Announcing gemini://ecmelberk.com

[Ecmel Berk Canlıer]

Hey all!

I just wanted to let people know I am now hosting a Gemini server for
my own site.

I am currently using molly-brown as my server software, though I will
most likely fork it (or write another one myself) as I have something
specific in mind, and none of the existing software seem to be flexible
enough to do it.

For content, I am currently just converting Markdown to text/gemini (is
there any canonical name for the format?) via an ugly script, which can
be found at [1] if anyone's willing to see and use it for their own
needs.

As for my thoughts about Gemini (from someone who never used anything
but HTTP): It's really nice. The only suggestion I'd give would be to
make text/gemini have a little more flexibility in terms of formatting
(maybe like Markdown, but w/o images), but I do realise that (1) it
would be difficult to render to any TUI browser and (2) most formatting
can be accomplished via clever ASCII/ANSI art, especially if you write
it by hand and not use any scripts like I do.

Anyway, I wish Gemini succeeds, and I wish everyone a good day!

[1]: https://git.sr.ht/~admicos/ecmelberk.com/tree/master/_gemini

p.s: I also have an RSS feed at gemini://ecmelberk.com/gemini.xml if
anyone wants to subscribe to it for some reason.