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| author | Philip Wittamore <philip@wittamore.com> | 2026-07-12 11:08:50 +0200 |
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| committer | Philip Wittamore <philip@wittamore.com> | 2026-07-12 11:08:50 +0200 |
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diff --git a/articles/2023/minimalist-blog.html b/articles/2023/minimalist-blog.html new file mode 100755 index 0000000..714e790 --- /dev/null +++ b/articles/2023/minimalist-blog.html @@ -0,0 +1,87 @@ +<!doctype html> +<html lang="EN"> + <head> + <meta charset="utf-8"> + <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> + <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css"> + <title>Bloggings</title> + </head> + <body> + <header> + <h1>Bloggings</h1> + <a href="/index.php">Back</a> + + </header> + + <main> +<article> +<h2>A Minimalist blog</h2> + <h3>23-11-2023</h3> + <h6>Updated 07-09-2025</h6> + <p> + In the past I've used several blog engines, CMS, and rolled my own solutions, but at + the end of the day, I find writing simple html is faster and easier than using a blog + engine. A blog engine or CMS makes you dependant on other softwareand may no longer exist + or be obsolete in a couple of years. Plus you usually have to hack the html and css + of these engines to get what you want anyway, which defeats their purpose. + </p> + <p> + After playing with 8 bit computers, my IT career debuted writing invoicing + applications using Multiplan on MS-DOS, so plain text has a nostalgic pull + for me. Searching for a reasonable solution, I looked at + <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)">Gopher</a> and + <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)">Gemini</a>. + </p> + <p> + Both are nice although Gopher is old and quirky and Gemini still a bit experimental, + but the fundemental problem is that they both require specific browsers, html bridges or plugins to be viewed, + limiting their use and content availability to a few initiates, and I <i>really</i> mean a few. + Lets face it, the www is the common denominator today. + </p> + <p> + Ok, you can't put the djinn back in the bottle. You can do a load of stupid stuff + with a web site, and there are billions of them out there producing carbon, wasting energy, + and displaying a marked lack of content behind a show of technological sleight of hand. + </p> + <p> + Instead, the onus is on <b>you</b> to write a universally readable web site, + not on <b>the reader</b> to posess the right browser. + </p> + <p> + Of course, you can't force people to be responsible, and major search engines + don't offer to filter out crap websites. In the mean time, I'll practice what I preach. + </p> + <p> + So here's a blog with articles that just uses simple html. + There are no Javascript, grids, or + fancy formats. Articles are plain html and can be read in a terminal text browser like + <a href="https://lynx.browser.org/">Lynx</a>, or a simple browser + graphical browser like <a href="https://dillo.org/">Dillo</a>, or a state + of the art browser like + <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/">Firefox</a>. + </p> + <p> + The only extras are the use of some basic css for browsers that can use + it, and UTF-8 character encoding rather than ASCII. Behind the scenes + there's some PHP for generating article listings and search, and a couple of + bash scripts to edit new articles and upload them. I think + this arrangement will be pretty future resistant.</p> + <p><a href="https://git.wittamore.fr/blog/about/">You can download the scripts here</a> + </p> + <p> + A Google only web is on the horizon. Let them have it. Instead let's go + back to enjoying a fast, pertinent, content-rich space where you are not + the product. + </p> + <p> + For info, I use <a href="https://librewolf.net">Librewolf</a>, + a more secure version of Firefox, and + <a href="https://sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/">Chawan</a>, + perhaps the best terminal web browser to date. + </p> + +</article> +</main> +<footer> +<p> </p><p>ยง</p></footer> +</body></html> |