Bringing Static Websites Back
+25/01/2025
++ Look I'm hardly the first to do this but I think we all know the + internet is shit now. Like. Really, really shit. It would be + naive to say that the internet was perfect in its early days. + But it was definitely less centralised, with many people + maintaining their own pages, using webrings to link to people + they like. It was collaborative and communicative and a platform + of passions. +
++ Then for a while everyone was in the same place, although that + place changed every like. year or so. I never really used + MySpace or Bebo, but I got on Twitter really early and gave + myself lifelong Poster's Sickness. +
++ Obviously Twitter is absolute shite now and has been for a fair + while. I moved to bluesky, and that's ok, but every so often I + want to write longer Things. Usually about movies or games, + sometimes about programming stuff since that is... my job. +
++ I used backloggd for games for a bit but the culture on that + site fucking annoyed me, and I don't think letterboxd is likely + to be any better. So instead I can make my own website without a + comment website. Then if you want to disagree with me you can dm + me directly and then we can digitally kiss. +
++ So yeah. Programming is my job, and because the web is stupid + now, most of what I work on is in Angular or Razor. Which do + have their conveniences, but also they're kind of a pain when + you just want to make something simple to scratch down thoughts + in. +
++ Also I'm pretty sure an Angular SPA would get very mad at you if + you tried to put a marquee tag in it. And since marquee is the + greatest tag in the history of the web, we can't have that. +
++ Anyway, that's probably it for this first entry. If you wanna + find me elsewhere, check the links below, else ta for now love. +
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