changeset 25:4e019ee9c44d default tip

add Saving This Website
author Franklin Schmidt <fschmidt@gmail.com>
date Mon, 29 Sep 2025 13:22:51 -0600
parents d8e08e435722
children
files src/blog/Saving_This_Website.html src/blog/blog.html
diffstat 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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diff -r d8e08e435722 -r 4e019ee9c44d src/blog/Saving_This_Website.html
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/src/blog/Saving_This_Website.html	Mon Sep 29 13:22:51 2025 -0600
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<!doctype html>
+<html lang="en">
+	<head>
+		<script src="/site.js"></script>
+		<script> head() </script>
+		<title>Arkian - Saving This Website</title>
+	</head>
+	<body>
+		<script> header() </script>
+		<div content>
+
+<h1>Saving This Website</h1>
+
+<p>This website was originally only hosted on my Luan server and source kept on my Mercurial hosting service.  But since <a href="Programming_Is_Hopeless.html">programming is hopeless</a> and all modern scum programmers hate my software, I have to assume that these hosting options will disappear.  So to save this website, I have to make it independent of my software.</p>
+
+<p>This website was first implemented in Luan.  I have made this website purely HTML, CSS, and Javascript.  In other words, everything runs in the browser.  This eliminates the dependency on Luan.</p>
+
+<p>Next I needed backup web hosting and Mercurial hosting.  I chose <a href="https://www.netlify.com/">Netlify</a> for backup web hosting and <a href="https://repositoryhosting.com/">Repository Hosting</a> for Mercurial.  Finding Mercurial hosting was <a href="https://claude.ai/share/b1b541a0-d7fd-41d7-8ee0-cfd688c7df01">a nightmare</a>.</p>
+
+<p>To keep this site alive, I added a <a href="/requirements.html">membership requirement</a> to keep a copy of this site.  I added a web page about <a href="/this.html">this website</a>.  And I added a private website containing passwords and other private info.  With access to these things, any Arkian should be able to keep this website alive.</p>
+
+		</div>
+	</body>
+</html>
diff -r d8e08e435722 -r 4e019ee9c44d src/blog/blog.html
--- a/src/blog/blog.html	Sun Sep 28 13:50:30 2025 -0600
+++ b/src/blog/blog.html	Mon Sep 29 13:22:51 2025 -0600
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 			<h1>Blog</h1>
 
 			<ul links>
+				<li><a href="Saving_This_Website.html">Saving This Website</a></li>
 				<li><a href="Programming_Is_Hopeless.html">Programming Is Hopeless</a></li>
 			</ul>
 		</div>