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A place for all topics related to the Gemini protocol, e.g., applications, capsule setup/maintenance, software development, libraries/languages, and questions about the specification.
A gemtext fetcher and renderer script — Not a full-fledged browser, just for occasional aggregator/gemlog checks. Uses OSC8 terminal hyperlinks to tame the links in gemtext. [sh]
💬 View post · Sep 26 · 2 days ago
I have a question about antenna. I have a gemlog with a bunch of entries using the yyyy-mm-dd link format that i think it expects. If i submitted the index page to antenna, would it publicise _all_ of the ones it hasn't seen before, or just the most recent one? I don't want to spam everyone!
💬 1 comment · Sep 26 · 3 days ago
iOS client recommendations — Does the GeminiQuicksta.rt page properly reflect 2024's Gemini clients? Specifically, I need to be able to recommend Gemini clients for people on iOS. Is Elaho still a good recommendation (I have only an Android phone myself and am happy with Lagrange)? Also - is there a way that people can be signposted to install the right app via a QR code?
💬 10 comments · Sep 26 · 3 days ago
Any know address to contact [gemini link] for non-security issues?
💬 5 comments · Sep 23 · 5 days ago
Kore - ESP8266 Gemini server — Hi, there! I have a small project in (slow) development, named kore, after the small jovian moon. It's a Gemini server running on the ESP8266 microcontroller, featuring static content, feeds, tinylog, served from SD card or internal flash filesystem. If you like, you can see in action here: [gemini link] The source code is on GitHub. [https link]
💬 3 comments · 6 likes · Sep 10 · 3 weeks ago · #capsule #esp8266
— geminiprotocol.net: Gemini app developer's guide published
Thank you @Solderpunk for giving me the chance to contribute some official Gemini documentation in the form of a new developer guide. I look forward to hearing from @Acidus, @mbays, @gritty, @stack and all other Geminauts who have been working on interactive Gemini apps! I'm sure we can keep improving this guide further with your insights and/or comments and corrections.
💬 8 comments · 10 likes · Sep 08 · 3 weeks ago
Conspicuously important Gemini services in late 2024? — The 0.24.1 Spec update mentions Acidus's search engine and wayback machine—two important services I hadn't heard of! And I'm reasonably well informed about things Gemini. I'm curious if there are other conspicuously important/high-traffic sites I'm not aware of. I suppose a durable solution to my FOMO might be some kind of service that produces a list of likely high-traffic sites? Something like alexa.com (before it was bought and...
💬 2 comments · Sep 05 · 3 weeks ago
Search Engines in Gemini — I found out that when I search for my capsule on any of the search engines on Gemini, nothing comes up? I tried adding its url in Kennedy as well, few times, still nothing. Its weird since, the crawlers should be working just fine since I do not even have robot.txt in my main path of the capsule. Did anyone else has experienced this before? Its been more than 10 days since I launched my capsule. I hope it shows up in the search at least, just in case someone is cuious...
💬 7 comments · Sep 02 · 4 weeks ago · #capsule #search_engines
Gemini: A virtual utopia 💝 — When I first encountered Gemini, it felt like home in an instant due to following main reasons: No noise, no advertisements, no unwanted video players that follow you as you scroll User base that values writing and reading more than gaming and scrolling endlessly Quality over quantity: remember when people used to discuss editorials they read in the newspaper during breakfast when they meet at the...
💬 2 comments · 11 likes · Aug 29 · 4 weeks ago
Titan Wiki Gemini — How do I start a wiki in Gemini, with Titan? I already have a server on openBSD running a Gemini server, what would be the next step to have a wiki there? Not a ssh connection type of wiki, but a public facing titan wiki.
💬 13 comments · 1 like · Aug 06 · 8 weeks ago
0.24.0 update of Gemini Protocol is breaking a bunch of libraries and tools — The 0.24.0 update to the Gemini spec from 16.1 changes the format of the header line in a way that is breaking clients like amfora, and tools such as gemget, anything based on gemini.go, SmolNetSharp, Gemini.Net, etc. The breaking change is that, now for 4x, 5x, and 6x responses, the space between the response code and meta field is optional, and only present if there is a meta field. In other words "51" is a valid...
💬 4 comments · Jul 20 · 2 months ago
Titan implementation woes: reading early response — I'm having problems implementing the client side of the Titan protocol, and I wonder if someone here could help me. We send the URI, then the server either immediately sends a response (normally indicating an error) or waits for us to send the body data before responding. But how do we reliably receive such an early response? It seems we have to start sending, but simultaneously be ready to read a response whenever it might come. I'm pretty...
