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It's been well over a week since I discovered Gemini and my life has been immeasurably better for it. There's a lot about Gemini that I love but at the heart of it is one of its guiding design criteria. Simplicity.
Each day I spend in Geminispace makes this principle of simplicity shine through a different aspect. I already knew Gemini was simple when it only took me minutes to setup a server on my VPS and serve a page. This is a far cry from setting up a web service stack. However, it was when I decided to write something, which is now this post, that the beauty and simplicty of gemtext struck me.
I very recently setup a page on the web and as someone who's not using a static site generator and is editing every page by hand, I find the process sufficiently involved that I am happy to procrastinate. The first few posts for the different categories which will serve as templates for future posts require me to handle tags and styling and all of it has made me put off doing it for a couple of weeks now.
My homepage on the web: low-key.me
With gemtext, and its likeness to Markdown, I'm almost serving my raw thoughts directly. Since Markdown is how I format my notes, as long as there are no links in it I could simply drop one into my server and call it a day. That's how low friction a process gemtext makes it and that's the reason you're reading this today instead of maybe... never.
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