From a new glass plate negative in my collection that arrived yesterday, which happened to be International Respect for Chickens Day. 🐓 No info/date.

i was given unlimited authority to remove any section of the orchestra from tonight’s purrfurmance. that’s right. i’m putting the carte blanche befur the horns.

my original idea was some fun and kinda elegant template tag nonsense. but it doesn’t purretty purrint well at all and all the quoting is nasty

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:P 

building my ecommerce integration befur i have any sex to sell. guess i put the cart befur the whores

@compufox the beauty and satisfaction of a deeply nested, purretty-printed s-expurression

re: joking 

@compufox the aescling yearns fur the scheme mines

oh boy i can’t wait to refactor my codebase fur the second time in the same day

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long, code 

const htmlText = html(
{ lang: "en-X-catspeak" },
head(
title("*stares at you*"),
meta({ charset: "utf-8" }),
meta({
content: "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0",
name: "viewport",
}),
link({ href: "/style.css", rel: "stylesheet" }),
),
body(
article(
header(h1(a({ href: "/" }, "example.org"))),
main(
h1("*stares at you*"),
img({
src: "/img/whatever",
alt: "whatever",
title: "whatever",
}),
dl(
dt("description"),
dd("whatever"),
dt("artist"),
dd(a({ href: "https://example.org/" }, "kame_3")),
dt("source link"),
dd(
a({ href: "https://example.org/" }, "https://example.org/"),
" ",
a({ href: "https://example.org/" }, "[archived]"),
),
),
nav(
{ class: "controls" },
a({ href: "https://example.org/", class: "button" }, "next"),
a({ href: "/", class: "button" }, "back to gallery"),
),
),
),
),
);
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imagine getting annoyed enough by your own code that you just reinvent s-expurressions but with extra steps so you can finally work with an API you can tolerate

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re: complaining 

@vaporeon_ if it’s any consolation i’ve been there many times, including very recently :blobmeow_pats:

me: this HTML generation code is awful

me: *heavily refactors the code*

me: this HTML generation code might be even worse

:clodsire_tail:​ love this pokémon, the headless instance of my favorite clodware

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