Hi, I'm Deven Blake. I'm just your normal everyday nerd.
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Hi, I'm Deven Trinity Blake. I'm just your normal everyday nerd.
translations of my name include:
ديفين بلايك
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#services,
#praise,
#control,
+#playground,
#zelda,
+#htmlbeliefs,
#now,
#harmful,
#trinitisms,
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GitHub, devenblake;
GitLab, devenblake;
Hacker News, devenblake;
+Ieddit, but nobody's responded to my multiple requests to delete my unused account;
itch.io, devenblake;
Matter, deven;
Notabug, deven;
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Reddit, u/devenblake;
Soundcloud, devenblake;
SpaceHey, dtb;
+TikTok, trn1ty;
Twitter, but I'm suspended on both @officialiowa and @trn1ty (which prevents me from deactivating my accounts, which I will when I can);
Wikipedia, DTB
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The following inputs use JavaScript to change this page's stylesheet:
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The following button manipulates the site cookie. This setting is the only use of cookies anywhere on this website.
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+It's no secret that I type every character of my website, by hand, without any form of generation.
+I brag about it a lot. It's my justification for calling other, ostensibly better websites garbage.
+It also doubles as a bit of a running gag. The intention, partially, is to shock people.
+Also a bit to inspire them. "All you need is a browser and a text editor." And the usual contrarianism.
+Many of these qualities are considered bad and for good reasons - it's just needless. We've progressed past raw HTML-writing.
+Modern computers can handle modern websites. And these are all not only good reasons but true.
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+However keep in mind that sometimes progress isn't good. (I do not mean social progress, which I support in most forms.)
+Where has progress in the web taken us? Commercial advertisements in cyber-space? Web browsers running proprietary third party code?
+Digitally restricted media being limited to playback within browsers? While yes, these are technological advancements, they're a
+progression of Capitalism, not of humanity. They are a sign of the conquest of the web by the hands of the corporate world. Yuck.
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+So I don't write bare HTML to be contrary to other "web developers", though contrarianism is a welcome part of it.
+I write bare HTML to encourage the usage of web browsers that prioritize privacy and tell anyone looking to make a buck through the web to sod off.
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Anyway, with the philosophical side out of the way, here's a list in arbitrary order of things I think make good HTML
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+No necessary JavaScript at all.
+If your site isn't accessible with NoScript enabled it's totally useless.
+If you provide a service via JavaScript, rewrite it in native code.
+If you provide a service that's redundant to others' services, good on you.
+There needs to be more software diversity even with technologies I don't necessarily like.
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+Your site should be viewable without CSS.
+It doesn't need to look pretty, it needs to be viewable and useable.
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+No DIVs or SPANs.
+If you're following the rest of these rules they're totally unnecessary.
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+No minification of any site code ever. If your site takes a long time to load you need multiple pages or less bloat.
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