Subj : Re: Blogging like it's 1999
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : paulie420
Date : Wed Jul 05 2023 07:45 pm

 pF> I've been playing with tildes for a while - they're community-based *nix
 pF> systems where people can play with shell utilities, create home pages,
 pF> gemini pages and gopher spaces, lurk on IRC and generally interact with
 pF> a community of people with similar interests - much like a local dial-up
 pF> BBS.
 pF> 
 pF> There are a couple of blog generators on my tilde, but I took a walk
 pF> down memory lane and fired up blosxom, a web site generator I was
 pF> interested in back in the 2000s. It's PERL-based, but there are Python
 pF> and PHP ports out there. You create a template, throw text files in a
 pF> directory, and it displays them in chronological order.
 pF> 
 pF> I'm liking this - I turned my 2000s era blog into a photoblog, have a
 pF> business-focused blog under my company name, and can now use my blosxom
 pF> blog as a throwback journal, like in the old LiveJournal days - except
 pF> without the angsty dating drama.   :)
 pF> 
 pF> https://tilde.club/~poindexter

I never heard of tilde.club before, but I'm both enjoying checking out yer page and checking out tildes. Thanks - this is fun... PS, brush yer hair and get a real job!! :P



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