The “small web” is bigger than you might think
The “small web” is bigger than you might think
https://kevinboone.me/retrocomputing.html
A lovely, human-made, blog, containing lovely images of old things. I can also recommend the social media "rant", it's soothing. There's also a beginner's guide to Bayesian statistics using horse-racing as its example. Fun.
TIL there's a smolweb theme for hugo (static site generator for websites).
I'm going to play around with it.
I don't need javascript, external fonts and eleventy cookie banners because of regulations.
Just a simple statically linked website of linked texts and pure HTML and CSS.
All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot!
It always starts the same way. The client pulls out their phone mid-meeting, navigates to a competitor's website, and holds the screen up like evidence.
"You see? They have one of those."
A little bubble. Bottom right corner. Blinking...
Read more :
https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/all-my-clients-wanted-a-carousel-now-it-s-an-ai-chatbot.md
Check up on RSS/Atom dates in dozen+ lines of Bash
16 lines of Bash to check RSS/Atom feeds; a blog post with explanationA #gopher Gophernicus server containing a pdf file will automatically attribute the 'd' or document selector, which isn't in the 1973 rfc but added later, like so many others.
Now run the Lagrange Android client: it hasn't a clue what to do with the 'd' selector. Same for ';' the video file selector.
As much as I love gopher, the absurdity of selectors is now pissing me off.