Colophon

> Simplicity, carried to an extreme, becomes elegance.

— Jon Franklin

In this modern word of FooBooks and BarSpaces personal web pages might
look like an abandonded technology, but I like them. I encourage
everyone to have one.

## Philosophy

I am not a web designer, as should be painfully obvious from these
pages. Content, in my case, is mostly text, so that's what I'm trying
to deliver. I try to follow standards and try to avoid using images
for decoration or for navigational purposes. The images that I use on
my pages, mostly photos, carry at least some meaning themselves.

Almost all pages are static files containing a small subset of HTML 5.
There's no Javascript. I don't do cookies, unless you count the ones
baked in an oven.

I have written rater minimal CSS compliant stylesheets but all pages
should be perfectly viewable without CSS support.

I include a timestamp at the bottom of each ordinary HTML file unless
it is otherwise dated.

## Tools Used

- [GNU Emacs](http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/), a Lisp based
  operating system cunningly disguised as a text editor, was used to
  write all text. Most of it was written in Markdown. Some was written
  in Org Mode markup.

- My [mdn](mdn) script and [CommonMark](http://commonmark.org/)'s
  `cmark` Markdown parser made most pages. `mdn` is mostly a wrapper
  around cmark, automatically run by `make`.

- [BSD make](https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?make(1)) was used to
  automatically rebuild HTML files if the source files had changed.

- [org-static-blog](https://github.com/bastibe/org-static-blog) and
  Emacs' [Org Mode's](https://orgmode.org/) ordinary HTML export
  rendered [the blog](/mc/blog/) with mostly the same CSS as
  the rest of my web pages.

- [simgal](/mc/projects/simgal/), a simple shell script I wrote, made
  my [photo albums](/mc/gallery/), but the real job was made by
  ImageMagick and jhead.

- [txt2tags](http://txt2tags.org/) made some of the older pages.

- My [flist](projects/flist) script made some of the really ancient
  file lists.

- LaTeX made some of the PDFs.

- [Groff](https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/) with my own macros made
  some PDFs.

Some of the Postscript files were written directly in Postscript by
myself, mostly just for the fun of it.

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