From 9bb5248dab5fafc7e999ec92667b8dba8a5cc644 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dirk Engling Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2025 03:42:39 +0100 Subject: bring the blog up to date --- blog/2015/write-the-flogging-manual.rst | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'blog/2015/write-the-flogging-manual.rst') diff --git a/blog/2015/write-the-flogging-manual.rst b/blog/2015/write-the-flogging-manual.rst index 278eb9f..f887478 100644 --- a/blog/2015/write-the-flogging-manual.rst +++ b/blog/2015/write-the-flogging-manual.rst @@ -1,7 +1,11 @@ .. date: 2015/03/15 18:00 .. title: Write the flogging manual -More than thirteen years ago I set up my personal website. Proudly aligning everything with tables, hand writing HTML with :del:`pico` vi, using "clever" apache server side includes to inherit styles from parent directories and making everything so artsy bordering unreadability. And while in the beginning writing in HTML seemed fun, in the end it became so tedious, that updating the blog came to a grinding halt (we're all not getting younger). +More than thirteen years ago I set up my personal website. Proudly aligning everything with tables, hand writing HTML with +.. raw:: html +pico + + vi, using "clever" apache server side includes to inherit styles from parent directories and making everything so artsy bordering unreadability. And while in the beginning writing in HTML seemed fun, in the end it became so tedious, that updating the blog came to a grinding halt (we're all not getting younger). So in order to be able to publish again, I needed something more seasonable, with a responsive theme and simple enough to last another thirteen years. But my site accumulated so much cruft others depended on, replacing the apache alone with something more modern seemed unfeasible. Yet, my rather static content would best be served as static files by a *simple* web server – using an insecure scripting language on top of a complex database setup was completely out of the question. I once went through the pain of setting up and maintaining a wordpress site for my dad, there's no need to repeat that agony for something I'd like to use on a daily basis. -- cgit v1.2.3