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by gopher_space 828 days ago
I've been asking myself what I want out of visiting particular sites and what I need to get it. How far do I need to move from the command line to fulfill my goal?

At the browser level I've found myself wanting to reorganize layout quite a bit, and am starting to think about templating from a user perspective beyond light/dark theme. What assumptions am I making about intent in my work? How can I provide flexibility and when should I step back and just link a csv dump?

I think my ideal modern browser looks more like a crawler. Display of info loosely coupled to site content. All of the scripts I'd actually want to run pulled down on my side from public repos.

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Yes! The day I made my website serve a "posts.atom" file was the day I realized:

The posts.atom file has all my actual content.

What is the rest of my website for? Somehow I was tricked into writing it, but it's essentially a feed reader for a single feed.

Why can't I just serve a posts.atom and trust Firefox to know what to do with it? It already has a Reader mode.