Hello geminauts!
I am very excited to write this first post on my fresh, new gemlog. A bit late to the party, I know. I've been meaning to set up a capsule for a while now but the list of things I've been meaning to do was (and still is) long. But apparently, the time was ripe, and I installed vger and stunnel on my server infrastructure and voila, here I am!
It sure feels refreshing to be here. A refuge from the surveillance and abuse on the world-wide web. Exploring this space will be fun, and I hope to find my place within it.
For now, though, I'm mostly discovering, stumbling upon new concepts and ways of doing things, trying to make them my own. Starting with this gemlog. Next up: aggregators. And then, who knows. Gemini Mentions perhaps? Add more content, for sure. Publish some of my fiction here, and create presences of some of the communities I'm involved in.
Technology
This capsule is hosted on a FreeBSD server. Incoming connections are handled within a jail, where an stunnel daemon terminates the SSL connection and forwards it to vger, a simplistic Gemini server that supports virtual hosting. Together with the SNI (Server Name Indication) capability of stunnel, this allows me to host multiple capsules on different domain names. For now, there is only this one, but I have plans to convert many of my web sites to capsules as well.
For the gemlog, I am using gempost, a tool that generates the post index and atom feed from gemtext files with a yaml sidecar to define metadata.