{"slug": "gemini-links-11-09-2026-small-things-and-hitching-your-wagon", "title": "Gemini Links 11/09/2026: Small Things and \"Hitching Your Wagon\"", "summary": "Seeed Studio launched an official TinyGo starter kit built around its XIAO ESP32-C3 development board, created in partnership with the TinyGo project, according to Seeed's Kezang Loday. The kit includes 11 Grove modules, a Grove Base for XIAO, and a full set of tutorials for learning embedded Go, following TinyGo v0.41's native wireless support for the XIAO ESP32-C3 and XIAO ESP32-S3 earlier this year.", "body_md": "# Gemini Links 11/09/2026: Small Things and \"Hitching Your Wagon\"\n\n- \n### Gemini* and Gopher\n  - \n### Technology and Free Software\n    - \n[Seeed Studio Partners with TinyGo to Design, Launch a Starter Kit Built Around the XIAO ESP32C3](gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202609/20260911-tinygo.gmi)Seeed Studio has launched an official starter kit for those looking to experiment with the Go programming language on microcontrollers, created in partnership with the TinyGo project — and built around the company's XIAO ESP32C3 thumbnail-sized development board. \"Earlier this year, TinyGo v0.41 brought native wireless support to Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32-C3 and XIAO ESP32-S3, making it possible to write Wi-Fi-enabled applications in Go and flash them directly to the boards,\" explains Seeed's Kezang Loday. \"However, having board support is one thing. Knowing what to build next is another. Today, we're excited to introduce the TinyGo Starter Kit with Seeed Studio XIAO — an official TinyGo starter kit built around the XIAO ESP32-C3, a carefully selected set of 11 Grove modules, alongside a Grove Base for XIAO, and a complete set of tutorials for learning embedded Go by actually building things.\"\n    - \n[Called to something smaller](gemini://kunulo.smol.pub/2026-09-11-something-smaller)I’ve been thinking quite a lot lately about the appeal of things that are smaller. Not necessarily simpler in every sense. Just smaller. A smaller computer, doing fewer things. A smaller corner of the internet, where a handful of people write things because they want to write them, rather than because they are feeding an algorithm. A plain text file instead of an app. A Gemini capsule instead of a WordPress blog. A phlog that may be read by six people and is none the worse for that.\n    - \n[MikroTik RouterOS and DDNS](gemini://lasse.nerdcamp.net/gemlog/20260911.gmi)So I got myself a new Router, because my old FRITZ!Box started to act up. And because AVM got sold and is now most probably on the way down anyway. Time will tell, but it's always good to have alternatives. Those alternatives seem to be few and far between though. I couldn't find anything that appealed to me, not even for a thousand bucks. So I chose a MikroTik, having hopes that its RouterOS would be somewhat easier to manage and set up than things like OpenWRT. That turned out not to be the case :(.\n    - \n[Hitching Your Wagon](gemini://lab6.com/mlog/2026/09/11/wagon/)You've been a lifelong beneficiary of free and open source software, so you decide it's time to give something back. You have an idea for a little application you'd like to create, and you've been tech-adjacent for long enough that you feel it should be well within your capabilities to make a positive contribution. How does one create an application in 2026? You begin to survey your options. You want people to use your software, so you'd like it to be cross-platform. Linux, macOS and Windows support sounds tricky, but lots of apps seem to manage it, and surely this is now a solved problem? You discover Electron. It's widely used. It's good enough for major applications like Microsoft Teams, Slack, Visual Studio Code, Discord, and Joplin, and its internals come from Google's Chromium project, so that's good institutional backing. Under the covers, you write an Electron app using web technologies like HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and if the web is eating the world, you wonder if it might be OK just to go with the flow.\n  - \n- \n\n<sup>*</sup> [Gemini (Primer)](/gemini) links can be opened using [Gemini software](https://geminiprotocol.net/software/). It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.\n\n**Image source**:  [Ducks in winter water](https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=10899&picture=ducks-in-winter-water)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-links-11-09-2026-small-things-and-hitching-your-wagon", "canonical_source": "https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/11/Gemini_Links_11_09_2026_Small_Things_and_Hitching_Your_Wagon.shtml", "published_at": "2026-09-11 19:59:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-11 20:52:21.092859+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools"], "entities": ["Seeed Studio", "TinyGo", "XIAO ESP32-C3", "Kezang Loday", "XIAO ESP32-S3", "Grove"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-links-11-09-2026-small-things-and-hitching-your-wagon", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-links-11-09-2026-small-things-and-hitching-your-wagon.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-links-11-09-2026-small-things-and-hitching-your-wagon.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/gemini-links-11-09-2026-small-things-and-hitching-your-wagon.jsonld"}}