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inline-images patch for gopherproxy-c
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Prologue
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If the world would be a better place, a small and simple gopherhole would be all
you need.
The world is not there yet.
Only a few of us have understood the value of simplicity over feature-richness.
But more and more people start to understand these values.
One problem is that people start to realize the value of simplicity very late.
By then they already have learned and internalized a lot of paradigms that nebulize
their view.
At this stage it is hard for them to imagine that all the fun things that we do and
love can be achieved without a overcomplex browser program like Google Chrome or
Firefox or other harmful software.
A wise man once tought me:
Don't force them, live a funny happy life and show
them through this example how things should be done.
- __20h__, 2016
Following these wise words I try to live a happy and simple life and - if the chance
occurs - I do show my way of doing things.
And I noticed that this works pretty well. I was able to make people curious and
have them start to think outside the box.
Coming from a life full of complexity and driven by consumerism, making the immediate
shift towards a life of simplicity and real freedom can be discouraging. Like jumping
down a cliff.
Therefore, metaphorically spoken, I decided to build a staircase for them to climb
down to the idyllic valley of freedom and simplicty.
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Another wise man once wrote a fine piece of software that can function as exactly
that staircase.
Evil_Bob wrote:
DIR gopherproxy-c
I use the gopherproxy to make my gopherhole accessable to people that are at the
beginning of their journey.
The Patch
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In order to metaphorically lower the height of each stair tread, I made a patch
that changes gopherproxy-c to render pictures *inline*.
This patch itself can act as an example that simple software can be hacked to what
you want it to do.
And the appearance of pictures inside a gopher-based site proves that pictures can
still play a role in the world of gopher.
Check out the patch:
TEXT goperproxyc-inline-images.diff
IMG staircase.png