2021-12-17 My first post

I ran across Gemini on Hacker News, as I'm sure many others did. The simplicity of the protocol is appealing along with the resistance to the flashy, obnoxious stuff we run into on the web every day.

I've been lurking around a little using Elpher [1] (the Gopher/Gemini Emacs client) and enjoyed seeing the variety of people posting out here. I'm still learning my way around, but it seems like Antenna [2] is one of the easiest ways to stay up to date on stuff across Gemini.

As someone very interested in Lisp -- via Clojure, only lightly dabbling in Common Lisp -- I was excited to see a Common Lisp Gemini server and client, Germinal [3], from Jason McBrayer. This very gemlog is currently hosted via a Germinal server on a Raspberry Pi.

Even with my minimal working knowledge of Common Lisp it was easy to follow the whole codebase, both a testament to Lisp and the simplicity of the Gemini protocol.

I don't know yet what I'll post about here, but my spare time has largely been taken up in noodling on an idea for an integrated operating system and language environment similar to old Lisp Machine or Smalltalk environments. I expect I'll try to work out some of my thoughts in this gemlog and maybe if I make progress I'll provide some updates here too.

[1] Elpher

[2] Antenna

[3] Germinal