smolweb - Gemini
Date:
[30th Jul 2025]
This server is for a quite of time also a gemini capsule and reachable via gemini://thafaker.crabdance.com - because I like the idea of the simple protocol and the small web, the indie web.
Screenshot of Terminal based Gemini Client amfora, visitung my capsule
Nowadays, hardware resources of our personal devices are essentially oversized to manage bloated websites. If we incite web designers to return to a lighter web, small devices such as old PC, old smartphones, retro-machines and small boards could be usable.
This is the goal of the smolweb concept.
But what is a bloated website? Two aspects are critical: the size of the code and linked resources downloaded by the browser, and the computing effort to do the layouting by transforming it into absolutely positioned boxes with text and images. Reducing both can make a website “smol”
Gemini
Gemini is a new internet technology supporting an electronic library of interconnected text documents. That's not a new idea, but it's not old fashioned either. It's timeless, and deserves tools which treat it as a first class concept, not a vestigial corner case. Gemini isn't about innovation or disruption, it's about providing some respite for those who feel the internet has been disrupted enough already. We're not out to change the world or destroy other technologies. We are out to build a lightweight online space where documents are just documents, in the interests of every reader's privacy, attention and bandwidth.
