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Looking for a new job — I am looking for a new job. Mine has been extremely boring and unsatisfying. Looking for fully remote. Unique feats: I've built the first gemini appstore. Programming language which compiles to 8 bit brainfuck. Non unique feats: Decades of experience with all kinds of software development. We may talk about it more privately, if you are interested. Can BBS be better than linkedin? I guess it is worth a shot.
💬 8 comments · 6 likes · Apr 23 · 2 weeks ago · #gemini #job #programming
Question on sensitive input — Upon reading documentation to implement some gemini protocl apps, I've stumbled into a most fascinating status code: sensitiveInput = 11 On lagrange, it displays nice as a password input, obscuring the characters as usual. However, the character are still echoed into the request url, in the query part. So, I don't really understand. The passwords or whatever sensitive information are being exposed in the url, will be into the client history, will appear in the…
💬 10 comments · 2 likes · Apr 09 · 4 weeks ago · #gemini
The first gemini appstore — I believe this application is the first of its kind in the gemini protocol It allows to see the products, examine their details, add them to cart, checkout, create order, pay order and then download them. payment currently is being done with stripe, so you are redirect to the stripe webpage. After successfull payment, you are redirected again to the gemini protocol I believe if I incorporate something like bitcoin…
💬 4 comments · Apr 07 · 5 weeks ago · #gemini #software #store #tech
Gemini Age Survey — As this came up in another thread [gemini link] let's try a small age survey for fun to see, how old the current user group of Gemini and this BBS is. So if you know someone who uses Gemini but isn't aware of this BBS, let that person know so they can take part!
💬 24 comments · 12 likes · 2025-10-31 · 6 months ago · #age #gemini 🗳️ #survey
Unicode shenanigans — How does the gemini protocol handle unicode zero-width emoji manipulation? 😀 This emoji above contains information. Can you decode it? Does gemini preserve...
💬 9 comments · 2025-10-06 · 7 months ago · #gemini #software #tech
I am toying with the idea of creating a software store in gemini. (pay and download binaries kind of workflow) My idea is to port what I have here: to a text based experience. I think it is possible. I believe it would be the first of its kind as well.
💬 41 comments · 2025-08-27 · 8 months ago · #gemini 🗳️ #software #tech #web
A small non-functional browser — I've been coding a small 'browser' from scratch these days. The idea was to keep dependencies at minimum. So, I would use raw sockets to do everything and use raylib to render it. In the end I gave up understanding how open_ssl cryptography worked from specification and ended up just calling openssl and including it as dependency. it can handle [http link] [https link] (both on text mode) and did I say it can also display gemini capsules if given a [gemini link]...
💬 3 comments · 7 likes · 2025-06-02 · 11 months ago · #gemini 🗳️ #programming #software #web
A social experiment on getting to know people on gemini — Here's an idea, we write about something we are comming across on life/cyberspace/minds for a next 31 days. It can be anything, a single word, a single line each some blank dashes. At the end of the 31 days, we take a jab about what we think of other. The idea is to build a fun little group of 3-5 people, you know the go to cyberspace gang to chill out. You can either put your homepage here now or ping when you feel like. The only...
💬 12 comments · 2 likes · 2025-05-16 · 1 year ago · #gemini
— Originally posted on my blog
Thoughts about TOFU and gemini URLs — I thought about alternative to how to provide some semblence of trust that certificate was in fact created by authour of capsule without centralized points of authority: embedding fingerprints into gemini URLs in place of userinfo component. This way validity of certificate would be determined not by luck or by capital, but by community consensus. It seems to me that it is much...
💬 5 comments · 1 like · 2025-03-24 · 1 year ago · #gemini #TOFU #URL
Titan it! — Just for your information, I recently created yet another file share server for the Gemini protocol: [https link] Titan it! It is not actually complete because @byte has launched another service called OSIRIS. Anyway, I wanted to announce my work, as it follows slightly different goals, such as: Short addresses (based on Unix time) Guest access (without an identity certificate) Database-less, file system only Performance-oriented Later, some features should be implemented (like...
💬 1 comment · 4 likes · 2025-03-03 · 1 year ago · #gemini #rust #titan #titanit #titanite #yggverse
Is there a gemini version of github? Theres nothing wrong with github, just curious. As I was really supprised that BBS existed!
💬 2 comments · 2024-05-09 · 2 years ago · #Discussion #Gemini #Git
Introducing my grandfather to gemini! — I've had a number of conversations with my grandfather about his past as a bulletin board system admin, and you can really tell how infrequently he gets talk about it by how much his eyes light up when he gets the chance. I really love hearing his stories, but I think he might be under the impression that there's no longer any space for such things on the internet... I'm hoping today to introduce him to gemini and this bulletin board, so I can re-...
💬 3 comments · 10 likes · 2023-11-17 · 2 years ago · #gemini