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## About [%blogname] ##

Hi, I'm attila, ye olde hacker, grouchy white dude having a normal
one.

I support
[Black Lives Matter](https://www.blmchapterstatement.com/#donate), the
[BDS Movement](https://bsdmovement.net), the
[Palestinian People](https://electronicintifada.net) and anti-fascists
in general and everywhere.  I also support LGBTQ+ people and
[Indigenous People](https://iaf-fai.org/) everywhere in their
struggles for liberation.

I also spend a lot and not enough time with
[Roni and our dogs](https://dogsofcelestun.blogspot.com).

This site is 100% static content.  There are no interactive features
or server-side software other than the HTTP daemon that serves the
static content and there is no client-side software whatsoever.  You
do not need JavaScript enabled.

If you feel the need to comment on something here in public, there are
[a lot of ways](https://twitter.com) you can
[do that elsewhere](https://reddit.com) now.  If you want to comment
to me about something directly see the [Contact](/contact.html) page
for how to reach me.

### A Bit of Perl ###

This site is fundamentally fueled by
[MultiMarkdown](https://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/).  The final
MultiMarkdown files are generated, lightly, by a Perl script named
[flog.pl](flog.pl) (driven by [a BSD Makefile](Makefile), which does
have a tiny bit of skulduggery in it).  The posts and pages are
written in MultiMarkdown and the Perl script analyzes and modifies
them slightly on their way into the final directory structure for the
blog.  It also generates all of the indexes, archives, etc. in
MultiMarkdown.  All styling is via plain old CSS with no external
dependencies.  The [flog POD](flog.html) has more information for the
morbidly curious.

MultiMarkdown's metadata facilities are more than enough to deal with
anything blogient: tags, dates, titles, etc.  This was one of the key
additions MultiMarkdown made to markdown and I think it is an
important one.  You can see what use I make of MultiMarkdown by
looking at any of the source files to the HTML on this site.  I leave
the source files in the web tree, since it causes no harm and may be
of interest to someone.  For instance, the source file for this page
is [about.md](about.md); note that this is the MultiMarkdown file that
flog *generated* from an input file.  The file inclusions and other
obvious boilerplate are added by Flog on the way to the docroot.  The
same pattern holds everywhere, with tiny exceptions here and there.
For instance, posts get summaries generated for them and tacked on as
head matter, while static pages only get an "Updated on ..." timestamp
added at the bottom.

*Updated on 2022-04-19*


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