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Alex Schroeder
alexschroeder.ch · Personal blog · on HN since 2014
Alex Schroeder writes a personal wiki-style blog on Emacs, Perl, Gopher and Gemini, self-hosting, and small-web software.
What HN saysHN links it in threads about Gemini, Gopher, Emacs, and personal websites, and commenters mention his software and his page on blocked visitors.
15HN people shared it
6linked it in comments
21stories submitted
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Most-shared posts
- 1How do you process the news?1 people · 56 points · first shared 2025 · 64 comments on HN
- 2Why EmacsWiki is slow (and a plea for Perl/mod_perl help)1 people · 14 points · first shared 2014 · 10 comments on HN
- 3Replacing Keybase1 people · 4 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 4ed is the Standard1 people · 3 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 5Encrypted Gopher1 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 6Disk Space1 people · 2 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 7Locking the Gate1 people · 2 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 8Ban Autonomous Systems1 people · 2 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 9Record Keeping1 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 10SSH App Bots1 people · 2 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 11Using a JSON feed for self-published indexes1 people · 2 points · first shared 2024 · 1 comments on HN
- 12Talking about Cancer on Facebook1 people · 2 points · first shared 2021 · 1 comments on HN
- 13On Creating vs. Consuming1 people · 1 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 14A summary of my bot defence systems1 people · 1 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 15Simple Sabotage of Agents1 people · 1 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
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8organicbits · 2026-01-31
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/blocked
> What if you’re blocked from my sites?
> Or more likely: What if you’ve heard somebody say they’ve been blocked from my sites? If you’ve been blocked, you can’t read this, obviously.
> Here’s what you can tell them:
> “I’m sorry this is happening to you. Your ISP is probably renting out bandwidth and computing power to web scrapers with distributed IP addresses so I have no other option but block all their networks. A regular ban lasts for 1h. Repeated offenders are banned for a week. If the web scraping continues, so does the banning. You are probably an innocent victim of this arms race. If you have a static IP address, contact me and I can add you to an allow list.”
> For a longer explanation, see 2025-07-19 The current setup defending my sites.
donio · 2023-08-08
For Emacs users elpher.el is a good option. There are also some additional packages to help with authoring .gmi files either locally or over Titan.
https://thelambdalab.xyz/elpher/
https://git.carcosa.net/jmcbray/gemini.el
https://alexschroeder.ch/cgit/gemini-write/tree/README.md
You can find these in MELPA too.
amatecha · 2022-01-20
So many people make websites that basically look like they are from the 90's (though without all the animated GIFs haha), and use basic features without any strictly-modern stuff. These are just a few off the top of my head:
https://cblgh.org/
https://technomancy.us/list
https://alexschroeder.ch/
http://100r.co/site/about_us.html
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/
https://rgz.ee/
https://www.bsdly.net/~peter/
https://codevoid.de/
https://www.undeadly.org
https://compudanzas.net/
http://altexxanet.org/
http://sdf.org/
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/
Kye · 2019-10-04
It does have a Minimum Viable Product feel.
https://alexschroeder.ch/software/Trunk
As far as custom issue trackers go, this one isn't too bad. You could suggest an improvement. If you know perl, you could even write your own extension to provide this functionality.
codezero · 2018-04-11
Gopher basically died once the web arrived, https came after that.
I did find this neat post though about using an encrypted data type for gopher data: https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2018-01-10_Encrypted_Gopher
kensanata · 2014-12-23
Nic Ferrier has set up a cache for me. If all goes well, we should see results in a few hours.
More info here:
https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2014-12-23_Emacs_Wiki_Migration