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Hello there!

My old blog has been dormant for a few years now, so naturally I thought I'd start a new one! This time on gemini. Hopefully, I can maintain an interest in actually writing stuff for it.

How I learned about gemini

Let's see if I can reconstruct the trail that led me to gemini, and keep it here for posterity.

I was a little annoyed with my window manager (StumpWM) because it didn't allow me to change the fonts the way I liked.
I thought maybe it would be fun to write my own window manager.
Then I thought, maybe I should write a Wayland compositor instead.
I thought maybe I'll try writing it in Go, since I'm just learning it.
I found a project named "Go Wayland McWayface" which was an attempt at writing a Wayland compositor in Go.
I realized this is a Go version of a project from Drew DeVault's blog.
I started reading Drew DeVault's blog posts.
The series on Wayland McWayface didn't continue far, but I started reading other posts on the blog.
When reading the blog, I learned about sourcehut.
On sourcehut's website, there was a section for browsing projects and it had a text saying:

"Small internet" protocols? The Plan 9 renaissance? Esoteric programming languages for music creation, and novel smartphone operating systems? These projects and more are waiting to be found on the sourcehut project index.

I was like, what's "small internet". I googled it, and I finally found out about gemini.

Funny how one thing leads to another. Also, I must admit the web's haphazard nature of linking things together had something to do with it! Ironic!

What I'm going to write about?

I'm writing this section to keep a random collection of my current ideas. Maybe I'll actually write about some of them. We'll see.

My programming projects
Gemini itself, as I learn about it.
Maybe some fun gemini capsules/projects I learn about.
Books I read.
Games I play.
Whatever else that can keep my attention long enough to write a page or two about.

Comments?

Guess we gotta do it the old-fashioned way. If you want to contact me you can email me at mostafa@sepent.com.