From 5ad2cb5fd0ff73db8263dda792e69508873f1de2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sam Anthony <sam@samanthony.xyz>
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2022 18:17:12 -0230
Subject: add index page

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 htdocs/index.html | 101 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 100 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'htdocs/index.html')

diff --git a/htdocs/index.html b/htdocs/index.html
index ac2f7a6..e02436e 100644
--- a/htdocs/index.html
+++ b/htdocs/index.html
@@ -1,3 +1,102 @@
 {{ define "body_content" }}
-	<p>Hello, world!</p>
+	<header>
+		<h1>Why This Site Exists</h2>
+		<hr>
+	</header>
+
+	<p>
+		Most of the modern Web sucks. This is my futile attempt at changing that.
+	</p>
+
+	<p>
+		Many sites these days try to solve problems that don't exist using improper
+		tools and techniques to do so. The classic example is JavaScript;
+		client-side scripting can be quite useful <em>in certain situations</em>.
+		The problem, however, is that most situations are not these situations.
+	</p>
+
+	<p>
+		The vast majority of websites could be simple HTML( + CSS) pages and gain all
+		the benefits that go along with that, namely <em>simplicity</em>,
+		<em>speed/performance</em> and
+		<a href="http://harmful.cat-v.org/Blog/2015/04/24/0/">
+			<em>reliability</em></a>.
+		Instead, people choose to complicate things.
+	</p>
+
+	<blockquote><p>"Install this plugin!"</p></blockquote>
+	<blockquote><p>"Use this framework!"</p></blockquote>
+
+	<p>
+		Rather than fixing the underlying problem by stripping back the layers to
+		find that we really just want to render some HTML, we instead pile more
+		on top, obscuring and worsening whatever problem we think we're trying to
+		solve.
+	</p>
+
+	<blockquote cite="https://suckless.org/sucks/web/">
+		<p>
+			"Millions of jobs are based on outputting HTML in an inefficient way."
+		</p>
+		<p>&mdash; <a href="https://suckless.org/sucks/web/">suckless.org</a></p>
+	</blockquote>
+
+	<p>
+		Some common excuses for "I need to use x:"
+		<ul>
+			<li>
+				"It's responsive"
+				<br>
+				<p style="margin: 0px;" class="hanging-indent">
+					Setting this meta tag:
+					<code data-lang="html">
+						<span class="t">&lt;<span class="e">meta</span>
+							<span class="an">name</span>=<span class="av">"viewport"</span>
+							<span class="an">content</span>=<span class="av">"width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"</span>&gt;
+						</span>
+					</code>
+					along with some very basic CSS is all that's required for a
+					responsive site that looks good on any screen.
+				</p>
+			</li>
+			<li>
+				"It looks nicer"
+				<p style="margin: 0px;" class="hanging-indent">
+					Java<em>Script</em>. Cascading
+					<em>Style</em> Sheets. See the problem?
+					Don't use scripts for styling. Also, no, it doesn't look nicer.
+				</p>
+			</li>
+			<li>
+				"It's makes for a better user experience"
+				<p style="margin: 0px" class="hanging-indent">
+					If you like waiting seconds for a page to load before scrolling an
+					entire screen height with a parallaxed background just to read two
+					words then yes, that is a good experience.
+					Personally, I would rather not have to hover my cursor through a maze
+					of eight nested, animated drop-down menus while being bombarded by
+					popups asking for personal information and telling me that the site
+					uses
+					<a href="https://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2010/10/http-cookies-or-how-not-to-design.html">
+						cookies</a>.
+				</p>
+			</li>
+		</ul>
+	</p>
+
+	<header>
+		<h1>What Can We Do?</h1>
+		<hr>
+	</header>
+
+	<p>
+		Start your own website where you can complain about stuff too! Anyone can
+		and everyone should. With
+		<a href="https://landchad.net">all the information that's out there</a>
+		it's never been easier to help fix the Web by creating your own site.
+
+	<p>
+		You can read the boring technical details of how this site is implemented
+		<a href="/software/samanthony.xyz">here</a>.
+	</p>
 {{ end }}
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