From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   I love the USENET has a sort of "built in time scrubbing"   
   of articles. Sure, one can bend over backward to preserve   
   articles locally, some servers have longer retention   
   periods, blah blah. But in the more minimalist usage   
   case I favor, I'm glad to see past articles/threads going   
   "over the dam".   
      
   That's in contrast to the web, where if I want to have a   
   blog / phlog / gemlog, that typically means maintaining   
   files somewhere, and possibly an index thereto. And   
   there's a tendency to fear removing older items "just in   
   case" they come in handy, "so as not to screw up others'   
   linking thereto", etc., etc.   
      
   I just plain don't like feeling at the mercy of that.   
      
   That said, yesterday I leveraged some space associated with   
   my tilde.club account (which I created to have gemtext   
   files served via the Gemini protocol) (but I mostly lost   
   interest in that space, so...) to fire up this http[s]   
   blogging space:   
      
   https://tilde.club/~oldernow/   
      
   and, of course, was immediately faced with both the   
   aforementioned discomfort, plus the discomfort of settling   
   on post formatting given we're talking html and its endless   
   possibilities.   
      
   It didn't take long to re-remember why I gave up on all   
   that in the past. I came up with a simple structure that   
   centered things in a 
 within the document mostly the   
   way I wanted, but did that via , which I came to   
   learn isn't supported in HTML5 (which probably doesn't   
   matter as I imagine browers will support HTML4 for the   
   duration of the rest of my life)... so I then messed with   
   CSS "text-align: center", but trying to figure out what   
   elements to apply that to resulted in a combination of much   
   time down the drain, and never quite seeing what    
   did for me so easily.   
      
   So I threw my inner hands in the air, and decided the   
   posts would have a single 
 for the title, and   
   enclose the rest in 
 so that I could format with   
   tools I can create instead of having to search endlessly -   
   i.e. in vain - through html/css documentation.  I mean,   
   why would I "tag" elements when I can simply format the   
   text in vim exactly the way I want it to appear?   
      
   Okay, I realize 
 leads to possible "text going   
   off screen" (unless one minimizes possibly too much for   
   text to be visible), but I can mitigate that by keepings   
   text no momre than 60 - or maybe even 50 - characters   
   wide. And those for whom that winds up sucking because   
   they're primarily phone viewers, well, in a way I'm happy   
   to exclude such morons from my audience (which, of course,   
   won't ever rise above zero *anyway*....)   
      
   I'll almost certainly abandon said effort within a   
   week, and then utterly forget about it for years until   
   accidentally stumbling upon the directory currently   
   containing the post files and couple helper scripts. But,   
   well, it's something to do in times when alt.philosophy   
   action trickles down to a slow-to-nonexistent drip....   
      
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   oldernow   
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