Hah, thanks. I do my best! Just today I was thinking of perhaps getting an e-ink tablet for handwritten notes 
Managed to steer clear, for now.
my recent entry: The web site of antiquespider
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I donāt have a blog, but I do add new pages occasionally, itās just not organized in a date-based listā¦ 
This time I added a review of three different artistās manikins. Mostly prompted by getting all three of them in a fairly short period, and laughing at how comically bad the one sold in actual art stores is compared to the other two.
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I donāt have a good answer to the post, but itās interesting to think about.
We should consider ourselves lucky to not have to worry too much about this problem. Hyperlinking is the beauty of the web.
i thought this would be WEBSITEās tech stack
So far all the people who got in touch with me said a variation of āLinking is sacred on the web, we shouldnāt worry about whatās happening on the other sideā which is probably the only reasonable way to approach this.
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Thatās on his about page.
https://lars-christian.com/about/
Projects
I am always fidgeting with one project or another. To learn something, hone my skills, or sometimes simply to pass time.
Lars-Christian.com
Description: My personal website ran on Wordpress from 2005 until 2024. I then decided to build my own static site generator in Python. This is a collection of scripts that combines content in the form of markdown files with my handwritten HTML and CSS templates to create the HTML documents that make up this website.
Stack: Sublime Text, Python, HTML, CSS
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Hereās a relatively short post. Something I keep learning at my day job (and keep forgetting).
https://new.starbreaker.org/grimoire/entries/whos-got-a-foreign-key-on-this-table/index.html
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Shared something that solved a problem for me: dealing with 88x33 buttons
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new post with an unpopular opinion
https://riri.my/blog/no-fucking-rss-not-here
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yoo i use python too
Sorry for giving you false hopes! There are two linked posts in there, where I talk about my custom static site generator and my web host. Iād say those cover the topic of my siteās tech stack in a fairly extensive manner, if youāre interested 
Both are entirely current, too!
Your Windrunner SSG sounds a bit like my approach, except that I didnāt use a LLM to generate any code or use Python. Iāve got a makefile and a bunch of shell scripts, instead. And I have a master index of my posts as a tab-separated values (TSV) file.
That, and I call it āJocastaā because it makes Oedipal websites.
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Have you thought about making a CSS class for these buttons instead of inlining the style?
Yeah, I think youāve probably forgotten more about these technical things than I could ever hope to learn. So wouldnāt dream of comparing myself to true coders.
I wish I knew enough to write the code without using the LLM. But, in a way, the code wasnāt the important part. It was all about fleshing out the mental model, so that I (or an LLM, or anyone else for that matter) could easily reproduce the functionality in whatever language and environment I might have at hand at some point in the future. As Iāve played around with a few shell scripts, I like your idea of relying on them to generate the site. Maybe a project for a later day!
Thanks, but I hope I havenāt forgotten any of it. It might come in handy someday.
Itās OK. While Iām not willing to use LLM for stuff I can do myself, what works for me wonāt necessarily work for others. And since youāre not passing off the modelās output as your own work, I donāt have a problem with it.
Exactly. And now that youāve got the code, you can go through it, learn how it works, and perhaps figure out how to improve upon it yourself if you want.
You could always try using a makefile and shell scripts for a toy site, separate from your main site. If you have questions, I might be able to answer them, and I wonāt be that UNIX graybeard who tells everybody to read the [REDACTED] manual. (Though I might link to relevant documentation for further details.)
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Iāve been MIA for a while but Iām back with a post about my journaling system. Itās quick, flexible, and captures the highs and lows of my life without all the boring stuff. Most importantly, it works for meāsustainably.
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I am only speaking for myself here, but as an RSS user, in terms of both using feed readers to subscribe to other website or blogās RSS and providing RSS feed of my own website, just because I am subscribing to a websiteās RSS feed, it does not mean I will not read it on their website, or check out their website for other purposes. In fact, it is the opposite. If I am not interested in your website, I will not even subscribe to your RSS at all. Why would I want to get notified of updates of a website or blog I do not care about?
I do find RSS feedās purpose of notifying me updates of a website or blog useful, especially as I am starting to follow more and more websites and blogs, and honestly, as a grown adult with many things I want to do, I do not have that much time to check out every single website or blog I follow just to see if they get updated. Of course, updates are not the only thing that would make me interested in visiting a website or blog, but if there is a tool that can notify me of those updates to save me at least some time for checking for updates, I will make use of it.
Also, some website or blogās RSS feed are set up in a way that only shows the title and the summary of a post or page, not the entire thing, so I still need to actually visit the website itself to read it anyway.
Not every website needs an RSS feed (especially ones that are not meant to be updated regularly), and you are free to run your websites your way, including not providing RSS if you do not want to. I just want to offer my perspective on why I disagree with your argument that RSS is not useful today.
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I use RSS as a notification system because thereās no real alternative to know when a blog has been updated without remembering to check every day, but I absolutely agree on the expectations around what websites should and shouldnāt have in this space.
We should all be allowed to do what we like according to our own preferences and if anyone has a problem with that, itās their problem!
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exactly! you got it!