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@radhitya @stefano there's a video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcaylXGt2j8 on the BSD Cafe setup and various articles on their website at https://it-notes.dragas.net/ which I've found helpful for hints on some aspects of this.

#decemberAdventure day 9: back to #gopher

A number of years ago I setup my own search tool for the gopherspace. I've not re-done a full crawl since getting it working, and due to some design issues, it eventually stopped working reliably enough to keep running. Due to RSI issues, I have prioritized other projects in the intervening years, but have slowly made a list of notes and plans for fixing it. Today's adventure is the first part in implementing my plan and getting it back to a useable state.

I've rewritten the crawler. The new one is a lot less buggy than the original, and has a number of improvement including a correctly working filter (supporting robots.txt and a defined list of servers not to index), better discovery of servers from the gopher maps, tracking when servers were last scanned, request rate limiting, and facilities for avoiding recording duplicate entries.

My initial tests have been on my main gopher server (forthworks.com:70) and a number of my private ones. This totals 32k selectors across 3 servers. I'm going to start a broader scan of the public gopherspace soon, so will update once I get through the initial scan of a few servers.

My full logs are at https://charles.childe.rs/DA2025

#decemberAdventure day 5: Wrapping up the new ilo implementations, today I did GNU Smalltalk. It's in the repository at http://fossils.retroforth.org:8000/ilo/dir?ci=tip With this I now have implemented ilo in 25 programming languages.

This isn't yet good Smalltalk, it's very much like the C original in structure, though I did make some notes on things I need to improve. I might revisit this later this month.

My full logs are at https://charles.childe.rs/DA2025/

#decemberAdventure day 4: I wrote an ilo implementation in Oberon (for obcn). The code is in the repository and the adventure log is at https://charles.childe.rs/DA2025/

Tomorrow I'll be attempting to do one in Smalltalk.

I've also used a bit of awk to clean up the log formatting (which are extracted from my blocks under my konilo system) for improved readability.

#decemberAdventure day 2: I've implemented most of an ilo vm in Ada. There's two remaining things to do to finish this, but I'm holding off until tomorrow for those. Adventure log @ https://charles.childe.rs/DA2025/

I might do an Oberon version next.

#decemberAdventure has begun. I'm posting my logs this year at https://charles.childe.rs/DA2025/

Today I wrote an implementation of my ilo vm in Free Pascal.

I've finished the initial Haskell implementation of my ilo vm for #konilo #forth

As with the nga implementation for #retroforth, it's not going to be good yet, but it's a start.

http://fossils.retroforth.org:8000/ilo/file?name=vm/Ilo.hs&ci=2b817e17ddcc281a

Continuing my operating systems work, I now have a working ilo-amd64-uefi system. It has a small set of drivers using uefi, the ilo vm, and an included copy of my konilo forth rom. It can use a disk or partition for blocks (the test image has the blocks in a separate partition).

- Asciinema recording: https://asciinema.org/a/Lbxa2w9R5IbaJqW3INqVrbX8E
- USB/disk image: https://konilo.org/ilo-amd64-uefi.img.gz (http also works)
- the source code will be added to the ilo fossil & git repositories over the weekend

I've not tested this on actual hardware yet, but plan to do so once I can find a spare USB drive.

Testing something for http://forth.chat : http://88.99.92.114:12456/ is a thing for searching the logs. Hoping to get a little feedback before I do anything further with it.