sheep.horse

I did the same like 2 weeks ago. In Rust. ^^

I'm still trying to improve it a little. https://git.ache.one/dither/tree/?h=%f0%9f%aa%b5

I didn't published it because it's hard to actually put dithered images on the web, you can't resize a dithered image. So on the web, you have to dither it on the fly. It's why, in the article, there is some artifacts in the images. I still need to learn about dithering.

Reference: https://sheep.horse/2022/12/pixel_accurate_atkinson_dithering_for_images_in_ht.html

Cool links about dithering: - https://beyondloom.com/blog/dither.html - https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/the-art-of-dithering-and-retro-shading-web/

"I went a step further and designed my blog (https://sheep.horse/) not to use any third-party resources at all. This was easy for me because I am never going to make money from my ramblings about Rogue One or the last book I read."

We (Oh By)[1] did this as well - the difference being that there is probably a fair amount of money we will miss out on in the coming decade by making this decision.

It's an attack vector, it's user hostile, it's slow, it's fragile and it supports an industry that has only degraded the promise of the Internet.

It makes me happy to run a service that doesn't touch it at all.

[1] https://0x.co

None of the static-site generators I looked at really competed with WordPress on a feature-by-feature basis.

WordPress is easy to set up, supports users and comments (if you want them) and has a lot of really nice features and plugins. WordPress is also slow and a pain in the neck to maintain, but I can understand why people might think the tradeoff is worth it.

I also run my site[1] using my own custom-built generator and I haven't looked back, but even I sometimes miss the ease-of-use that my old WordPress site provided.

[1] https://sheep.horse/