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Hi there! I'm Serge, software developer and designer expat from Ukraine, currently living in Tallinn, capital of Estonia.
serge@tymo.name
Memorabilia, an Interactive Collecting Facility
I was looking for a medium to write down a lot of stuff out of my head for a long time. Social media do not fit for many reasons, and I'm on a way to minimize my presence there. Each attempt to establish some writing habit on top of my own website[3] led to bogging down into tackling with some blogging software, or, in case of static HTML files, styling and typographing content to fit well to plethora of browsers and screen sizes.
I'm an avid reader of xkp's[4] "Tales From The Dork Web" newsletter(5). Among other beautiful discoveries, it very gently opened for me the door to the "smol web", a diverse set of alternatives to traditional web. None of them resonated with me enough to try, but introduction[6] to Gopher and Gemini did.
"Gopher, Gemini and The Smol Internet" issue
I picked Gemini mostly because of perfect point of application of restrictions -- the protocol level. It limits author expression capabilities to small subset of Markdown and leaves presentational decisions to reader's client software. That's the perfect balance. It immediately created an itch to develop client and server, and this is a good sign.