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Welcome!
My name is Greg, and I'm the old computer nerd.
The label works in both ways: "old computer" nerd, and old "computer nerd". This site is basically my own little vanity project. It's purpose is to give myself an opportunity to stay familiar with basic HTML and CSS skills, as well as provide a personal/private space on the internet to share what I learn while pursuing my own hobby projects.
If you'd like to have a look around, click any of the platform buttons below.
What You're Looking At
This site is built primarily around the Apache2 Markdown module. It automatically renders markdown documents into HTML for display on your browser. The content you're looking at right now (not counting the header and footer) is nothing but pure markdown text. One of the nice features of the module, is that you can intermix HTML within the markdown, and it will "just work". What makes all this especially nice, is that it eliminates almost entirely, any need for PHP, Javascript, Typescript, or server-side perl or python to present the website to you. The only javascript this site uses (and it technically didn't need to) is highlight.js for code syntax colouring.
Where Are The Pictures And Videos?
This site is designed to be readable from the least capable of hardware. While it does employ some modern HTML5 gimmicks to give it a little panache, you should still be able to load it up in LYNX or even CURL one of its URLs, and be able to make sense of it. As such, I'll be keeping images and videos to an absolute minimum. For those of you on a modern browser, there is syntax highlighting, and very occasionally I may include an image that is absolutely necessary for an entry I post. But, for the most part, I'll post links to any heavy multimedia content that might be relevant. So, you can head over to the appropriate provider for that.