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   a very weeny construct 💀 (pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.website)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 23:10:28 JST a very weeny construct 💀

   don't forget to

   m4_changequote(`⦕', `⦖')
   

   in your templates otherwise m4 might eat backtick and quote characters in your source code

   (any obscure character or set of characters works, that example is using U+2995/6 DOUBLE LEFT ARC GREATER/LESS-THAN BRACKET)

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 23:10:14 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     • dozens

     @dozens @pho4cexa @m455 I take no responsibility for this

     ok, maybe just a little responsibility

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     dozens (dozens@tiny.tilde.website)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 23:10:25 JST dozens

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     @pho4cexa @m455 oh yeah, learned that early on haha

     Now I know of THREE people who m4 their websites

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     m455 (m455@tiny.tilde.website)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 23:10:27 JST m455

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     @pho4cexa cc @dozens if you dont already know this tip, cause i think you like m4 haha

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 23:19:10 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     • dozens

     @dozens @pho4cexa @m455 ok but hopefully at the same time you were also ... warned about it too??

     like so you knew what exactly you were getting into

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     dozens (dozens@tiny.tilde.website)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 23:19:11 JST dozens

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     • tech? no! man, see...

     @technomancy @pho4cexa @m455 you are actually entirely responsible for my m4 adventures 🤣

     In fact I'm pretty sure you're the reason I even found out about m4 in the first place.

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 23:27:19 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     @dozens @m455 @pho4cexa adding a disclaimer to the top just to be safe: https://p.hagelb.org/Makefile.html

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     dozens (dozens@tiny.tilde.website)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 23:27:20 JST dozens

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     • tech? no! man, see...

     @technomancy @m455 @pho4cexa

     I mean, it's all right there in the manpage:

     "Some people find m4 to be fairly addictive. ... Beware that m4 may be dangerous for the health of compulsive programmers."