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It's bright and chilly out today, the perfect weather for a sweatpants and sweater stroll around town.
Too bad I spent the whole day indoors, stuck between the twin traps of lichess and youtube. (≈ 1000 elo)
I've been meaning to work on a larger computing project than just setting up a blog with someone else's script. Maybe today is the day I start looking into the server specs for gemini to see if I can make anything cool with it. Or maybe I just keep writing my cyberpunk quickref page. I know for sure that my writing workflow could use some help. Stock vim is great and all, but traversing a long single line with it sucks and I never feel like I can trust the spellcheck built in. Much to think about.
Yesterday I wrote about something kind of personal, and got a couple of really nice responses. It feels weird to open up like that in a public area, especially one filled with absolute strangers. But at the same time, it was kind of relaxing to just rant into the void and know that I am heard. I haven't entirely made up my mind on if I want to do that again, or if I even want to keep that post online for much longer. Telling a techy friend about gemini would be a bit awkward if I had to cover up my blog when they actually check it out. Maybe I'm being too dramatic, maybe I'm not being dramatic enough.
I wonder if there's a good way to incorporate comments into my gemlogs. My current workflow basically involes me writing up the entire .gmi file for every post I make, running gemlog.sh, and leaving the output files in a folder on my ctrl-c account. This means I can't really access the forum section of the gemini spec, but maybe an email-based system could work. I'll have to check with my server-neighbors to see what options they'd be cool with. Worst comes to worst maybe I just host the comments end on my machine and automatically move the comments over as they come.
Whatever functionality this system would have, I don't think replies are a good idea. Both from a technical and a moderation standpoint. I don't want to have political arguments in blog comments, that's what I have twitter for. If someone says something awful, annoying, or spammy, deletion would probably be the better course of action anyway.
Either way, that problem will have to be solved when I get to it.
Peace out, have a great evening
-- Noah