[ANN] gemini://caranatar.xyz and Denoscuri

[Caranatar]

Ah crap apparently none of the clients I was using to test were actually
verifying the certificate, and I forgot to change the CN when I
copy/pasted my cert generation command from my laptop. It should be
working now...

Luke Emmet writes:

> On 17-Jul-2020 08:42, Caranatar wrote:
>
>> Denoscuri, a Deno/TypeScript Gemini server:
>> https://github.com/caranatar/denoscuri
>>
>> My personal geminispace:
>> gemini://caranatar.xyz
>
> Hello Caranatar
>
> I'm getting "failed to connect to the server: hostname does not
> verify: x509: certificate is valid for celulinde, not caranatar.xyz"
>
> Does your certificate match your domain?
>
>> P.S., I know it's a little absurd to write a gemini server in a language
>> that compiles to javascript, but hey I'm job hunting and needed a
>> practice project to start learning the language. Plus I wanted to try
>> out Deno
>
> No its not absurd, JS is just another programming language with very
> widespread tooling. I think mostly the objections seem to be how using
> it for mobile code deployment is now a web browser client expectation
> so the number of client engines is dwindling to a small handful. And
> what is the real benefit - often not adding much actual value in many
> places, beyond marketing fluff and burning CPU cycles.
>
> But on the server, seems perfectly fine for me, why not build on top
> of the widespread tooling that exists?
>
> Best Wishes
>
>  - Luke


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