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Hi, all. I am testing out self-hosting a gemini server. It's probably overkill, but to start I went with:
It was sitch to setup and I figured before I dive head first into making my own server this might be the simplest start.
I am not the most anonymous person on the net, but I try to keep things private to a fault. I'm a software engineer (surprise) who like messing around in home server stuff. I mostly write about projects I work on, but sometimes I end up with other random stuff out there.
I had been interested in gemini for a while and took the plunge. I plan on mirroring my webpage here, which already focused on being a very frugal website. No javascript, basic html5 and css features, simple! However, I am currently writing _all_ of that in html, which for me is actually enjoyable, isn't condusive to easy writing. I intend to move to markdown and use python-markdown or some similar tool to compile my entries into their html files. Having writing this and some test pages, I do enjoy the very direct nature of gemtext as a markup language. But even Markdown can be tedious at times. For html, removing the _strengths_ of the language for ease of writing is something I don't enjoy personally: alt-text anchors dynamic styling for the sake of emphasis. But that is on the GUI of the WWW which this is not. So I have a feeling I'll enjoy the minimalist nature of gemini.
I intend to mirror my website, as I said above, but also just make more frequent small gemlogs and other quick bits. Connecting with folks who come across my space, really anything.
Before I post this unproofed quick hello-world document, with my server exposing 1965 to the internet, fingers crossed, I want to just say hi. And thank you for reading. I am slightly skeptical of _just how minimal_ this space is. I enjoy the unix-y nature of "if you want to comment on something someone wrote: email them" but at the same time, cataloging all of the interaction in a singular space with the power to do so _is really the logical progression_ of internet-interaction. So we will see. Maybe there is an IRC I can lurk on too.
P.S I promise to be less ramble-y in later posts.
If you have anything useful or need to let me know I am leaking all my data to the internet you can reach me via email at admin (at) senders.io