Ave Maria refactor and rewrite. I’ve added some cute icons to the article metadata in the process.

One reason my web traffic statistics are public is to demonstrate why having a website might not be worth your while. Sometimes I’m asked to make a website/application but the person asking is none the wiser on Internet trickery and deception.

You think you want a website, but what you’re really looking for is marketing (network effects) for your product or skill set. It’s great when a sad ending is averted.

what a nice day.

I’m just about almost done rewriting the CSS of my main blog just the way I like it. Bulma was a good CSS framework. Fun times…

The “CSS router” has always been quite the clever trick for navigating sufficiently small sites. This site uses it to scroll switch pages, and portable.fyi gets clever with visibility :target switching. Do it just right and no one notices unless they “inspect the elements”.

It’s always humbling when I get around to reading a web related spec. HTML and CSS have a lot of functionality. JavaScript’s not bad (it’s the easiest part of web development) but gives you just enough rope to do super silly things like reinventing all built in browser functions.

The Android and WordPress ecosystems give off similar superstitious vibes. Remember when everyone was obsessed with registry cleaners and system optimizers?

White spaces in HTML trick many into writing complex CSS — web development is trollish that way. Firefox’s developer tools show generated white spaces! Hopefully your abstraction is munging HTML faithfully. It’s easy to fight white spaces without realising it. That generally leads to using unsuitable display types and other shenanigans.

Looks like it’s time to rewrite the CSS of my main website for fast iteration and decoupling Hugo from PHP. I’ll still allow the generated files to move passively through the OPcache in case there’s a need for dynamicity. Hugo has pretty much deprecated all of my PHP hacks.