Migration of html2gmi API done
It turns out that despite receiving absolutely no feedback about it, some people are actually using my Html to Gemtext API: My previous hosting provider changed their pricing plan so it was time to move….
Author: smol
Speed up your internet by caching DNS queries for longer – nscd.conf
Every time you access a web page there will be a few dozen network requests to a few different servers. Before every network request can run there will be a connection made to a DNS…
Long Covid Meta Analysis, Jan 2023
A massive review of what we currently know about #LongCovid has been published today. Below are the highlights that jumped out at me, you can read the whole thing at nature.com. The incidence of Long…
How will the fediverse pay the bills when it is 10x bigger?
In the early days of the fediverse user numbers (aka hosting costs) were low and enthusiasm was high. Admins made their instance because they wanted to. Moderators volunteered because it felt meaningful (or whatever). We…
Generating a gemini Atom feed
The WP2Smol plugin now generates an Atom feed at /gemlog/atom.xml for purposes of updating CAPCOM, et al when new posts are made. This post serves as a test of this functionality as the feed is…
Example usage of my HTML to Gemtext API
A few months ago I made an API to do the heavy lifting for the WP2Smol WordPress plugin. The documentation I wrote at the time was pretty sparse and as development on the plugin began…
The first bugs arrive!
I knew that as soon as I started putting real content in on a live server that ‘interesting’ things would happen. Spotted so far: WordPress uses PHP but I couldn’t find any PHP-based libraries to…
Setting up a gemini capsule using the gemini-php server
If you look at the list of gemini server software, there is a wide selection! Having no better heuristic, I just chose one that is written in a language I’m comfortable with and which looked…