Add a blog post on using gopher

_data/pages.yml

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   - {name: 'About', url: 'about.html'}
   - {name: 'Tags', url: 'categories'}
   - {name: 'Feed', url: 'atom.xml'}
+  - {name: 'Gopher', url: 'gopher://gopher.brokenco.de/'}

_posts/2020-08-06-go-for-it.md

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+---
+layout: post
+title: Gopher it
+tags:
+- gopher
+- opinion
+---
+
+The web is getting faster but feeling slower, something which I have
+complained about loudly on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/agentdero) but now
+some folks have put together [data to back it
+up](https://www.nngroup.com/articles/the-need-for-speed/). The web is
+simultaneously a medium to transmit documents (e.g. an article) and an
+application platform (e.g. Jira). Anecdotally it seems to me like far too many
+publishers think of the web only as the _latter_. There are more and more
+websites which require significant JavaScript or other multimedia resources to
+render what ends up being a few paragraphs of text. If you don't believe me,
+just visit the website for your local television news station with
+[NoScript](https://noscript.net/) turned on. In my own way, I have been
+resisting this push by keeping this blog as barebones as neceessary to present
+the content you're reading now. On a whim, I recently took this idea a little
+bit further by deploying a [Gopher site](gopher://gopher.brokenco.de/) (viewable over HTTP via [a proxy](https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?a=gopher%3A%2F%2Fgopher.brokenco.de)).
+
+![gopher.brokenco.de viewed with elinks](/images/post-images/2020-gopher/gopherspace.png)
+
+[Gopher](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)) is old, somewhat
+primitive, but still captures my interest because of those qualities. By and
+large I have filled up my gopher site with this blog content, a couple other
+text files, and archives of some of my video presentations which I
+downloaded from YouTube.
+
+When I first started tinkering around with the idea, I was absolutely floored
+by how fast content was loading via some of the Gopher sites I was visiting,
+even over [Tor](https://tor-project.org) the responsiveness of sending a few
+kilobytes cannot be understated.
+
+I do not plan on publishing too much content "exclusively" via Gopher, since
+HTTP is where most things on the internet are happening these days. I have
+however set up an automatic publishing pipeline for my blog and other content
+to automatically go to [gopher.brokenco.de](gopher://gopher.brokenco.de) once
+it has been committed.
+
+Personally I find [elinks](http://elinks.or.cz/) to be a good Gopher client,
+though others [do exist](https://github.com/xvxx/phetch). If you're interested
+in exploring some of the content that lives on the interview via Gopher, I
+recommend starting at [gopherproject.org](gopher://gopherproject.org). Have
+fun! :)
+

tag/gopher.md

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 ---
 layout: tag_page
-title: "Tag: meows"
-tag: meows
+title: "Tag: gopher"
+tag: gopher
 robots: noindex
 ---

tag/smol.md

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-layout: tag_page
-title: "Tag: smol"
-tag: smol
-robots: noindex
----