I've had some psychological issues with my website for quite some time. That lead me to rebuild my website
writing my own templates from scratch, and to implement
so visitors can choose whether to run JS or not.
Still, after all that work that had nothing to do with content, I still had one content-based issue. The web is everywhere, everyone is on the web, and content on the web is forever. I'd often like to just write and not worry about a thing. But on the web I *know* someone can find my words years from now, and that may have unexpected effects on me.
It's not that I won't stand behind my words. But just exposing everything to everyone is not smart these days. My website is my public image, and it needs to be polished. A place where I'm free to write to people without an expectation of perfection was what I needed.
And then I stumbled upon Gemini on Hacker News.
I didn't click the link at that time. Later I was thinking about my wishlist project to expand my website over different mediums and started investigating Gopher (which I'd never used before). I remembered there was this new gopher-like thing, looked it up, installed a browser and was *very impressed*.
The next day I wrote a front page for my Gemini space and experimented with serving it.
I decided not to go public before I could serve Gemini on my root domain, which took a couple of days and some gnashing of teeth because I'm a perfectionist... :(
Anyway, here I am, with a streamlined server setup and some initial content. And looking forward to post more.