Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

One of the shortcomings of HTML websites that the LAMP stack promised to solve (& did at a price) is the absence of theming/templating. But the W3C actually solved that long ago in a powerful way: XML + XSLT. An XSLT file can turn XML data into HTML pages very easily & quickly, but LAMP's pains were so much easier to live with that XSLT never got far enough beyond browser support to have CLI tools.

Fursona Name Generator: http://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/fursona-names.php

I got right away: Mudcoat Averagegrowl

I'm going a bit more old-school with mine (favoring POSIX compliance over New Shinies for the most part), but the article is right about the main motivation & timing reasons: dynamic websites are slow, buggy, & often overkill; & LMLs are mature.

Why Static Site Generators Are The Next Big Thing: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/11/modern-static-website-generators-next-big-thing/

Someone got it 3 years ago.

That's a first. A "Microsoft" tech support scammer just robocalled my ISP help desk. The pre-recorded, computer-generated voice started speaking as soon as I picked up the line.

I've finally reached the "it works!" stage of my static website generator, & I'm so close to finished I can taste it. The only make target left to implement is the site upload.
*happy excited jitters*

I paid attention enough today to get perilously close to the "it works!" milestone of my static website makefile.

Oumuamua is not aliens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wICOlaQOpM0

If you see packs of wolves while out shopping on Black Friday this year, please remember that it's the full moon, they're werewolves, & they're just hunting for bargains. Like you.

The Joust to Defender hack is missing the smart-bomb button (because the Joust box has only one game button: flap), but if you're adventurous, you can transplant the game ROM into the Rampage box, which has two game buttons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeNS3JnLmNc

Retro handheld game (not too big for CW):

And Joust to Defender hack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kRvsfbadIs

Oh, wow! It turns out that Basic Fun put 2 games in 1 for some of their Arcade Classics boxes & controlled which 1 loads by a jumper pad on the logic board. Just to the right of the game-on-chip blob is J1: On the Centipede & Joust boxes, the pad is open, & on the Q-bert & Defender boxes, the pad is shorted.

The open pad can be shorted out with a screwdriver or soldered switch hack.

Centipede to Q-bert hack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUY7CD6vilk

Another game I've been wanting to play since the '90s is a Game Boy game called "Catrap," a puzzle platformer. It was released in Japan as "Pitman," but c'mon, "Catrap" is a cooler name.
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/catrap/catrap.htm

As little-known as the game is, I'm surprised it actually has fan art: https://www.deviantart.com/horriblepencilist/art/AKA-Pitman-268812260

I'm playing it as Catgirl instead of Catboy because of course I am. :3
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LB: I still want that outfit.
https://wxw.moe/@catgirls_bot/101084495286584874