Colophon

Do you remember the web as it was before, before the so called social web (I have met and learned to know new people through internet forums, but never through social medias), when it actually was more social? I do! This site is my link to the past (pun intended), a site consisting of static HTML pages, where I can publish anything I like and how I like it; and I like to Keep It Simple, Stupid.

This web site has looked this ‘‘boring’’ (I think that the correct word is simple ;)) since I released it several years ago; I don’t remember when but I would guess it was in 2007. A short while after I found MC’s site and has since then taken a great deal of inspiration from him. It is so relieving to found someone on the web these days that don’t have too show off his or hers computer skills (or ignorance with the lack of them) and that don’t has to use the supposed “latest and greatest” technology (Django, Ruby on Rails, node.js or whatever the next thing will be) while snorting at the “old and boring”; sometimes old knows the best: LaTeX is for example still superior in any way to Microsoft Word if you want to write a technical report (I know, I have to do just that almost daily in my profession), but the common opinion is that a WYSIWYG word processor is the shit. And, belive it or not, Perl still has its uses.

Comic Sans, WTF?!

Yes, it is a tribute to the OpenBSD project. Some of its developers like to use it. I don’t know the background, but in some cases I suspect that they just want to annoy people. ;)

Tools

These pages are written in MultiMarkDown – a superset of Markdown – and converted to HTML code using the program with the same name, further processed by minion; derived from mdn. Vim is my text editor of choice; I have never seen any reason to use a LISP machine as an editor (yes, I’m picking on GNU Emacs). ;)

The build is automated with bsdmake as described in a Makefile. The gallery is generated with simgal by MC, though I have made some small (currently undocumented) changes and the sitemap is generated by tree.pl that I found via MC (also with some changes from my side).


Last updated: 2016–06–20 20:21:34 CEST