The post that claimed they blog with "raw HTML" was sending markdown to the front-end with a bunch of javascript for an entire markdown engine that then converted it to HTML<p>This post claims they blog with raw txt files but it's just really bare HTML with a <pre> tag for the text.<p>But browser can display .txt files. Both of these posts claim they do something that's simple to do and then don't do it.<p>Also I'm gonna call it here before it happens. The next post is gonna be "I blog with raw pdfs" and they're gonna ship a whole React SPA with some library that lets you embed a pdf display. It's probably gonna use a metaframework like Next.js for absolutely no reason. Instead of you know... just serving the f'n pdf file
I don't get:<p>"having a blog used to put constraints on my poor connection, so I removed the css and html formating for this english version."<p>What kind of constraints I wonder, bandwidth constraints or CPU constraints client side or server side,? A simple static hugo blog offers similar data reductions<p>"And one day, my server might be powerful enough to handle a successful html-powered blog, but that day hasn't come."<p>So which device isn't powerful enough to serve static html? An Arduino can, an intel 486 and a stm32 or esp32 as well. There isn't any difference in serving plain text and html server side wise
I write my blog in regular old plaintext files, I have a script that adds the header text to a file named with todays date and opens it in VIM.<p>I wrote a small script that renders the file in HTML and CSS, does code highlight and so on, but the goal is that blog-posts should look just fine in raw text, so that it is also usable on Gopher.<p>Here's how it look when it's rendered:
<a href="https://dusted.dk/pages/phlog/2024-05-23.txt" rel="nofollow">https://dusted.dk/pages/phlog/2024-05-23.txt</a><p>And you can ask for the raw version:
<a href="https://dusted.dk/pages/phlog/2024-05-23.txt?raw" rel="nofollow">https://dusted.dk/pages/phlog/2024-05-23.txt?raw</a>
The next step will be gopher and/or gemini :)<p>That is where I blog, maintenance is very easy, just edit locally and scp to the site. Or you can edit directly using tramp in GNU Emacs.
Lol. At least I don’t see runtime JS converting the font to courier new from system, but this burns my eyes to hell.<p>Edit: your post about spamming spammers made me chuckle