09 November 2025: A LEAP AND A BOUND

Full details in my previous entry, but I feel like I made a big leap 
yesterday. Something I have realised today is that the written text on my 
previous entries doesn't wrap the way I expected. Today I'm testing writing 
my entry in a smaller terminal window. I don't know if it will make any 
difference, or if there is something I need to do to make it wrap more 
responsively.

If I'm not careful, my enthusiam for gopherspace is going to take up a 
significant portion of my time. At the moment I feel like I could spend hours 
upon hours happily tapping away at my keyboard, updating my pages, looking 
around. I feel like I did when the internet really started becoming 
widespread. It's nice to experience that feeling again, but I do need to be 
sure I keep attending to the other irons I have in the fire, so to speak.

For others me who are very new to gopherspace, Linux and Unix: it seems that 
everything is easy once you know how. Anything you want to do here is within 
reach, it's finding sources of knowledge that meet you where you're at that's 
the trouble. A lot of the guides I've found so far seem to take a fair amount 
of previous knowledge and practise for granted. That's why I wrote out my 
method for gophermaps in yesterday's entry, maybe it can help someone else 
who's as green as I am. And if I find the kind of beginner's guide I'd find 
useful, I will make sure to put the link to it here. Or maybe I will just 
keep figuring things out and eventually write my own!

In any case - I will say it again, I am very happy to have found gopherspace. 
The interactions I've had here so far somehow feel a great deal more like 
genuine human connection than anything I've experienced elsewhere online for 
a very long time. Perhaps it's because we only have our words, and there's no 
counters, so it's less performative. I certainly feel like the standards of 
literacy and civility are higher here.

Perhaps more later,

lilac