💬 4 comments · Jul 20 · 2 months ago
ko Reader gemini plugin — I saw someone writing about a Gemini plugin for Ko reader, an android app, which is an awesome tool for ebooks. Anyone knows what I'm talking about?
💬 5 comments · 1 like · Jul 15 · 2 months ago
— mediocregopher.com/posts/mediocre-caddy-plugins-gemtext.gmi
Gemtext Caddy Plugin — I developed a Caddy plugin for rendering gemtext files to HTML, which is useful for those of us wanting to serve our capsules over both protocols without introducing some middle service to do the translation. The post has more links and details, but I figured I'd drop it here in case it might be useful to anyone.
💬 2 comments · 3 likes · Jul 06 · 3 months ago
Gemini to Gopher Converter — Hello friends, I'd like to serve my capsule as a gopher hole too. However I'd like to do it automagically through software. Do you know any script or utility that does convert a capsule or GMI into text files suitable for gopher hole? Thanks... 🙏
💬 8 comments · 1 like · Jun 23 · 3 months ago
Gemtext tables & etc — I have a question: Is it an heresy to consider that the gemtext protocol would be incredibly better (like, a GIANT LEAP) with the inclusion of tables like in html2 (just the tables, i'm not mentioning anything else)? I think it would really help with the content organization in the space of the screen. The developers had said much about gemini like an evolution of gopher, and it really is at protocol level but I really can`t say much about the gemtext standart, it's...
💬 12 comments · Jun 17 · 3 months ago
TELESCOPE: External editor support now available! — Great news the latest commit of Telescope 0.9.1 introduces the feature to call an external editor to type long text message like this one! Just press CTRL+x and it will open your default editor, it should follow regular Unix settings (BSD families) as well as the common Linux settings. In distros like Devuan and Debian you can add this line on your ~/.profile dot file. [preformatted] This message has been written with Telescope + Micro...
💬 4 comments · 2 likes · Jun 11 · 4 months ago · #clients
tilde.team user ~sumpygump hosts a service called "Exploration Surprise". Each day the page features three capsules pulled at random from the catalog of known capsules at geminispace.info. Now that geminispace.info's search function is offline, its catalog is gone as well, and Exploration Surprise now shows an empty list. I enjoy Exploration Surprise and use it alongside DiscoGem to find capsules, and I'd like to inform ~sumpygump about the issue. If anyone knows of a way to contact them,...
💬 3 comments · Jun 06 · 4 months ago
How do you prefer to write your gemlogs? — How do you prefer to write your gemlogs? In the past I've done it straight on my server with nano or vi, and I've also experimented with writing everything locally and then using scp to copy thew new files over. Both seem to be equally good for my purposes as long as I have my column width set appropriately in my editor. I considered writing things and then uploading with Titan, but my current capsule software doesn't support Titan that I'm aware of...
💬 10 comments · 2 likes · Jun 05 · 4 months ago
Heads-up with GMID 2.0 — GMID removed support for "CGI", if you update and you have a CGI voice in your config this will prevent GMID to start or work. CGI script had to go, I don't want code in gmid that can be used to execute almost everything. [gemini link] 😉
💬 5 comments · 1 like · Jun 05 · 4 months ago
engineering for slow internet — this text tells details about how is it to use modern web with limited internet. gemini & geminispace would be useful, given the current bloat of the web. but it's not all, the engineering of many day-to-day tasks, like system updates, are done by the assumptions that the internet speed is high. also, it is interesting, that when the space is not densely populated, it doesn't worth to invest in that space, even if it is a cyberspace. (:
💬 12 comments · 1 like · Jun 02 · 4 months ago
Why do people not like gemini anymore? — I remember a couple years ago i heard people talking about gemini like it was an escape from the bloat of the modern web, now i see people saying that gemini doesn't solve anything and isn't even comparable with the regular web
💬 16 comments · 2 likes · Jun 01 · 4 months ago
engineering for slow internet — very interesting south pole experiences. gemini would be just fine.
💬 5 likes · Jun 01 · 4 months ago
🚀 Going full Gemini — Since I am extremely disappointed by the weird course of ActivityPub, Mastodon, Threads and BlueSky... I am seriously considering to do 30 or even 60 days challenge using exclusively Gemini for my online social activities... 🤔
💬 55 comments · 12 likes · May 22 · 4 months ago
Why choose a v3 X.509 certificate for your capsule (and your website too) — X.509 is the standard format of public key certificates which are used, among other uses, in TLS. The format has 3 versions, each one adding functionality that the previous one lacked. While the most popular library for processing these certificates, OpenSSL, supports all versions, this is starting to not be the case anymore for other libraries. In 2022, when I first heard about Gemini, I decided to write a client for...
💬 5 likes · May 14 · 5 months ago
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