Techie, software developer, hobbyist photographer, sci-fi/fantasy & comics fan in the Los Angeles area. He/him, pronounced KELL-son (rhymes with "Nelson"). 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://notes.kvibber.com/@kelson, follow @ap.brid.gy to interacthttps://bsky.app/profile/notes.kvibber.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/notes.kvibber.com/post/3mwzhazol4vs2New post on my website! Gopher Apps on Android I did find several Gopher clients for Android! But they're all incomplete, awkward, or rapidly losing compatibility. So I've gone back to Lagrange, which handles Gopher in a Gemini client better than Netscape ever did in a web browser […] https://notes.kvibber.com/@kelson/statuses/01M42F21F8Z2WDB9RSNNNK097M04 Oct 2026 03:24 +0000at://did:plc:2yq3y2zalkjb35tut75ix2es/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwzhazol4vs2https://bsky.app/profile/notes.kvibber.com/post/3mwyd2rssfi42New post on my website! Enable Gemini (and other Small Internet) Links in WordPress You can write a Gemini link in a WordPress post, but WP won't accept one anywhere it validates URLs. Here's how to add a filter to allow more protocols. https://kvibber.com/tech-tips/smallnet-links-wordpress/ […] https://notes.kvibber.com/@kelson/statuses/01M419ZYDF5N33P0P0TYCPCMAB03 Oct 2026 16:36 +0000at://did:plc:2yq3y2zalkjb35tut75ix2es/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwyd2rssfi42https://bsky.app/profile/notes.kvibber.com/post/3mwyadhvz3zt2It's always amusing when the weather widget shows red with an extreme heat warning for the expected temperatures, but it's still showing the "current" temperature from 2 hours ago just around sunrise, which was only 66F.03 Oct 2026 15:47 +0000at://did:plc:2yq3y2zalkjb35tut75ix2es/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwyadhvz3zt2https://bsky.app/profile/notes.kvibber.com/post/3mwtgugwewem2[Subtoot] looks like I'm going to have to mute someone who's getting into "and yet you participate in society" territory for a bit01 Oct 2026 18:01 +0000at://did:plc:2yq3y2zalkjb35tut75ix2es/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwtgugwewem2https://bsky.app/profile/notes.kvibber.com/post/3mwqur3drxok2I like how we've had this XKCD cartoon for decades, yet "sending files" is something early adopters are still figuring out how to do. (It's been one of those mornings...)30 Sep 2026 17:31 +0000at://did:plc:2yq3y2zalkjb35tut75ix2es/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwqur3drxok2https://bsky.app/profile/notes.kvibber.com/post/3mweicnpnqkf2I think about this panel a lot, since the kid tends to prefer Rube Goldberg approaches to just about everything. It's either that, or trying to remember the lyrics to that Avril Lavigne song. (For context, and why Daisy is calling him McJean: this is an […] [Original post on notes.kvibber.com]25 Sep 2026 19:17 +0000at://did:plc:2yq3y2zalkjb35tut75ix2es/app.bsky.feed.post/3mweicnpnqkf2https://bsky.app/profile/notes.kvibber.com/post/3mwbyse77ied2Well, that's a relief, at least: > KDE e.V. has taken money from Framework, but only after verifying that Framework had severed their (already very limited) ties with DHH and Omarchy. Also, all of this happened a year ago, before Omarchy received a ludicrous amount of money from a veritable […] https://notes.kvibber.com/@kelson/statuses/01M3AEK1JX413T9HFQCT13KY6W24 Sep 2026 19:34 +0000at://did:plc:2yq3y2zalkjb35tut75ix2es/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwbyse77ied2https://bsky.app/profile/notes.kvibber.com/post/3mw5qmuo54ie2Processing Romulan shaders (71%)23 Sep 2026 02:57 +0000at://did:plc:2yq3y2zalkjb35tut75ix2es/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw5qmuo54ie2https://bsky.app/profile/notes.kvibber.com/post/3mvyujctq7dw2#Westercon