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i can't believe it - went to bed last night with zero articles written on the new globaltalk.network kiki, and woke up this morning with 5 new articles!! you folks work fast 🙏

incredible to see it just --- working! my vile php demonolatry apparently worked

Mar 09, 2025, 15:43 · · · Web · 8 · 22

globaltalk kiki update: the site is now retina/hi-dpi display compatible for crispy pixelly goodness on any kind of display. you may need to reset your browser cache.

@vga256 Haha “vile php demonolatry” aka the #SmallWeb! All we need.

@pierrenick it's amazing that 2002-era technology is absolutely perfect for a job like this. this would have been a massive, complex thing to do with nodeJS/ruby/etc. it's under 2000 lines altogether, with zero external libraries.

@vga256 Giving me hope for the future of the Web, honestly!

@pierrenick it's such a perfect language for managing text on the web. everything i wrote is php4 compatible (~ 2000-2001), so this could easily run on a pentium 1 or powerpc server if someone really wanted to try. 😆

@vga256 I love the classic Mac look on this site. It’s delightful.

@dmnelson cheers! it's funny that black & white works so well to this day