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skyjake's Capsule is a personal blog at gmi.skyjake.fi about programming and writing. Since 2020, 26 different Hacker News readers have linked it 32 times, most often “Lagrange: A GUI client for browsing Geminispace”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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26HN people?
2020–2026first – last linked?
Too few sampled comments (26) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
skyjake's Gemini capsule, which mainly serves as the project page for the Lagrange browser. Commenters link it when recommending Lagrange as a client for Gemini, Gopher and Finger.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 26 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Lagrange: A GUI client for browsing Geminispace23 people · 28 mentions · first linked 2020-11-14
What Hacker News says?
Why not go back to WAP & WML? ;) There is QML (see https://www.canonic.com ) and Gemini (see https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/ ) as alternatives.
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on “Web Browser Engineering (2021)”Submitted Lagrange: A GUI client for browsing Geminispace as a story · 3 points
HN discussionGemini protocol is lightweight alternative to HTTP which concentrates on the actual content (like Gopher). I spent couple of nights just browsing random people’s pages and it felt like fresh air – and very reminiscient of the nineties web! Give Gemini a try: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/ The Lagrange browser is quite nice to browse Gemini: https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/
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on “The 88x31 GIF Collection”Submitted Mastodo or Mastodon't as a story · 3 points
HN discussionCentralization is key to imparting knowledge, establishing law and order, and securing our existence through terraforming the planet on an immense scale — which is what separates humans from animals. Scott Alexander uses the example of the US interstate highway system to defend the type of “centralization” which has been so crucial in humanity’s increasing standard of living [1]: > I like Seeing Like A State as much…
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on “Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work”Submitted Show HN: Lagrange – A Beautiful Gemini & Gopher Client as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIf we're going minimal, then why not Finger as a Twitter replacement? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol) Finger communities/hosting: https://finger.farm/ https://happynetbox.com/ https://plan.cat/ (thank you gbrown for reminding me of this) browsers that support finger (in addition to other protocols such as Gopher and Gemini): https://kristall.random-projects.net/ https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/
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on “Git as a janky Twitter replacement”Submitted Lagrange v1.20: SOCKS5, Handheld Port, Gamepads, UI/Audio Improvements as a story · 2 points
HN discussionU+0007 represents the character for ‘make the bell on the teletypewriter ring.’ This isn’t practically used by hardly anyone today, but it remains a part of the Unicode standard and probably will forever. I don’t want to disparage Unicode, because it does provide a good solution to the problem. But it has its own issues and its own degree of complexity. This issue is something I’ve been thinking about lately since s…
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on “I hate almost all software (2011)”Submitted A Smörgåsbord of Problems as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI’ve been quite impressed by the Gemini browser LaGrange[1]. Does it’s own antialiased text rendering straight to SDL. Automatic site coloring as an option. Would be neat to see something like this with basic HTML 3-ish support (basic tables, lists etc) [1]: https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/
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on “Why I Don't Use Netscape (1999)”Submitted Lagrange – Desktop GUI client for browsing Geminispace as a story · 1 points
HN discussionDoes gemini have any concept of feeds or pub/sub? Yes: https://geminiprotocol.net/docs/companion/subscription.gmi Many clients, including my favorite, Lagrange ( https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/ ) support feed subscriptions.
