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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 2h
Working on my communication skills: www.youtube.com/watch?v=59ie...
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 22h
I just discovered House of the Dying Sun. It runs pretty well locally on the Steam Frame too. I especially love how it’s kind of a colonial Viper simulator; only you’re gleefully evil.
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 02/10/2026
#Rogallo v3.0.0 is available, which overhauls the way you configure the application. blog.davep.org/2026/10/02/r... #GeminiProtocol #Gopher #Finger #SmallWeb #smolweb #python
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Rogallo v3.0.0
It's been a while since I last published an update to Rogallo. In part this is because I've had other distractions, but also in part because I've not had a huge need to add any new features of late. F...
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 01/10/2026
Been having fun with VFM: blog.davep.org/2026/10/01/v... #vr
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Virtual Fighter Maneuvers
I realise I've been a bit quiet on the blog front for a few days, in part because I've also been a bit quiet on the coding front too. Looking at my GitHub contribution graph, the previous three days w...
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 29/09/2026
Time to visit the cave. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSVg...
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 29/09/2026
This is kinda neat. #Gopher weather service. gopher://weather.orbitaloutpost.club:7070/1/u/metric
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 28/09/2026
Buggering around in a castle, mostly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l05A...
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 26/09/2026
My initial impressions of the Steam Frame, after finally getting a moment to unbox and play with it: blog.davep.org/2026/09/26/i... #SteamFrame #Valve #VR #gaming
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Initial Steam Frame impressions
Yesterday evening I finally had the chance to unbox my Steam Frame and have an initial play with it. Here are my impressions of it after playing for a couple of hours. Note that this isn't intended to...
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 25/09/2026
Some recent links I've saved: blog.davep.org/2026/09/25/r...
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Recently I found - 8
An occasional collection of things I've recently found on the Internet and added to my bookmarks.
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 24/09/2026
I'm having a pretty bad time with Siri since *27. blog.davep.org/2026/09/24/s...
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Siri is broken
I think, in part, I regret upgrading any of my Apple devices to the 27 line of operating systems. While my experience as a whole has been pretty favourable, the one thing I was looking forward to is n...
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 23/09/2026
More mucking about in the Interchange: www.youtube.com/watch?v=93oQ...
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 23/09/2026
Well look what turned up! blog.davep.org/2026/09/23/s... #SteamFrame #VR
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Steam Frame is here
Actually a little sooner than I was expecting -- look what turned up today!
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 22/09/2026
Hunting for research: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq-Q...
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 22/09/2026
GopherMap v1.1.0, in which I add a couple of types I'd missed out: blog.davep.org/2026/09/22/g... #SmallWeb #smolweb #gopher #Python
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GopherMap v1.1.0
I've just made a small update to GopherMap. While doing some work on Rogallo I noticed that, somehow, I wasn't showing a type "badge" for PNG files (p). I spent a moment or two trying to figure out wh...
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 21/09/2026
Back to the woods: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpm6...
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 20/09/2026
Gonna go work for the man: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF_a...
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 19/09/2026
Back up t'north: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyTP...
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 16/09/2026
Wandering around t'village and stuff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuJp...
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 15/09/2026
Gathering some messages: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjW-...
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 14/09/2026
Let's try and do some actual quests. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs2g...
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 13/09/2026
From t'north and t'60s, just like me... www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdMJ...
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 13/09/2026
Looks like code reviews on #GitHub are screwed up now. blog.davep.org/2026/09/13/g...
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GitHub PR reviews broken
Late on last week I was doing a PR review at work and noticed that, for some odd reason, the author of the PR seemed to have absolutely nuked all of the indentation in the code. While not a problem gi...
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 12/09/2026
I haven’t set up my PCVR rig since I moved about 10 or so months ago, so haven’t tried it in the intended VR yet. But DAMN Gunman Contracts is all kinds of fun flatscreen on the SteamDeck!
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 09/09/2026
Time to try out Atomfall www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU8z...
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 09/09/2026
#Rogallo v2.4.0 is now available, which adds a trusted hosts browser/manager and also adds text search to the viewer. blog.davep.org/2026/09/09/r... #Gemini #GeminiPRotocol #SmallWeb #smolweb #terminal #Python
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Rogallo v2.4.0
I've released Rogallo v2.4.0, which contains two new features.
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 08/09/2026
Three pears to go... www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNqX...
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 07/09/2026
Going for the last 4 pears. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX6v...
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 06/09/2026
Working on the pears. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRX0...
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 06/09/2026
#Rogallo v2.3.0 has been released. This version adds support for the #TitanProtocol and also improves the #GeminiProtocol input dialog. blog.davep.org/2026/09/06/r... #SmallWeb #smolweb #terminal #python
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Rogallo v2.3.0
Rogallo v2.3.0 is now available. The main addition to this release is support for the Titan Protocol.
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 05/09/2026
Bigish Walk! www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDxI...
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 05/09/2026
Erm… but why though? It’s been fine for bloody ages.
