New tool for making Atom feeds from Gemini posts

Today I've publishd a new tool on Github for making Atom feeds for gemlogs.

It is a reimplementation of "gemfeed" but in Rust.

I used gemfeed extensively in my personal gemlog setup: I have several gemlogs, including the notorious "Heterodox Technology" gemlog which autoposts five normally pretty darn good links every Sunday, doubtless to the fury of some Antenna subscribers.

But gemfeed runs on Python; it doesn't place severe demands on Python, but nevertheless, some combination of setup.py and Python dist_utils and Debian and Ubuntu decided that whatever way I'd been using Python for the last 20 years was always a terrible idea and no longer supported. After two or three breakages of this kind, I figured Python is just not worth the effort any more, even though after a while I did research the problem and find that the usage patterns the maintainers want to ban rightly deserve to be banned - it's just too much hassle for this kind of thing to keep happening when I have alternatives.

So now we have a little bit more Gemini software out there, albeit not of wide relevance.

(A friend is implementing a new language, Ursa, as a long-term-won't-break scripting language, but it's nowhere near ready to use for my purposes).

It looks like sheer force of habit made me publish it on Github rather than Codeberg. Whoops!

Anyway - if you see this post, it means that gemfeed2atom works!