Hello Gemini!

Posted Thu 27 Feb, 2021.

This is my first post on this gemlog! Exciting!

I just learnt about Gemini two weeks ago and, coincidentally, I was looking for "small" project to use a stream library with the Scala programming language. Now I have released a new Gemini server and here I am writing this. That escalated quickly!

I'm sure the world didn't need yet another Gemini server. I mean, look at this list, it is quite remarkable the number of servers available:

Server list on Awesome Gemini (GitHub)

My objective was simple: I wanted to learn something new, and I think I succeeded. Then, with a little bit of extra effort, I'm sharing the result hoping that it will be useful to someone else. If is not, that's OK!

Other than "eating your own dog food", do I really need to be in the Gemini space? Good question.

I found it all very exciting, perhaps because the rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia: it reminds me to an old friend I used to know but now our interests have changed and we don't talk that much (besides, he's a bit of a bully now; sometimes).

I've been blogging since the early 2000, when I didn't even know that what I was doing had a name. I write a couple of blogs already, although one is likely to disappear soon, and I have reduced the social media I was consuming, so I hope this gemlog will have a chance and I'll write every now and then. You never know, my first blog is now 18 years old!

What will be this about? Likely to include some Gemini-centric posts, which I think is inevitable. There's a certain community feel that I like, so I'll try to be part of it.

You can also expect posts about the Internet, Open Source, software, retro-computing, and all the culture around it. At the end, that is what I like. Not that is too important because this is a "personal log" anyway, so there should be room for anything else I find interesting.

See you around!

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