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Nice
Best way to edit your web site is to just use a text editor such as vi or vim
@vaporeon_ the best way to edit your web site is to write 1200 lines of bash code that generate html from markdown files using pandoc
@wallhackio At least it's not JavaScripts...
@vaporeon_ thats how my blog works 
@wallhackio IDK, to me it feels better to write a web page directly in HTML than waste my time with Markdown or whatever, but if it works for you, then it works for you
Your way might have of being easier to convert to Gopher if you ever want to put up a Gopher server...
@vaporeon_ I find HTML deeply unpleasant to write and read. I dunno it's just a me thing
@wallhackio @vaporeon_ i love HTML i just hate writing the same HTML fur every page of a site with a shared theme. i should consider trying server side includes sometime
@aescling @wallhackio OK, good point
Most of "theme" is handled by CSS on my web page, but I do have to write some things manually such as the navigation bar at the top (the one that says things like Home > Blog > My new printer) and remember to have a <DIV CLASS="MAIN"> (sorry... some old browsers were unhappy with <ARTICLE> if I remember correctly) so that the CSS actually works...
@aescling @wallhackio Sometimes I feel tempted to just remove all of the CSS, but also I do think it looks pretty, even if it's stupid and childish and no serious website looks like this
@aescling @wallhackio Removing the CSS wouldn't change anything about having to manually create the navigation bar every time, though... Maybe that "use preprocessor macros" idea I had wasn't that bad, but also it is inconvenient compared to just :w and reloading and instantly seeing your changes
@vaporeon_ what is gopher
@wallhackio It's a different protocol that's older than HTTP
I'm not sure how to explain it right now, but I enjoyed browsing it
It has a structured way of browsing directories and files, and then the files with information tend to be text-only, unlike HTML web pages
Here's a screenshot of lynx gopher://gopher.quux.org (not operated nor endorsed by me, but they do have a lot of RFCs on this web page and some information on Gopher standard, and you definitely can use it to try out what Gopher is like)
@wallhackio There are not many Gopher servers online these days, but I sure would like there to be more...
@wallhackio Is @aescling perhaps familiar with Gopher and can explain it better than me?
@vaporeon_ @wallhackio i used to serve a blog over a tor-only gopherhole. i don’t know if i even wanna know what i was posting about at that time in my life lol
@aescling @wallhackio Cool technology, but bad opinions?
@vaporeon_ @wallhackio i think most of my opinions were purrobably fine i’m just more embarrassed by the fact that i was definitely more naive at the time
@aescling @wallhackio Vaporeon fact: still stupid & naive
@vaporeon_ @wallhackio https://jort.link/http-cat.cat.family/ requires hundreds of megabytes of js at build time just so i can strip all js from the final output anyway because it works without it
@aescling @wallhackio JavaScript? Down with it
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