Unpopular opinion: I'm a top-poster. Important stuff comes at the top. No scrolling required. Everything else is optional. If you want, there's the history of that thread right below the important part. More recent stuff – the more important stuff – is near your current position, which happens to be near the top. Sure, if clients displayed the bottom of a mail right a way, we could have things in order. But: scroll down to read the rest of the mail, scroll up for its history? That'd be weird.

@ekaitz_zarraga @superandoni that is the very framework I used and linked from my README! ?

@ekaitz_zarraga in the process of writing a #gopher client: "When software has few dependencies or no dependencies at all you have more control over the process of making it. People who code in popular programming languages have even more libraries than we need and it’s really hard to stop the temptation to use them." Thoughts I've had myself when I decided to write Gridmapper using Vanilla JS.
https://ekaitz.elenq.tech/clopher01.html
https://campaignwiki.org/gridmapper.svg
#programming

Now that all my plugins are gone I wonder what the correct way to handle the Internet is. Ignore, i.e. open all the doors? Disable signature checking, i.e. unlock all the doors? Limit myself to the small Internet, the sites I know and trust, i.e. Mastodon and my blog? Use a text browser? Ditch the WWW and use gopher clients? Is lynx still the best browser there is? Yes: safe web and gopher, both!

@ekaitz_zarraga I didn't work through the entire book but I remember being flabbergasted when I read after having worked as a programmer for ten years for sure.

@ekaitz_zarraga Hah! Personally I’m interested in a Gopher client that would make it easy to work on something like a wiki. A read-write-gopher! I had a prototype branch in VF-1 and in gopher.el for Emacs but nobody else seemed interested at the time.
https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2017-12-30_Gopher_Wiki

Recent events in my Google+ timeline have reminded me once more that the most important rule in communication is the principle of charity: interpreting a speaker's statements in the most rational way possible and, in the case of any argument, considering its best, strongest possible interpretation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
Condemnations come easy. But it's easier to tear things down than to build them up. It's easier to wage war than build peace, to sow mistrust than to make friends. Be good. ❤️

blindysocial.masto.host, "a general perpous instance for blind or visually impared people."
I fondly working on ERC, one of the IRC clients for Emacs, with delYsid (Mario Lang), blind developer from Graz, Ausria. Good times. First time I had heard of braille displays (his screen was 40x1 characters and I felt 80x25 was harsh!), he recorded his speech synth reading IRC channel chatter at double (or more?) the speed... I enjoyed that very much. So much new stuff!