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Accessibility Concerns Over Bakerl0.0 Line Advertiser's Rebrand(bbc.co.uk)
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by susam 9mo ago
Most people who are into competitive programming have moved to < https://codeforces.com/ >. If you're looking for a community, there is also an IRC channel named #algorithms on Libera where competitive programming
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Personal Websites with a /now Page(nownownow.com)
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Is Craigslist the Last Real Place on the Internet?(wired.com)
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Who Was Caroline Haslett?(bbc.co.uk)
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Akiyoshi Kitaoka's Optical Illusions: The Latest Works #72 (2024)(psy.ritsumei.ac.jp)
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by susam 10mo ago
> But you, Jeff and Susam have all tried to say that SSGs are generally better, easier, safer or faster. I'd just like to clarify that this is not what I was trying to say. In fact, once a website needs server-side programming to s
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by susam 10mo ago
> I'm hyper aware my position feels controversial and at odds with people like you and Jeff for whom I have immense respect for. Thank you for the kind words. I don't find your position to be controversial at all. Preferring
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by susam 10mo ago
> [...] what problem were you solving with the SSG part of that solution? Why would you choose to pregenerate a bunch of stuff which might never get used any time anyone comments or updates your website, when you have the compute and pro
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by susam 10mo ago
I have always had a comments section on my website since its early days. Originally, my website was written as a set of PHP pages. Back then, I had a PHP page that served as the comment form. So later when I switched to Common Lisp, I re
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by susam 10mo ago
Thank you. My current home page has about 70 entries. The HTML size is about 7 kB and the compressed transfer size is about 3 kB. I created a test page with 2000 randomly generated entries here: < https://susam.net/code&
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by susam 10mo ago
> How do you handle comments in a "static blog"? The comment form is implemented as a server-side program using Common Lisp and Hunchentoot. So this is the only part of the website that is not static. The server-side program
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by susam 10mo ago
> Your wife’s Python version is quite impressive. Thank you. That was, in fact, the inspiration behind writing my own in CL.
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by susam 10mo ago
> SSGs are good for static sites with no interactivity or feedback. If you want interactivity or feedback, someone (you or a 3rd party service provider) is going to have to run a server. For my website, I do both. Static HTML pages are g
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by susam 10mo ago
A few years ago, I decided to migrate my personal website to a Common Lisp (CL) based static site generator that I wrote myself. In hindsight, it is one of the best decisions I have made for my website. It started out at around 850 lines
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"Goto Considered Harmful" Considered Harmful (1987)(dl.acm.org)
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How to sync Mac and Linux /home (2024)(sive.rs)
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by susam 10mo ago
My blog moved from #99 in 2024 to #41 in 2025. Although I have never had any intention of blogging consistently, it is nice to know that I had a good blogging year. :) Here's what my data looks like: | Year | Rank | Domain | Sco
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by susam 10mo ago
He is featured in the top 100 list. See here: https://refactoringenglish.com/tools/hn-popularity/?start=20...
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by susam 10mo ago
I do not deliberately measure traffic. And I certainly never put UTM parameters in URLs as a sibling comment mentioned, because I find them ugly. My personal website is a passion project and I care about its aesthetics, including the aesthe
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by susam 10mo ago
We are talking about different ASPs. I am referring to Active Server Pages (ASP), the server-side scripting language supported by Personal Web Server (PWS) and Internet Information Services (IIS) on Windows. It is similar to PHP Hypertext P
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by susam 10mo ago
This is pretty much how I began developing websites too. Except it was 2001 instead of 2026. And it was ASP (the classic ASP that predates ASP.NET) instead of Python. And I had a Windows 98 machine in my dorm room with Personal Web Serve
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by susam 10mo ago
> The question is, do you have this traffic because of RSS client crawlers that pre-loaded the content or from real users. I have never seen RSS clients or crawlers preload actual HTML pages. I've only seen them fetching the XML fee
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by susam 10mo ago
Also, don't forget to set up an RSS or Atom feed for your website. Contrary to the recurring claim that RSS is dead, most of the traffic to my website still comes from RSS feeds, even in 2̶0̶2̶5̶ 2026! In fact, one of my silly little
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The Forgotten Art of the LAN Party (2023)(superjumpmagazine.com)
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Equal Length Words(susam.net)
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Penn and Teller Help Rob Pike and Dennis Ritchie Play a Prank on Arno Penzias [video](youtube.com)
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Creating Your Own Website(32bit.cafe)
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How I Make These ASCII Pictures and Links to Other Tutorials (2000)(web.archive.org)
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Love Actually is around Heathrow (2021)(heathrow.com)
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