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Kennedy, the search engine I’ve been building
Building a Gemini Search engine
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Why Gemini is interesting
I’m excited by Gemini because the ecosystem is young and there are so many new things to create. The constraints are really appealing to me:
- using client side certificates as sessions that a user ops-in is really cool. I’d like to see Gemini browsers do a better job of allowing you to generate client-side certificates on the fly
- lack of caching is actually a feature! I update my index.gmi and it updates as soon as I go back to my Gemini Browser
- 1024 bytes of input is enough to do really cool things. You could encode state into a Gemini URL. Text adventure games could easily store inventory and even the initial seed value for a random number generator
- It looks like content is the biggest challenge Gemini spaces facing right now. But feels like there’s some really cool ways to bootstrap content: project Gutenberg texts could be converted into GPUB files.
- lots of fun tools to make (easier converters to gemtext, wget but for making capsule archives, etc)
- these tools can be small enough and simple enough to use ab experiment to learn new languages
Testing pages
Links to other peoples pages about ways to use the text
a test page that should be ignored by crawlers