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Re: I Blog with Raw HTML

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Post by Corrado »

inopinatus wrote: post #81
rerdavies wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Real programmers use octal not hex.

What can I say, I modernised. It feels like an age since I last toggled in a bootloader through a front panel. I'm also anticipating a bit of snark (pun intended) from the folks still twiddling data on their magnetic drums using an iron needle. It's all in good humour though, we continue to get along because I didn't switch to SVR4.

I know you’re being facetious, but there was a time that I did toggle a boot loader in with switches on the front of a mini computer. Now I feel super old.

Re: I Blog with Raw HTML

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Post by ttepasse »

inopinatus wrote: post #73

This is novice stuff. I write my blog by modifying the filesystem's binary structure by hand with a hex editor. There is no Javascript or CSS whatsoever and the document uses only elements, attributes, and behaviours that were both described in the original HTML v1.1 DTD and that have continued to appear in every intervening IETF, W3C, and WHATWG issuance since then. Many of the elements are therefore deprecated and…

Too hackerish.

Real professional software developers only use the subset of HTML which ISO standardised in 2000 as ISO/IEC 15445:2000 with additional validating constraints. Published via SOAP ands WS-*.

Re: I Blog with Raw HTML

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Post by ttepasse »

rssoconnor wrote: post #116

I literally blog with raw SGML. Each post comes with a handful per post ENTITYs for that post's common abbreviations and links. Unlike inopinatus's comment, I do keep up with "modern" standards, which is why my posts conform to the "ISO/IEC 15445:2000//DTD HyperText Markup Language//EN" doctype, the latest HTML standard approved by the ISO. Blog content is assembled via various SGML entities includes into a prehtml f…

You know, I am so happy that one other person on earth knows this HTML dialect.

Re: I Blog with Raw HTML

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Post by inopinatus »

Corrado wrote: post #121
inopinatus wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What can I say, I modernised. It feels like an age since I last toggled in a bootloader through a front panel. I'm also anticipating a bit of snark (pun intended) from the folks still twiddling data on their magnetic drums using an iron needle. It's all in good humour though, we continue to get along because I didn't switch to SVR4.

I know you’re being facetious, but there was a time that I did toggle a boot loader in with switches on the front of a mini computer. Now I feel super old.

You’re not alone. I too am ancient enough to have done the same. PDP-8 at my hometown university computing centre. At least half my original comment held a grain of truth, as a matter of fact. Including the dd/sh HTTP server (hi Claudio!)

Re: I Blog with Raw HTML

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Post by lylejantzi3rd »

jasonkester wrote: post #120
AlienRobot wrote: post #118

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I don't know what kind of competition this is, but I'm waiting for someone to say they blog in XML with XSLT.

As requested: http://www.blogabond.com/xsl/vistacular.xml The upside is that the entire html page is content. I defy google to not figure out what to index here: view-source: http://www.blogabond.com/xsl/vistacular.xml The downside is everything else about the experience.

This is blowing my mind. That's really cool.

Re: I Blog with Raw HTML

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Post by ddulaney »

malfist wrote: post #58
ddulaney wrote: post #19

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See also this review/critique from the cURL author, especially if you’re going to implement it yourself. Particularly around certificate handling and URL parsing, there’s a lot of underacknowleded complexity in Gemini. https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/05/28/the-gemini-protocol-s...

That's a really well written post. Thank you for sharing it, really makes you think about all the thought that has went into http and how important Chesterton's fence is

Yeah but also all of the legacy baggage that it comes with, y’know?

Like the URL parsing stuff for example. The issue is that they pull in one of these enormous old RFC’s and also say “but UTF-8” without any more explanation.

A better URL might be a good thing — scope it down to what’s in common use, design it tightly for your needs, etc. But if you’re gonna do that, do it! Rather than just pulling in an RFC with decades of baggage and then modifying it ad-hoc.

Re: I Blog with Raw HTML

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Post by Jerrrry »

mediumsmart wrote: post #34

Blogging in raw html means you fire up emacs, tramp to the blogs index.html find the last closing p tag and underneath put the post headline and timestamp and an opening p tag on the next line and you are off to the races. Of course opening the index in tramp, putting the heading, timestamp and p tag goes into a function or paused kbd-macro so it fits into Mx blogthis

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Re: I Blog with Raw HTML

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Post by ssttoo »

culi wrote: post #83

This is not a Raw HTML blog. You're sending markdown to the browser and then a bunch of javascript to convert that mark down into HTML...

Ha! I just did exactly this as a joke [1]. Even using the default Apache’s directory listing page to give me the list of articles

[1] https://lizzy.js.org

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