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A bit of superstition: It looks like I'll finally finish my static website generator during the waxing half of the lunar cycle. I think that's a good thing, but a bit of doubt lingers.

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Have I actually finished a project I started at last? Not quite yet, but all I have to do is proofread and tweak its readme file, and my static website generator will be ready to unleash on an unsuspecting world!

Honestly, I don't expect much of anyone to want to use it. It uses Make, M4, & Markdown to generate pages, & it's best used with a CLI text editor, not anything GUI or shiny or "modern." But it's perilously close to finished!

The cold was actually the flu. I got over it after two whole miserable weeks, but a whole month later I still have the sore throat & cough from hell. :blobsneezing:

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Hot cocoa while bundled up in a unicorn kigu? Hot cocoa while bundled up in a unicorn kigu.

Why compress by smallest size first? If you had just a little space left on filesystem, compressing this way has higher chance of success.

ls -Sr1 | while IFS=$'\n' read -r file ; do gzip -v9 "$file" ; done # Compress files in CWD according to size, starting with smallest.

yes "$(seq 231 -1 16)" | while read i; do printf "\x1b[48;5;${i}m\n"; sleep .02; done # A rainbow in your shell.

A Holden Commodore screeches to a halt. The Commodores Greatest Hits blares from within until the car is turned off. I open the door & emerge with a Commodore SX-64 carried like a briefcase. I turn to the camera, smiling & holding up a finger from my free hand. A disembodied voice sings the jingle, "Are you keeping up with the Commodore? Because the Commodore is keeping up with you."

Unlike the simple on-off switch built into some browsers, NoScript & ScriptSafe are selective & granular JavaScript blockers. That means, with either of them, you can allow JavaScript from a website's domains while blocking & distrusting JavaScript from ad network domains. And that distrust of an ad network's JavaScript (or any domain's JS) follows you across the World Wide Web to every website attempting to use it on you, not just the one site you distrusted it on.

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Merry Yule, northern hemisphere folks! Merry Litha, southern hemisphere folks!

Unlike the simple on-off switch built into some browsers, NoScript & ScriptSafe are selective & granular JavaScript blockers. That means, with either of them, you can allow JavaScript from a website's domains while blocking & distrusting JavaScript from ad network domains. And that distrust of an ad network's JavaScript (or any domain's JS) follows you across the World Wide Web to every website attempting to use it on you, not just the one site you distrusted it on.

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For anti-adblock pop-ups, I usually recommend the more extreme action of blocking JavaScript on that website, either through "Site Settings" behind the info icon in the Chrome address bar, or through an extension such as NoScript for Firefox & ScriptSafe for Chrome/Chromium.

If the page content is completely inaccessible with both ads & JS blocked, then there's nothing for it; I recommend abandoning the site. Like a game of Three-Card Monte in an alley, the only winning move is not to play.

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