This week, we took it easy since the whole state is full of smoke from bootleg fires on the west coast. Instead of doing a weekend in the mountains, we just took a small trip on Sunday on some trails in a nearby town. Broomfield Open Space Broomfield contains a ridiculous number of intersecting trails, so we...

This post is to honour the one-year anniversary of the passing of Bill English, at age 91, on 26 July, 2020. English was Doug Engelbart’s right-hand man in the Mother of All Demos in 1968 and a key developer of the oN-Line System (NLS). The post below was initially part of a book I was writing about Engelbart. The...

Maintaining links is difficult. My gemini server doesn’t have a lot of pages, but already maintaining links between relevant pages is growing more tedious by the page. It’s going to become untenable soon. In part inspired by Antenna, I had the idea of extracting local backlinks, and automatically appending them to...