Co-serving a static site over Gemini

[Ash]

On 7/19/20 8:55 AM, Hannu Hartikainen wrote:
> Hi there, robot!
> 
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 at 04:10, <ext0l at riseup.net> wrote:
>> I'd like to serve it over Gemini as well. So I'm working on a project
>> <https://github.com/deifactor/exarch> to do so.
> 
> Nice project! I also have a Zola site and would like something similar
> for Gemini. I did actually implement a rudimentary non-HTML support in
> Zola itself [0] but it (understandably) feels like the maintainer
> doesn't like the direction this would take the project. I contemplated
> a Zola fork but it's quite HTML centric so not sure about that.
> 
> [0] https://github.com/getzola/zola/pull/1059
> 
> If you want my opinions I think building static files is much better
> than generating static content on request. And the big features in
> Zola that would adapt to Gemini are template support and Atom feeds.
> Still, I'm not sure if it's worthwhile to try adapting the same
> content to Gemini. I think a simpler static site generator without
> markdown might be more suited.
> 
> Now that I think about it, I should think about a Gemini specific SSG
> a bit more. I've broken stuff with my Makefile+gemfeed+md2gemini based
> weird system too many times. (Most recently I broke some Atom
> timestamps today, and I haven't yet fixed that.)
> 
> -Hannu
> 

🤖

I'd like to keep Markdown support, but mostly so I can reuse the same 
pages of actual content (the posts and everything). The templates I'm 
probably just going to ignore; my plan is that each section just 
automatically gets a link to every post it contains appended to its 
(rendered) _index.md. This is more 'Exarch's file structure is 
compatible with Zola's, so you can run Exarch on a Zola markdown 
repository' than aiming for feature parity with Zola. If I wanted that, 
I'd just tell people to use a HTTP-Gemini proxy or something.

(p.s., how come Microsoft is the only mainstream vendor that has a good 
robot emoji? Mutant Standard [0] is my favorite, which is why I used a 
variant of it as my favicon. Everything else feels too... toylike.)

[0] 
https://blog.mutant.tech/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Screenshot-2019-04-29-at-15.47.37.png