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    From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to All on Sunday, April 26, 2026 08:21:59
    I'm playing with old tech on my tilde - specifically, Blosxom, a
    blogging tool written in PERL I played with back in the early 2000s.
    It's nice, simple, can create static pages or dynamically serve a blog,
    and had a wide variety of plugins.

    One limitation is that it doesn't have pagination - you can't flip
    through pages of posts, only see one page's worth.

    There's a whole registry of plugins, including the pagination I want,
    but they were all written in 2003. There are deprecated statements in
    the code that throw up errors. My PERL was spotty at best back in the
    day - does anyone have experience with LLMs updating PERL code, or any
    other tools that can automatically update PERL code?

    Blosxom with some of the plugins enabled would be a wonderful smol blogging platform.

    I have another app, a photo gallery app. It's written in PHP, that also
    hasn't been updated in as many years and is throwing up errors. I'm
    interested in updating it as well.



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  • From Mortar@VERT/EOTLBBS to poindexter FORTRAN on Monday, April 27, 2026 09:40:01
    Re: Upgrading old PERL scripts
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Sun Apr 26 2026 08:21:59

    A couple Qs:

    I'm playing with old tech on my tilde...

    What's a "tilde"?

    ...would be a wonderful smol blogging

    What's "smol"?

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Mortar on Monday, April 27, 2026 09:15:03
    Re: Upgrading old PERL scripts
    By: Mortar to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Apr 27 2026 09:40 am

    ...would be a wonderful smol blogging

    What's "smol"?

    That's an internet slang word. From Google:

    "Smol" is an internet slang term for something that is extremely small and adorable. Originating as an intentional misspelling of "small," it is frequently used on social media to describe cute pets, babies, or small objects, often evoking a sense of innocence. It implies a higher level of cuteness than simply being tiny.

    Usage Examples & Contexts
    Pets & Animals: Describing a tiny puppy, kitten, or animal, often as "a smol bean".
    Affectionate Description: Used to describe people, typically partners or celebrities, in an endearing way, such as "my smol son".
    Memes & Social Media: Frequently used on Tumblr, Twitter, and Vine to highlight endearing, small, or naive characteristics.
    Sarcastic/Other Use: In some contexts, it can be used sarcastically to mock na‹vet‚.

    Nightfox

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Mortar on Monday, April 27, 2026 13:33:53
    Re: Upgrading old PERL scripts
    By: Mortar to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Apr 27 2026 09:40 am

    What's a "tilde"?

    Probably in reference to https://tilde.club/
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  • From Mortar@VERT/EOTLBBS to Digital Man on Tuesday, April 28, 2026 09:31:19
    Re: Upgrading old PERL scripts
    By: Digital Man to Mortar on Mon Apr 27 2026 13:33:53

    Probably in reference to https://tilde.club/

    Oh, this is nice. Definitely gonna spend some time here. Love the color scheme.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Mortar on Tuesday, April 28, 2026 07:32:04
    Mortar wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    I'm playing with old tech on my tilde...

    What's a "tilde"?

    A small *nix system set up online as a community using old-school tools
    like email, nntp, local message boards, Gemini, Gopher and personal web servers. You log in with an SSH client and get a command line shell.

    Back in the day, web providers would often provide web space to user
    accounts, with the URL being http://yourisp.com/~username, and the ~
    stuck as a name for the concept.

    This guy explains it better than I could:

    https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-and-woke-up-with-1-000-nerds-a8904f0a2ebf

    ...would be a wonderful smol blogging

    What's "smol"?

    A throwback to limited javascript, hand-coded, static blogs - Web 1.0,
    if you will.

    http://smolweb.org describes it well.





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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Mortar on Thursday, April 30, 2026 10:53:00
    Mortar wrote to Digital Man <=-

    Probably in reference to https://tilde.club/

    Oh, this is nice. Definitely gonna spend some time here. Love the
    color scheme.

    I've had a lot of fun playing with web 1.0 tools, hanging out on their
    IRC, and learning about Gemini - oh, and reading email with (al)PINE
    again. Oh, and I finally learned how to use tmux to have multiple
    console screens in an SSH session.





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