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 It had some out-of-date gemtext versions of blog posts, but that’s pretty much it.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