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Gemini ideas

The handwriting on many of the cards is unintelligible to you, but you can make out a few.

Bible on Gemini

Inspired by the user interface of Gemipedia, this Bible would only show the verse references as a link before each paragraph. Each paragraph then has a page that breaks out the text verse by verse and shows the translators' footnotes, cross-references, links to commentaries, etc.

Gemchat

Protocol for hosting small chat servers. IRC tends towards centralization with federated servers; this protocol would encourage independent chatrooms.

TLS required; client certificates for authentication.
Simple text-based protocol inside the TLS.
Shares port 1965 with Gemini; clients connect with an URL like gemchat://leafstorm@leafstorm.org/chatroom
Also usable for real-time machine-to-machine communication.

"Gemlike" protocol family

Gemini, Titan, and my concept for "Gemchat" all have the following commonalities:

Smol web philosophy (broadly construed).
Share port 1965.
TLS required; client certificates for authentication.
First communication from client to server is a URI.
First communication from server to client is a two-digit response code with metadata.
Plain text (UTF-8) inside the tunnel, with \r\n as the common delimiter.

Maybe other protocols could use this design architecture.

gemtrust

curl-like Gemini tool that handles trust management for you, using TOFU and/or .well-known/gemini-certs.csv.gz (see card below). Simplifies client development but will provoke inevitable reflections on trusting gemtrust.

microgmi

Hack together a TUI Gemini/Titan client out of a plugin for the micro editor. Probably needs a companion binary to manage the Gemini communication (gemtrust?). Haven't done much research on feasibility yet.

micro editor

Perez

Electron-based Gemini browser with WYSIWYG editing and Titan uploading.

leafstorm/perez on GitHub (nowhere near complete)

.well-known/gemini-certs.csv.gz

Gemini capsules that crawl the Internet anyway can publish the certificates of the sites they visit (with metadata like last crawl time and how probable it is that the cert is legit). Gemini clients can use these databases to evaluate the authenticity of their connection instead of needing a TOFU database (thus keeping metadata about all the capsules they visit). Clients could ship with pinned certificates for capsules that host these files.

Zerah

Gemini server that supports uploading content with Titan. There would be a simple built-in scripting or templating language (Jinja2 or similar) for automating content authoring and maintenance. The goal is that if you give a person a Zerah capsule, they can shape it to their desires using only "Gemini ecosystem" tools.

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