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+# Personal Gemini Site
+
+My own little corner of Geminispace. A partner site to my personal website https://travisshears.com
+
+## General Gemini resources
+
+- https://bombadillo.colorfield.space/docs/
+- https://github.com/kulak/gemini
+- https://geminiprotocol.net/software/
+- https://geminiprotocol.net/
+
+## Dev
+
+Generate self-signed certificate:
+```shell
+$ openssl genrsa -out localhost_key.pem 2048
+$ openssl req -new -key localhost_key.pem -out localhost_cert.csr
+$ openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in localhost_cert.csr -signkey locslhost_key.pem -out cert.crt.pem
+```
+common name is the domain name ex 'localhost'
+
+Run server on local:
+```shell
+$ go run main.go -cert=./keys/cert.crt.pem -key=./keys/localhost_key.pem -host=localhost:8080
+```
+
+Visit it:
+```shell
+$ bombadillo gemini://localhost:8080
+```