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 05/09/2026
#Titan support in #Rogallo is *very* close to complete now. Text upload support done. File upload support done. Also added `;edit` support too. Some last tests and tweaks to faff with and I think it'll be good to go. #GeminiProtocol #gemini #SmallWeb #smolweb #terminal #python
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 05/09/2026
Wasat v1.9.0, which extends the #Titan support with the proposed edit extension. blog.davep.org/2026/09/05/w... #SmallWeb #smolweb #python
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Wasat v1.9.0
The work to add Titan support to Rogallo is going well, and I've been able to test it out fine on bbs, doing additions of "long text" and performing file uploads. In doing so, though, I was reminded t...
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 03/09/2026
Adding #Titan support to Wasat, in anticipation of adding it to #Rogallo. blog.davep.org/2026/09/03/w... #Gemini #GeminiProtocol #SmallWeb #smolweb #terminal #Python
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Wasat v1.8.0
Another quick little update to Wasat, bumping the version to v1.8.0. This version is in support of some work I'm about to do on Rogallo: Titan support.
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 03/09/2026
#Rogallo v2.2.0 is available. This release makes it easier to copy URIs from within a document, or open them outwith of Rogallo; it also makes some finger responses richer (adding links you can follow). blog.davep.org/2026/09/03/r... #finger #SmallWeb #smolweb #terminal #python
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Rogallo v2.2.0
Rogallo v2.2.0 is available. This release contains a handful of small new features and also a very minor cosmetic change.
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 02/09/2026
finger2gemtext - A small Python library to convert some #finger output into #Gemtext blog.davep.org/2026/09/02/f... #python #SmallWeb #smolweb
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finger2gemtext - A library for converting finger responses to Gemtext
I've just released the first version of another library in the collection of libraries that support the development of Rogallo: specifically, another one that helps convert text in other formats into ...
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 01/09/2026
More pear bothering: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD8V...
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 31/08/2026
Walking big in Big Walk. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKip...
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 31/08/2026
The effort police: blog.davep.org/2026/08/31/t...
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The effort police
Earlier today I saw a comment on a post on BBS that was really quite disappointing. The post itself was announcing a new Gemini client, in this case a fully-native macOS one called MajorTom. It's earl...
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 31/08/2026
#Rogallo v2.1.0 is now available, this mostly includes some cosmetic fixes and tweaks, and also improves the security alert dialog when visiting a #Gemini capsule whose cert has changed. blog.davep.org/2026/08/31/r... #GeminiProtocol #SmallWeb #smolweb #terminal #python
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Rogallo v2.1.0
I've just made a small release to Rogallo, bumping the version to v2.1.0. This release mostly has some small cosmetic fixes and improvements, and one new feature.
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 30/08/2026
Recently I found... blog.davep.org/2026/08/30/r...
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An occasional collection of things I've recently found on the Internet and added to my bookmarks.
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 29/08/2026
#Rogallo v2.0.0 is now available. This release includes a #Gemini client certificate manager, an overhaul of the side panel, an overhaul of emoji removal, and many performance improvements. blog.davep.org/2026/08/29/r... #SmallWeb #smolweb #GeminiProtocol #Python #terminal
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Rogallo v2.0.0
I've just released v2.0.0 of Rogallo. This release has quite a lot of changes, one or two of them "breaking changes", hence the bump to v2.0.0. I will add though that, when I say "breaking changes", n...
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 29/08/2026
Bumping some of the #Rogallo support libraries to stable status. blog.davep.org/2026/08/29/a... #Python
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A lot of stability
While it might seem that it's been pretty quiet on the Rogallo front the past few days, I've been doing some work on it every day. There are a lot of changes and improvements coming. As I got the next...
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 26/08/2026
More Big Walk www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhTH...
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 25/08/2026
Big walk with guests www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-tB...
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 25/08/2026
Wasat v1.5.0, which adds an API for exporting and importing client certificates. blog.davep.org/2026/08/25/w...
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Wasat v1.5.0
I'm still working on the client certificate management PR for Rogallo, which, of course, heavily leans on the API of Wasat. In most cases, I've noticed that something I want to do in the PR can alread...
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 24/08/2026
Time for another Big Walk. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYki...
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 24/08/2026
Quick update to #Rogallo to fix a bug with client certificate creation: blog.davep.org/2026/08/24/r... #SmallWeb #smolweb #Gemini #GeminiProtocol #python #terminal
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Rogallo v1.12.1
I've just made a small but important bug fix to Rogallo. Currently, I'm working on a more comprehensive approach to managing client-side certificates and, in doing so, I noted a bug with how such cert...
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 23/08/2026
Big Walk! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h8a...
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Dave Pearson @davep.org · 23/08/2026
I've added some client certificate management abilities to Wasat, in anticipation of adding a UI for this to #Rogallo. blog.davep.org/2026/08/23/w...
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Wasat v1.4.0
Another bump to Wasat, this being v1.4.0. This release is in support of some work I want to do on Rogallo, where I intend to add proper client certificate management.
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