Hello, world!
Every gemlog needs a first post. This is mine.
I love the idea of Gemini. One request, one response, text and links, and that's about it. You can read the whole spec in an afternoon and there's nowhere for the cruft to creep in.
What I don't love is where the regular web ended up. A megabyte of CSS and JavaScript to show me a basic page (heck... a megabyte. hahaa. try 10!). Browsers that are basically operating systems now, with the attack surface to match. Ads. Trackers. Cookie banners asking permission for the thing I didn't want in the first place.
The writing part bugs me too. I sit down to write something and twenty minutes later I'm fiddling with fonts and spacing and trying to make the pixel perfect callout section. The formatting quietly eats the writing. Here there isn't any formatting to fiddle with... so maybe I'll actually write.
So this is an attempt at raw Jeff. Not polished. Probably not proofread. What I'm working on, little side quests, fun ideas, things I figured out and don't want to forget. Mostly for me, if I'm honest. If you get something out of it too, even better.
As a bonus, I wrote (full disclosure, with the help of #TheRobot) the server this runs on. It's called starpulse, and building it seemed like more fun than installing something sensible. Same pages over web, gemini, and tor... and you can SSH in anonymously and browse the whole capsule from your terminal. Nobody needed that. I wanted it anyway.
Let's see where this goes.
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