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2022-01-20 - Updates to this site. Now HTTP too!

Hello, fellow Geminauts! I finally made some long-postponed update to this capsule, I'm really delighted I finally managed it all!

HTTP version of this capsule

My homepage is now available not only in Gemini, but via big Internet too.

[HTTP] Here's the link.

This was a challenge of generating two sites statically from a single source. I could've done it a lot better, but I decided to cut a lot of initially planned functionality.

Could it be that I wanted too much?

I initially wanted to do a simple GMI to HTML translator. Since my site is on tilde.team, and the server code is out of my reach, I decided to go the static way. After all, that's what Gemini is mostly about!

Then I thought - it would be cool, for example, to mark some things as HTTP-only or Gemini-only, to provide framework for more specific fine-tuning...

And then I realized that I made a monster machine of a custom macro-language, with no end in sight and with no clue of how to make it any stable.

I scraped it all and returned to my simple gmi->html translator (I am aware a lot of them exist already, I've seen recent posts on Antenna, but I started doing mine before I saw them ;) )

One and only custom thing I included is the "=>" tag for inline images. For Gemini, it translates into simple =>. For HTTP, it renders an <img> tag.

Mind you, I don't advocate for inclusion of inline images to Gemini! The protocol is fine as it is.

I welcome any feedback, or if something doesn't work or looks weird. Hope you are all having a good day!

I'll now go update the rest of my site.