gemlog.blue reply roundup!
Welcome to the Smol Internet, friendo!
Sounds like your journey and eventual dissatisfaction with the www closely mirrors my own. I think I taught myself HTML on geocities around 98 - 99. Yadda yadda. Hope you enjoy your stay.
Re: After a long time! (life update)
Super excited to hear more about your adventures in C and Lisp! Two very fun languages.
I started trying to learn more about both at one point with Build Your Own Lisp [1], which is kind of a novel exercise in learning C by building a Lisp. Best of both worlds?
Re: you never forget your first one
The kind of time travel you're describing is one of my favorite things about the reader/writer relationship.
I'm reading the perennial and evergreen How To Read A Book by Mortimer Adler [1]. He spends a lot of time talking about the cooperative effort between the writer and the reader to create understanding from the text that they share across time and space. The writer tries his best and hopes it is enough, and sends his words out into the void. And then it is up to the reader to assess those words, perhaps in contexts the writer could never have anticipated. And perhaps creating understanding the writer never intended.
Anyway, thanks for including me in your time travel escapades.
Hi, welcome to Gemini!
It seems like there's no support for italics and bold text. I wonder why...
I think the big idea was to avoid any kind of inline markup to make parsing and displaying the content as simple and fast as humanly possible for clients.
How do you discover new content on Gemini?
You discovered CAPCOM. Spacewalk[1] is another aggregator. And there are search engines too, the most popular of which seems to be GUS[2].
Finally there are non-gemini places to talk about and share content like irc (#gemini on https://tilde.chat/) and the mailing list (gemini@lists.orbitalfox.eu)
There are definitely people out there who have done some impressive server side scripting using cgi scripts. For example, check out sloum's othello[1]. I don't know much about this stuff, but a quick GUS search for "cgi how to" turns up a couple resources.
If you decide to reply, send me a link to your response so I don't miss it!
dozens@tilde.team
@dozens@tiny.tilde.website