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My capsule has moved!

=> Gemi Mission Control

Kennedy, the search engine I’ve been building

=> 🔭 Kennedy Search

=> Building a Gemini Search engine

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Why Gemini is interesting

I’m excited by Gemini because the ecosystem is young and there are so many new things to create. The constraints are really appealing to me:

• using client side certificates as sessions that a user ops-in is really cool. I’d like to see Gemini browsers do a better job of allowing you to generate client-side certificates on the fly
• lack of caching is actually a feature! I update my index.gmi and it updates as soon as I go back to my Gemini Browser
• 1024 bytes of input is enough to do really cool things. You could encode state into a Gemini URL. Text adventure games could easily store inventory and even the initial seed value for a random number generator
• It looks like content is the biggest challenge Gemini spaces facing right now. But feels like there’s some really cool ways to bootstrap content: project Gutenberg texts could be converted into GPUB files.
• lots of fun tools to make (easier converters to gemtext, wget but for making capsule archives, etc)
• these tools can be small enough and simple enough to use ab experiment to learn new languages

Testing pages

=> emoji.gmi
=> Links to other peoples pages about ways to use the text
=> a test page that should be ignored by crawlers