there's some definition of 'portability' or 'write once, run anywhere' where C99 or even C11 feels like the most reliable thing out there -- with the Web you don't have access to basic Unix capabilities like files or network sockets, and with Python/Ruby/Node the interpreter is this huge complicated thing that can have a weird version or fail in 50 different ways

set up DokuWiki for Folk website a while back -- I'm very drawn to these cheap commodity PHP hosting things where you get cPanel and PHP and MySQL and can just install DokuWiki/MediaWiki/phpBB/WordPress/whatever.

(the main problem is figuring out which host to use, there are so many at places like LowEndTalk, at $10-30/year, and I think you should just arbitrarily pick one)

making a ceramic computer are.na… https://www.are.na/omar-rizwan/ceramic-computer looking for a particular image of a ceramic/porcelain themed PC case opened up

neat https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl/blob/d0458b9068d60d89c590594509443b824520acb9/README.taint

"… we're in a fun situation where modern hardware is something like 100 times faster than the Nintendo 64, but latency is maybe 50ms worse"

maybe static site generator is just a form of caching and PHP is the more fundamental concept