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author | Franklin Schmidt <fschmidt@gmail.com> |
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date | Fri, 27 Jun 2025 22:53:30 -0600 |
parents | 1fd37b122e4a |
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files | src/about.html.luan src/learn.html.luan src/learn_bash.html.luan |
diffstat | 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/src/about.html.luan Tue Jun 24 12:15:30 2025 -0600 +++ b/src/about.html.luan Fri Jun 27 22:53:30 2025 -0600 @@ -25,13 +25,13 @@ <div content> <h1>About Reactionary Software</h1> - <p>Google "html swipe" and see all kinds of horrors. I needed to implement this for phone users of my commercial website, and seeing the horrible solutions (all of which use Javascript) that are used depressed me. But I found <a href="http://fschmidt.luan.software/swipe.html">a simple solution</a>. Try it on a phone. Smooth swipe. No Javascript, no complicated crap. View the source. It's simple.</p> + <p>Google "html swipe" and see all kinds of horrors. I needed to implement this for phone users of my commercial website, and seeing the horrible solutions (all of which use Javascript) that are used depressed me. But I found <a href="http://fschmidt.luan.software/swipe.html">a simple solution</a>. Try it on a phone. Smooth swipe. No Javascript, no complicated junk. View the source. It's simple.</p> <p>I have this kind of experience all the time. I need something. I look online. Everything I find is horribly over-complicated. And so I just write it myself. Don't reinvent the wheel you say? When every wheel I can find is some complicated shape and not a simple circle, then I do reinvent the wheel.</p> <p>This <a href="https://youtu.be/PCRx78Zhj7s">funny video</a> exemplifies modern design. Over-engineered, over-complicated, inflexible, and cumbersome. All modern software is like this. Of course it wasn't always like this. Most programming in the last century was good. Serious deterioration started around 2000 and by 2010 all software developed by modern culture was horrible. This reflects the general decline of modern culture.</p> - <p>I have written numerous posts over the years complaining about modern software. Here is <a href="https://mikraite.arkian.net/Modern-Software-Layers-of-Junk-tp747.html">one</a> from 2016 complaining about DNS caching. It goes into detail about the particular issue I was dealing with at the time, but I am only posting a link because the details aren't important. The important point is that all modern software written by modern programmers is like this, all horrible unusable crap. And this is why reasonable people need reactionary software.</p> + <p>I have written numerous posts over the years complaining about modern software. Here is <a href="https://mikraite.arkian.net/Modern-Software-Layers-of-Junk-tp747.html">one</a> from 2016 complaining about DNS caching. It goes into detail about the particular issue I was dealing with at the time, but I am only posting a link because the details aren't important. The important point is that all modern software written by modern programmers is like this, all horrible unusable junk. And this is why reasonable people need reactionary software.</p> <p>This website is about software, but the principle applies to everything. Here is <a href="https://youtu.be/p5qVxAoKwbE">a video about brick walls</a>. Same basic story. So where will this decay of software and everything else lead?</p>
--- a/src/learn.html.luan Tue Jun 24 12:15:30 2025 -0600 +++ b/src/learn.html.luan Fri Jun 27 22:53:30 2025 -0600 @@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ <p>I left out resources for HTML itself. You should just look up HTML tags with Google or ChatGPT as you encounter them. That is good enough to learn HTML.</p> -<p>Ideally one should be able to look at web pages around the internet to learn. But unfortunately they are mostly overcomplicated crap that is very difficult to understand. You can try. My personal websites are like this one - very simple, so they don't look professional to modern culture. I can't link to my best commercial website because that would ruin its reputation (because I am infamous). But I can link to some of my old commercial websites <a href="http://test.tleggings.com/">here</a> and <a href="http://test.super-resume.com/">here</a>. These have reasonable HTML and CSS.</p> +<p>Ideally one should be able to look at web pages around the internet to learn. But unfortunately they are mostly overcomplicated junk that is very difficult to understand. You can try. My personal websites are like this one - very simple, so they don't look professional to modern culture. I can't link to my best commercial website because that would ruin its reputation (because I am infamous). But I can link to some of my old commercial websites <a href="http://test.tleggings.com/">here</a> and <a href="http://test.super-resume.com/">here</a>. These have reasonable HTML and CSS.</p> <p>I have a few general principles for working with HTML and CSS. First, modern culture claims that HTML is for content and CSS is for styling. This is nonsense. Both HTML and CSS are for layout, don't think of them as being conceptually different. Just use both in the simplest possible way to get the results you want. Don't bother with the useless new HTML5 content tags like <code>header</code>. Just use <code>div</code> and <code>span</code> for most things. Also I use HTML attributes as selectors, not HTML classes. This is just simpler. HTML classes are useless, leave them for modern culture.</p>
--- a/src/learn_bash.html.luan Tue Jun 24 12:15:30 2025 -0600 +++ b/src/learn_bash.html.luan Fri Jun 27 22:53:30 2025 -0600 @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ title = [[Introduction]] content = function() %> -<p>I really don't want to write this tutorial, but all the existing Bash tutorials are so horrible that I have no choice. I looked at books, websites, and YouTube - all horrible. They don't start with the basics. They include all kinds of useless crap. And they don't explain core concepts. So I have no choice but to write this for my <a href="learn.html#bash">Learn Reactionary Programming</a> Bash lesson.</p> +<p>I really don't want to write this tutorial, but all the existing Bash tutorials are so horrible that I have no choice. I looked at books, websites, and YouTube - all horrible. They don't start with the basics. They include all kinds of useless junk. And they don't explain core concepts. So I have no choice but to write this for my <a href="learn.html#bash">Learn Reactionary Programming</a> Bash lesson.</p> <p><a href="bash.html">Bash</a> is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_shell">shell</a>, one of many, but the one I prefer. I will focus on Mac and Windows. I don't have Linux, and I hate Linux, so I won't discuss it. Most of Bash is the same on Mac and Windows, but where they differ, I will discuss both.</p> <%