Bringing back old-school web pins and buttons
Back in the not-quite-as-bad-old-days (at least as far back as the 90’s), every good website had a small “ad” gif that fans of the site could use as a colorful link. These are called “buttons” or sometimes “pins.”
You can see sites that collect these internet artifacts (both the good ones and boring ones) here and here.
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In my quest to find a nicer HTML layout for my site, I just found bloated JavaScript thigs and shitty Google Fonts
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Decided it was high time for a sitemap on mckinley.cc, hopefully made it a little easier to find. https://mckinley.cc/sitemap.html
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My kid just uncovered a bug in a program I wrote by grabbing my laptop and smacking the keyboard a bunch. Biological input fuzzing; a real-life chaos monkey.
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Well I’m happy to accept patches to linebanner if you’d like to add characters. :-) http://txtpunk.com/banner/index.html
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