is shutting down after 2028. Next year's combined with Baycon, and the last one - Westercon 80 - will be combined with Loscon. https://www.westercon.org/2026/07/westercon-bylaws-repealed-westercon-to-retire-at-end-of-2028/ I've only been to a handful of them myself, most recently in […] https://notes.kvibber.com/@kelson/statuses/01M31393FZ7R6C14YKNJ7HTQW121 Sep 2026 04:23 +0000at://did:plc:2yq3y2zalkjb35tut75ix2es/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvyujctq7dw2https://bsky.app/profile/notes.kvibber.com/post/3mvyn4qmch3c2I was thinking about shared shopping list apps, and suddenly remembered when one of the local grocery stores opened back in 2012 or so, and the cell signal was only reliable at the front of the store, so I'd see something I wanted a second opinion on at the back of the store, send my wife a text […] https://notes.kvibber.com/@kelson/statuses/01M30VPYX8KCKGPJ293P8WAJ4121 Sep 2026 02:11 +0000at://did:plc:2yq3y2zalkjb35tut75ix2es/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvyn4qmch3c2https://bsky.app/profile/notes.kvibber.com/post/3mvxm7ge3kvc2On the subject of "just do it", yesterday I watched someone wearing that slogan on a T-shirt brazenly cross the street against a red light, ignoring the car horns from drivers who were trying to go through on their green.20 Sep 2026 16:22 +0000at://did:plc:2yq3y2zalkjb35tut75ix2es/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvxm7ge3kvc2https://bsky.app/profile/notes.kvibber.com/post/3mvxm3qonnvo2[Uspol, OpenStreetMap, naming things] OpenStreetMap's consensus on renaming from the bully pulpit: 1. OSM always prioritizes what's actually on the ground. 2. Alternate names can be added for search matching. So Lake Ontario, Denali, and the Gulf of Mexico all appear on the map with […] https://notes.kvibber.com/@kelson/statuses/01M2ZSWN3VH0ZC03J6CWM9ASSW20 Sep 2026 16:20 +0000at://did:plc:2yq3y2zalkjb35tut75ix2es/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvxm3qonnvo2https://bsky.app/profile/notes.kvibber.com/post/3mvvwav7sy5o2Oh hey, I'm halfway there. https://kvibber.com/tag/100daystooffload 50 new pages since May, easily on track to hit 100 in less than a year. #100daystooffload #IndieWeb https://kvibber.com/reviews/books/always-coming-home/20 Sep 2026 00:16 +0000at://did:plc:2yq3y2zalkjb35tut75ix2es/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvvwav7sy5o2https://bsky.app/profile/notes.kvibber.com/post/3mvtegufy77n2Another #gopher history question: Does anyone know where the non-standard 'i' prefix for informational text in a gopher menu came from, or how it became common? I tried asking at bbs.geminispace.org, and I got one response onsite containing several paragraphs explaining _what item types are_ in […] https://notes.kvibber.com/@kelson/statuses/01M2VEZQGC40XMNGXWXD802CFT18 Sep 2026 23:52 +0000at://did:plc:2yq3y2zalkjb35tut75ix2es/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvtegufy77n2https://bsky.app/profile/notes.kvibber.com/post/3mvo3dsxfns72It's funny how the last couple of days have felt _so much cooler_...but the temperature hasn't actually dropped, just the humidity.16 Sep 2026 21:26 +0000at://did:plc:2yq3y2zalkjb35tut75ix2es/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvo3dsxfns72https://bsky.app/profile/notes.kvibber.com/post/3mvnyuerkbmz2The Smithsonian: Showing you the real history that the government doesn't want you to know! https://newrepublic.com/post/215482/donald-trump-signs-accusing-smithsonian16 Sep 2026 20:42 +0000at://did:plc:2yq3y2zalkjb35tut75ix2es/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvnyuerkbmz2