From 06db7c945ce6b797536135e32416cece7dc251d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: knolax <1339802534.kk@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 18:44:33 -0500 Subject: actual added the making this site page --- cont/meta.html | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ img/meta/source.png | Bin 0 -> 23382 bytes index.html | 4 +++- meta.html | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++- 4 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 img/meta/source.png diff --git a/cont/meta.html b/cont/meta.html index e161a18..09791e2 100644 --- a/cont/meta.html +++ b/cont/meta.html @@ -4,3 +4,25 @@ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [SETTITLE]Making This Site [SETDATE]11-13-2017 +So you've stumbled on this ugly looking site and are wondering what the hell it +is? Well I'll have you know that it looks like this on purpose! This a static +site where the main content is text and the occasional picture, any styling I +put on here is just bloat. It makes no sense to serve 1 megabyte pages just to +deliver a couple kilobytes of text. After some experimentation I've decided to +make this site as close to plaintext as possible. + +So how does this all work? Well first of all I'm not hosting this by myself, +I'm using github.io to host this. Everything you see on this site comes from +a git repo found here: https://github.com/knolax/hairydiode. +This has some limitations however, with the way my domain registrar is set up, +this site can't be HTTPS(or I haven't figured out how yet); and since github +isn't exactly a CDN, image loading is a little slow. + +So how do I acheive this "wonderful" web-brutalist asthetic? Well to start off +I write the pages in cont/. What I write is for the most part plaintext, with +the exception of links and images. Then I run a script 《gen.sh》that appends +headers and footers to what I write to make it an acceptable HTML page. The +results are put in the root directory of the repo, and served up to you by +github's servers when I push my changes. +

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+ Making This Site                                                      11-13-2017
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+So you've stumbled on this ugly looking site and are wondering what the hell it
+is? Well I'll have you know that it looks like this on purpose! This a static
+site where the main content is text and the occasional picture, any styling I
+put on here is just bloat. It makes no sense to serve 1 megabyte pages just to
+deliver a couple kilobytes of text. After some experimentation I've decided to
+make this site as close to plaintext as possible.
+
+So how does this all work? Well first of all I'm not hosting this by myself,
+I'm using github.io to host this. Everything you see on this site comes from
+a git repo found here: https://github.com/knolax/hairydiode.
+This has some limitations however, with the way my domain registrar is set up,
+this site can't be HTTPS(or I haven't figured out how yet); and since github
+isn't exactly a CDN, image loading is a little slow.
+
+So how do I acheive this "wonderful" web-brutalist asthetic? Well to start off
+I write the pages in cont/. What I write is for the most part plaintext, with
+the exception of links and images. Then I run a script 《gen.sh》that appends
+headers and footers to what I write to make it an acceptable HTML page. The
+results are put in the root directory of the repo, and served up to you by
+github's servers when I push my changes.
+
+
+