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This page gives some details about this capsule, the motivation behind it, and my plans for it. It's my personal website, the first one I've had since maybe 2010 or so. Before this site, I had various static sites or instances of wordpress.
=> Hosted On: Hetzner | Orchestrated By: Coolify | Gemini Server: Agate | Web Proxy: Kineto | Managed With: Just | Content License: CC-BY-SA-4.0
At the bottom of every page, there is a "breadcrumb" link that allows you to return one page up, or directly to the homepage. The blog posts also have a "return to posts" link at the top of each post.
Content generated with:
=> gempost (blog and pages) | gemfreely (Fediverse sync)
All content for the capsule is made by:
just command runner tool.
My fork of gempost, a Gemini static site generator, builds the blog and pages posts. just invokes git to store changes to the site.
Updates to the capsule are handled by Coolify, an open source orchestration platform. When a commit is pushed to the capsule's git repository, a webhook request is sent to Coolify to update the site.
=> See this post for more information about the hosting setup.
The Web version of the site is served by an HTTP proxy that transparently converts the native Gemini site to HTML.
Additionally, all posts on the main gemlog are posted to the Fediverse via a WriteFreely instance. You can follow the blog from your Mastodon/Pleroma/etc account.
The direction I want to take this capsule, and how I want to enhance its existence:
A smattering of ideas for dynamically generated content on the capsule. Feasibility of each not necessarily investigated yet.
I became interested in the concept of "digital gardening" in the second half of 2023. I tend to use writing and journaling as a both a creative outlet and therapeutic mechanism. I experimented with a few static site generators, but the amount of effort required to get a full backlinks system going, as well as the effort needed to create and maintain the site's CSS, eventually caused me to lose interest. I became lost in the minutia of building a system around creation of content, rather than building the content itself.
Gemini's purposeful text-based protocol puts the content front and center. At the time of writing this page, I've already spent a few hours in one day focusing ONLY on the content of this site, unlike before where I spent days tweaking the appearance of my static site while adding content sporadically. The excellent gempost tool acts as a minimal static site generator for most of this capsule and its blog posts.
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