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First post

This is it. This is my first official gemlog post!

I am ~desertmouse o/ , a computer nerd who likes low-level programming (microcontrollers, that sort of stuff) along with (obviously) a plethora of other things. Some of them are:

Reading and writing poetry
Science fiction (my favorite is Dune if you didn't guess from my username)
much, much more...

For the past few days, I have been working on a gemlog management program. You came here through "posts.gmi" - well, I don't manage all those subheadings (latest, recent, older). The program does all that for me. I can edit, post, delete, right from the one command.

I have figured out most of the little kinks and I think it is ready for my personal use. I was trying to find a balance between automation and control, so it lacks some things like tags (thinking about a simple way to do that currently). I think it only lacks tags for now.

I don't want to add automatic adding of date and time because.... I don't know about time, but I think I will add dates later on. Shouldn't be much difficult to do.

I plan to post about my projects on this gemlog, and this is one of them. Apparently there aren't publicly available gemlog-only blog managers, so people might actually find this tool useful!

But I am not developing it for people. I am developing it to be perfect for my own use.

And that is why I went ahead and started writing this post. It works pretty well, and there shouldn't be any problems for me personally, not until I accumulate, like a year's worth of posts (<= 50 probably for my case (I expect)). I just though that when that happens, I would simply copy all those posts along with their archive.gmi file (autogenerated by the program) into a directory 2022/ , and it would from then on, chill inside the postdir/ , visible to anyone who wants to view older posts.

Now, I am **very** much a newbie, but I try and hack things together to make life easier \o/.

(below, a concept of what tags would look like - space separated, and restricted only to a post's last line for easy searchability)

tags: firstpost