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I just got this Gemini server running from my own server about 2 days ago. I think about my plans for it... I love how simple Gemini is. It does essentially everything I'd ever want out of a web page, but is so much easier to grasp. I have an interest in internet tech on a hobby level, and the simplicity of Gemini might finally convince me to get a bit more into programming. I'd love to take this site and code a tool of my own to automatically convert from Gemtext to HTML. I know it's been done before, but I have specific desires for the tool, and it also seems like the sort of project that is possibly simple enough to be a good on-ramp to some programming.
Beyond coding my own gemtext to HTML converter, I think the skills I'd pick up there might be good for getting me to doing things with RSS, JSON, possibly h-feed. I have an interest in the Indieweb as well, the Fediverse, all of these ideas to maintain independence from centralized tech companies. This weekend has been a bit of a bust, as far as my social life goes, so a good time to dive into some of this.