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zbowlinglast Wednesday at 6:05 PM2 repliesview on HN

We forgot how to build websites like this. Lost art. Even the page is encoded iso-8859-1 and not UTF-8.


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NelsonMinarlast Wednesday at 6:13 PM

Unfortunately you can't spell Hawaiʻi in ISO-8859-1.

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freedombenlast Wednesday at 6:59 PM

Need to write a web extension to inject some javascript to show a loading screen for a few seconds and download a few MB of js so it feels like a modern website. Should probably wrap the whole thing in a SPA too so we have options in the future