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feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 08:55:36 JST feld

I don't know how I've come to this but I now have a Makefile that asks questions and then uses an m4 template to spit out a structure of a Markdown blog post for Pelican

make and m4... in 2025... still working.

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  feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 09:01:06 JST feld
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  @mischievoustomato did we time travel back to 1978?
  
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  Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 09:01:07 JST Johnny Peligro
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  @feld the m4 isn't that old, cmon it came out last year!
  
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  Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 09:13:03 JST Johnny Peligro
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  @feld didn't m4 macs come out last year?
  
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  feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 09:13:38 JST feld
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  @mischievoustomato yeah but I was talking about this
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4_(computer_language)
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    M4 (computer language)
    
    m4 is a general-purpose macro processor included in most Unix-like operating systems, and is a component of the POSIX standard. The language was designed by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie for the original versions of UNIX. It is an extension of an earlier macro processor, m3, written by Ritchie for an unknown AP-3 minicomputer. The macro preprocessor operates as a text-replacement tool. It is employed to re-use text templates, typically in computer programming applications, but also in text editing and text-processing applications. Most users require m4 as a dependency of GNU autoconf and GNU Bison. History Macro processors became popular when programmers commonly used assembly language. In those early days of programming, programmers noted that much of their programs consisted of repeated text, and they invented simple means for reusing this text. Programmers soon discovered the advantages not only of reusing entire blocks of text, but also of substituting different values for similar parameters. This defined the usage range of macro processors at the time. In the 1960s, an early general-purpose macro processor...
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  Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 09:25:45 JST Johnny Peligro
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  @feld i know, I've used linux for 4 years 👉😎👉
  
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  Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 09:26:21 JST Johnny Peligro
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  @feld playing dumb is a skill that runs in the family ehehe
  
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  feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 09:26:22 JST feld
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  @mischievoustomato I should have grasped the joke earlier
  
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  feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 09:30:08 JST feld
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  @mischievoustomato I love that kind of humor, I was just distracted :)
  
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  Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 09:30:09 JST Johnny Peligro
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  @feld you don't know how funny it is to do this on purpose
  
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  feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 10:33:36 JST feld
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  @simondassow Sendmail still gives me the ick because it always felt like its guts were on display and it was NOT pretty
  
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  Simon Dassow (simondassow@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 10:33:37 JST Simon Dassow
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  @feld What's next? Setting up Sendmail again? 😂
  
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  feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 10:34:26 JST feld
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  make post && make publish
  
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  feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 10:39:16 JST feld
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  @fwaggle tbh when I have time I'm going to probably convert to an Elixir-based tool. I just got done rewriting my entire theme/template which I never did before and it will be trivial to convert to basically any other templating system
  
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  fraggLe! (fwaggle@moodoo.org)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 10:39:17 JST fraggLe!
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  @feld I'm also stoked to see people using Pelican in 2025. I would still be too, but the speed boost on Hugo when you have 1500 pages is too much to ignore.
  
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  Crispy Branzino (nimbius666@comp.lain.la)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 10:49:41 JST Crispy Branzino
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  @feld @simondassow sendmail is like the Dev team abandoned it.
  
  Postfix enjoyers however are a distillate of rich and pure autism in a world of discord and slack.
  
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