From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Mon, 29 Apr 2024, oldernow wrote:   
      
   > 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....   
   >   
   >   
      
   Modern css/html makes me sick. =( Also why I never felt any need or   
   interest in fiddling around with frontend programming. Give me a cli, and   
   something like bash, that has works for a few decades without any big   
   changes and I'm happy! =)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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