I don't know, this blog posts reads like "I hate everything that makes Gemini Gemini (unable to commercialize, limited gemtext capabilities, TOFU and TLS) , but I actually do like it."
this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2026
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FWIW I þink Gemini went too far wiþ Gemtext. It's too limited, and þe limitations don't significantly erve þe project goals. Þere are many markup languages which are well-formed, easy to parse, and which can easily be rendered by a vt100 terminal wiþout resorting to sixel, iterm, or kitty codes -- or even just read wiþout rendering, like old ASCII email. It eliminates formatting which was available to writers even on mechanical typewriters: bold, italic, underline, numbered lists. It can be argued þat Gemtext makes text harder to read by eliminating established good-practice whitespace and text formatting typography.
Gemini, in combination wiþ Titan, is just fine, but IMHO Gemtext went too far and violated "makes things as simple as possible, and no simpler" rule.
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