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Hi ~monpetit, and welcome to gopher/geminispace.

I've been in the Gemini community now for a number of years, participated in the mailing list for a long time, and am the author of a Gemini server (Space-Age). I don't think there is anything wrong or un-Gemini with serving dynamic content in any of your capsules. Gemini doesn't allow for any client-side programming (for many good reasons), but it does promote server-side programming for dynamic capsules in the classic CGI (Common Gateway Interface) style of late 1990s and early 2000s web programming.

I host a Gemini capsule at my workplace, which is used as my software team's internal wiki. While much of our content is simply static Gemtext files or downloadable resources (e.g., source code, config files, screenshots), our capsule does contain several pages that are dynamically rendered by server-side scripts. Using this, I've been able to create simple server status dashboards, a basic text-mode interface to Jira, and so on.

Outside of work, I check the weather using Gopher everyday, tend my Astrobotany plant in Geminispace, and of course visit the Midnight Pub in my Gemini browser.

Have fun and enjoy exploring and creating great new content on these alternative networks. I'll see you there!

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~monpetit wrote (thread):

Thank you so much!

And a Gemini server made in clojure, that's cool. I'll have to take a look at that later. I've been meaning to make a server with a version of scheme as an exercise later on, but I'm not holding my breath right now. :)