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owlroost 3 months ago

NOW the poem should show up. I stuck it on the wrong page originally!

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kph 3 months ago

Super fun to read your dreamy muse-prose-poem-vision. I especially love the way you describe the water going down and down. And checkov's harpoon guns! A real treat.

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kph 3 months ago

I've also been debating moving to some sort of site generator recently, now that I have less time to enjoy fussing around with the details and keeping sections synced. Tempted by the prospect of PHP but might just go the static site generator route to avoid hosting fees for now. Any suggestions or lessons to share?

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owlroost 3 months ago

PHP and SSI are both fantastic if you have them- there's a good bit of that sprinkled around my site (for example: automated rollover of sitelogs is via PHP includes). Eleventy is supposed to be the easiest SSG to learn- I tried, but honestly, I've been happier rolling my own scripts. There's a lot of Python glueing things together before they get uploaded. DIYing it makes the setup make innate sense to me.

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owlroost 3 months ago

Definitely depends how much time you want to spend on it, though, and what you find fun. A SSG almost certainly takes less time to learn than the time it takes to write and debug your own scripts (though it depends on implementation). But rolling my own scripts is enjoyable to me and is indirectly teaching me how SSGs work- I've had to read about them to work out how to implement a very simple version of them myself.

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oldfag 3 months ago

web1.0hosting.net supports SSI, possible to reuse HTML, much more convenient

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kph 3 months ago

Thanks for the tips! And the link to the article I knew you had but couldn't find. I suspect we have similar code-loving system-designing brains so I'm VERY tempted to make my own ssg but I have so little free time with the new job. Might start with eleventy and see if it annoys me enough to write up something that'll paste static bits together for me and convert markdown to html for essays.

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Regex, my beloved- managed to cut out useless links from the Latest page with Python and regex. Hooray for online tools to make it a little easier to write working regular expressions!
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owlroost 3 months ago

Big day: new album release!

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This is a great idea and I'd love to join- muse page here (https://owlsroost.xyz/muse.html) and button here (https://owlsroost.xyz/outlinks/button-bonanza.html#my-button).
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tehuan 4 months ago

yay, lovely ! i’ll add you tonight. your site is v cool also ^)^

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swiftred 4 months ago

So!! Excited!! to read your work ;D

swiftred 4 months ago

Your entry is so moving, and the end is so empowering and beautiful. I was especially struck by "this one curls up small and shuts up, waits for the world to leave (you have such a well-behaved kid!)" as well as the whole metaphor of carefully sewing up what was never truly lost. Just, wow.

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kph 4 months ago

Fun to see the first entry in yet another format, and excited to see where else your stuff goes. Definitely relate a lot to all of these musings & takes on skin.

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