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on “Six Years of Gemini”As someone rooting for [NetSurf]( https://www.netsurf-browser.org/ ) (and any other remaining independent browser engines) to survive, I wonder if they'd be better off not supporting Javascript at all and simply focusing on good support for modern HTML and CSS, so it can at least be used to read documents. If Javascript is what finished TenFourFox, maybe attempting to support the full weight of modern Javascript and…
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on “The end of TenFourFox and what I've learned from it”Another excellent client is Lagrange: https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/
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on “Kristall – Visual cross-platform browser for gemini, http, https, gopher, finger”For anyone who may not be familiar with it, SDF is actually pretty amazing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDF_Public_Access_Unix_System Among many, many other services, you can get your own Gopher or Gemini site there. I really like the Lagrange browser, which works with both Gopher and Gemini: https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/ Another excellent Gopher resource that hasn’t been mentioned here yet: https://gopher.floo…
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on “Why Gopher in 2026?”Gemini is fine with fixed-width. See the Lagrange client: https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/
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on “Why Gopher in 2026?”> HTTP stands for Hypertext transfer protocol. The whole thing was predicated on sending HTML documents and couldn't originally send anything else. OK, HTTP/0.9 was apparently like that. By HTTP/1.0 (1996) they'd learned better, and that was the growth phase: https://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.0/spec.html > MIME is a hack to add attachments to email that was later also hacked into HTTP so you could send add "attach…
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on “The Internet Gopher from Minnesota”While it's focus is Gemini, the LaGrange Browser [1] supports Gopher too (as well as Finger and possibility FTP in the future) on almost all modern platforms. Bombadillo [2] is a great TUI gopher client as well. Setting up a Gopherhole is relatively easy, as most pubnix/tilderverse communities offer Gopher hosting for free [3]. 1. https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/ 2. https://bombadillo.colorfield.space/ 3. https://ti…
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on “Overbite Project: Why still use Gopher? What makes Gopher relevant?”Gemini ecosystem is quite active. There other smaller protocols as well, all part of the "small web" or "small internet" movement. I wrote a bit about Gemini recently[2]. If you're curious about it, you might want to give it a read. I've implemented some of them in my little toy browser Fafi[1]. If you want a browser with more features and more polish you can check Lagrange[3], it also supports Gopher and Finger bes…
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on “Surfing the Gopherspace”Check out Lagrange, it's actually a browser for Geminispace but works perfectly well for gopher: https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/
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on “Surfing the Gopherspace”The problem I've noticed is you can't get enough people to respect the minimalism. Yes you could implement Gemini in HTTP by having everyone play by the rules, but how many of the links even on HN go to pages with ads, autoplay videos, and "sign up for updates" modal popups? When I browse Gemini with Lagrange ( https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/ ) if you avoid orange links, then you're guaranteed to have a quiet, text…
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on “Gemini is a new internet protocol”what you cite as a bug feels like a refreshing feature to me. Looking at how the Lagrange [1] client interprets Gemini shows how rich and enjoyable Gemini can be, and it leaves me optimistic that we could browse it in the future on something like an ereader. The constraints that it imposes makes it so the author is encouraged to write text, not a website. This doesn't have to reproduce the entire suite of features t…
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on “Gemini is a new internet protocol”Oh wow, I hadn't heard of Spartan, but it looks like what I'm after. Gemini is interesting, but I didn't like how TLS and Unicode rules out a lot of old retro machines from being able to access it. Looks like Spartan is already supported by the excellent Lagrange [1] Gopher/Gemini browser from v1.13 onwards, so I'm happy to discover this! Thanks for sharing! [1] https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/
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on “Dillo web browser domain is for sale”Sorry I forgot the URL: https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/
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on “Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?”While promoted as a Gemini browser, LaGrange also works with gopher:// and is available on almost any platform, including mobile. 1. https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/
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on “Happy Macs Gopher Site Back Online”yeah this is 100% what gemini is[1]. for browsing geminispace, i highly recommend the lagrange browser[2]. or amfora for terminal[3]. [1] https://gemini.circumlunar.space [2] https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/ [3] https://github.com/makeworld-the-better-one/amfora
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on “We need a textodon (text-only Fediverse hub)”> [...] you can build UIs that are snappy and keyboard driven. That's not an advantage that is exclusive to TUIs; after all, you're running your TUI inside a graphical application that emulates a terminal. (Unless you're rocking an actual VT102, in which case I bow down to you.) In fact there's an entire class of applications that are extremely snappy and keyboard driven, by their very nature: games. Some people hav…
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on “Textual Web: TUIs for the Web”There is an easy way to write GUI apps that both look good and do not boil down to the lowest common denominator of 80s state-of-the-art: use something like SDL/GLFW, with an immediate mode UI toolkit on top. Lagrange ( https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/ ) is a beautiful app that (despite my ideological purism in favoring more "native" solutions) I find perfectly usable and pleasant to use.
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on “Textual Web: TUIs for the Web”Not just the web. Gemini and Gopher did an astounding reduction on proxied sites. Such as gemini://gemi.dev/cg-bin/waffle.cgi Open any linked site, or enter your own. Just try with Ars Technica. Head to the bottom, and compare the size of the converted Gemini page vs the original HTML one. As for the client, you can try Lagrange. https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/ For news over Gopher (they will work on Lagrange too)…
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on “With Hurricane Milton looming, Florida's NPR stations went text-only online”
