This About page isn't as interesting as the main attraction, my blog/gemlog. Read it here:
willowf is me! I'm the sysadmin of this server, the programmer who wrote the Hackersphere Capsule Engine, and the owner of the hackersphere.space domain.
Nowhere as of September 2024. I used to be somewhat active, mostly on Station, which is a message board that anyone could join last time I checked. You can view my Station profile here:
gemini://station.martinrue.com/willowf
I created this capsule because I thought Gemini was really cool, and I wanted to make content on here instead of just passively browsing. So I sent an email to the folks at tilde.team, but they never got back to me. So I searched for a static capsule generator so I could make my own capsule. I didn't find one, but I _did_ find a Node module for building your own (plainly named `gemini-server`.)
Though `gemini-server` is cool, I found that its example configuration didn't really stand up to my ambitions. I went the extra mile and implemented a bunch of other features. The result is the Hackersphere Capsule Engine, a fully-featured, lightweight, fullstack Typescript Gemini and Web framework including:
The Hackersphere Capsule Engine can serve your capsule, too: it is licensed under BSD-2-clause, so you may use it under those terms. You can view and clone its upstream repository here:
https://git.sr.ht/~willowf/hackersphere
Maybe. You can add me on Discord, and if I think I can trust you not to post illegal or harmful content, then I may create a new user account and home directory for you, so you can login with SSH and do basically whatever. That is as long as you don't try to read sensitive data, edit other users' files, or otherwise fuck with the server. Within your home directory and its subdirectories, you can even write and execute programs if you like, as long as you abide by those rules mentioned in the preceding sentences.