Just found out that AI Dungeon is finally fixed and became playable.
Finally.
2021-10-30, 19:52
Cleaned my OS. A lot of it. As a result, ruby interpreter suddenly got removed and so I had to reinstall it to keep neocities script working. Gems and pips are for libraries, not for programs.
2021-10-30, 05:52
Technically, all my communication with the hosting is through scripts, which are kind of like a backend. Which means this website is like a dynamic website.
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Hans, am I the baddie?
2021-10-25, 00:55
CSS weighs circa 400 bytes and does the required minimum to keep the page readable. Netsurf fully supports the website, Links presentation differs but is nonetheless neat and readable. No Javascript and limited CSS — this is how pages should have been evolving.
Below are entries that mostly tell about my journey to style the website. It’s not as interesting as it sounds, so I don’t recommend scrolling down.
2021-10-23, 22:38
Pink communism. Yes, literally.
2021-10-23, 19:01
That’s it. No more ‘span’s for timestamps. they take space, my precious little space. You have to load <span class="timestamp"></span> instead of <em></em> and the class block takes up 56 bytes in CSS. The only visible difference from simple cursive is a slightly smaller text. So I’m removing it.
Yes, I’m that maniacal.
2021-10-23, 16:22
Damn, just look at the time.
2021-10-23, 07:28
Nailed it. No more overlays. No more hacks with making spans div-like. It’s clear and simple now. Not just that, but it’s readable at any reasonable resolution. Yes, cellphones too.
(I had a cellphone in army. It had basic connection to the Internet, but 95% of websites just couldn’t load. Consider this to be a sort of tribute to those times.)
2021-10-23, 06:32
UPD (40 minutes later): Made a small hack/fix to improve readability on text-based browsers. Now entry titles and timestamps will be doubled by according bold/italic tags. I should probably automate entry commission.
UPD2 (literally a minute after): Cursives don’t matter for Links (and W3M straight up misrepresents them as underscored), so I’m dropping them. This is my piece of knowledge for you: if you don’t need it, drop it so as to not bother yourself with legacy code in the future. As for entry names, they won’t have special CSS class anymore. CSS is evil.
Well, doesn’t this feel weird. It’s almost frightening what CSS can do to a website. Actually, scratch that. It is frightening. Quite.
HTML pages were supposed to be documents, no? People might be entrusted with too much flexibility. Also, somehow this layout still works quite well on both Netsurf and Links. Well, that is, until you decide to shrink the Netsurf window to ridiculous sizes. How much is enough to start worrying about compatibility? 240px seems reasonable, but I’m not sure.
2021-10-23, 06:10
This is the first of the entries. I don’t know if they are supposed to be decorated as special div’s, or as simple markdown-styled entries, or in any other way. I guess I’ll see how it works out. It’s divs for now, so I can play with the style a bit.
The important part is to keep it readable with Netsurf and Links, of course. If I ever go Unabomber, primitive ways to communicate would be quite handy. I’m a technological person, I can’t fully abandon the Web. But I can limit its usage to ridiculous lows — I had enough experience with low-end hardware.
2021-10-23, 05:32