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It looks like the simplest & long-term easiest thing for me to make a generated static website is going to be a makefile running page bodies through docutils & feeding the results into templates written in m4 macros.

reST is mature & unlikely to change, but make & m4 are in posix, which means they'll stay the same for the rest of my life as long as I avoid GNU extensions.

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so much for lightweight markup 

py36-rst2html5 on a year-old Celeron Braswell CPU: 1.05 seconds.

py36-rst2html5 on a 10-year-old Core 2 Quad Kentsfield CPU: 0.55 seconds.

Same OS, same version, same input file, just different hardware. ... Wat.

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Happy Halloween, everyone!

Tomorrow's half-off candy sale day.

A PUMPKIN MAN SITS INSIDE A PUMPKIN HOUSE

IS THE HOUSE MADE OF FLESH
OR IS HE MADE OF HOUSE?

HE SCREAMS, FOR HE DOES NOT KNOW

Okay, so I have to put this on imgur because image uploads aren't working here at the moment due to a certain service that shall be named as wasabi

imgur.com/Q9PzosG

Caption: Newspaper clipping with headline "Mastodon yells at cloud", the image below that is of the fluffy elephant friend yelling at a cloud above superimposed with the wasabi logo

Every iPhone & Apple Watch in the hospital was disabled by an MRI machine, but Android phones & traditional PCs were unaffected. The cause: helium. Yes, a slightly helium-rich atmosphere. reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments

Let's go live to Wasabi's datacenter where underpaid robots are hard at work righting the tipped-over servers: youtu.be/HdtmmHEs9jg

Help me; I'm looking at m4 for static webpage generation.
dnl
define(`hope',`abandoned')dnl
dnl

"Just run the power lines up from the underground junction straight up a conduit. It'll be fine."

gender hot take 

Hot take: masculinity can be positive and good and maleness is not inherently toxic

The phone face notch is a crap idea, Google was wrong to copy it from Apple, & CSS-inspired DOM transformations are hard: theverge.com/2018/10/29/180391

I finally figured out what the stuttering loading bar on Web Mastodon reminds me of...!

It's , so I'm just going to give up & be a cat today.

*starts walking toward the door, collapses sound asleep curled in the first sunbeam*

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