copilot-cli.html

#mcp #fastmcp #ai #python #programming #github

Random thought: if the @fsf@hostux.social obsolete your contribution, I wonder if they'd be willing to sign copyright back over?

https://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2025-03/msg00208.html etc for context.

Wee bug fix update to #Rogallo: https://blog.davep.org/2026/07/27/rogallo-v1-1-1.html

#Gemini #GeminiProtocol #SmallWeb #smolweb #python #programming

Having added finger support to #Rogallo, I guess it makes sense that I also look to adding Gopher support too.

https://blog.davep.org/2026/07/26/port70-a-gopher-protocol-library-for-python.html

I guess, if I'm going to run with #Gopher support in #Rogallo, I should have a wee site too: gopher://tilde.team/1/~davep/

#SmallWeb

Made a wee library to help with loading up Gopher server responses: https://blog.davep.org/2026/07/27/gophermap-a-simple-library-for-parsing-gopher-responses.html

#Rogallo #SmallWeb #gopher #python #programming

Thinking some more about unreliable tools: https://blog.davep.org/2026/05/12/the-other-unreliable-buddy.html

#ai #programming #leadership