The gemini web and this blog

As many of you already know this site is also available on the Gemini Web, not Google's Gemini. This is somewhat new and I stil need to do some ajustments, as converting from HTML to gmi markdown is not perfect. In fact many things in my setup are not perfect.

First, my gemini server can only have one domain per machine, so that means only my blog is available now. My current workflow is to create the HTML content and then use html2gmi to create the corresponding .gmi file, regenerate the feed and then upload everything to my raspberry pi using scp. The issue here is the conversion, as posts are written with HTML in mind, the html2gmi tool has its own style that doesn't fit mine well. Lastly, my rss feed generator can't extract info from gmi files and thus only the link is shown.

Next steps are tweaking my publications, the rss generator and the conversion tool to create better .gmi files, ideally this should change links to .html files to the respective .gmi file, and add metadata to posts somehow, since there is no metadata support in the gemini markup spec.

I plan to improve support for gemini web on this site and on the tools that I use, I hope this will incentivise folks to use this new and incredible publication platform. If you want to keep track of this developments here are some links:

Thanks!