Repurposing My Gemini Capsule

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Today, I decided to do what Drew DeVault and makeworld did - retire my Gemini capsule.

Well, not quite retire, but pretty close.

As you might know, I have a Gemini capsule on flounder. I have it for as long as this blog, but all this time I wasn’t sure how to use it. I could keep a gemtext version of all my posts there, but that’s a lot of work, and it’s not really worth it, as you can browse my website using w3m perfectly well.

It’s simply been collecting dust. It had some out-of-date gemtext versions of blog posts, but that’s pretty much it.

When I got my domain I remembered about it and decided to try resurrecting it.

On the 10th of July, I finally sat down, setup custom domain for it (gmi.daudix.one, how original…) converted all posts to gemtext using gemgen by manually cd’ing in every post folder, running gemgen index.md, renaming the file to <directory name>.gmi, Alt + ← to go back to previous directory, and repeating this for all posts.

After 2 hours of fixing broken links, images, videos, tables and weird text after stripping away all the sweet formatting, I was left with a very bland version of a rich text blog…

I’ve been thinking that day. What should I do with it?
Should I delete my flounder account?
Should I move to a different hosting?
Should I simply keep it as is and write about something more interesting than tinkering with a dead capsule made with an obscure piece of tech?

I wasn’t sure, so I kept this spinning in my head for a few days.

Today I have finally decided: I’ll keep the capsule, but will get rid of all the gemtext versions of this blog’s posts (that took me 2 hours to convert), and will use it to jot down some notes and quick thoughts that don’t fit here, and, most importantly, it’s easier to edit a file through flounder’s web interface than to:

• Open file manager.
• Navigate to the website source folder.
• Create a new post folder with a date -I timestamp.
• Inside it, create an index.md file.
• Fill in the front matter.
• Type the actual note.
• Open terminal.
• git add said note, commit, and push.
• Wait for the CI to complete.