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In my university I'm taking a web development class for filler credit hours, learning the basics of HTML, CSS, and JS. I've been wary of JS since I started investing time into increasing my online privacy from all the Big Bad Evil Things that lurk the web, but now I find it funny that I'm learning all this information and applying absolutely none of it to a gemini server. Perhaps someday I'll make a JS-free webpage on port 443 to show something, but that time is not today. The class is teaching me to appreciate the simplicity of the gemini protocol. Even though it's heavily limited on features, search engines and wordle clones still exist. I thoroughly enjoy seeing what people can come up with when presented roadblocks, as opposed to the web where there's redundant features for every possible thing ever, and websites take forever to load a four-function calculator with extra ads on top. It's almost like the early NASA days where they had to figure out how to perform a spacewalk with a tin can in an environmen that will kill them at any moment.
Perhaps over the summer when I have the mythical "free time" that some of my peers whisper about, I'll figure out how to make some cool thing for Gemini. For now, I'm back on the homework grind.
Until next time,
w1ntermute