[status@haverholm ~]$ The worst status site [Does that title deflate any self promo?]
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Updated March 15, 2025 02:10:38.

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Allan Haverholm
Malmö, Sweden

FAQ

> WHAT IS THIS?
It's my status page where I plunk down random thoughts.

> RIGHT, LIKE TWITTER.
Yeah, it's what I used to do on there and still do on Mastodon. Only here there is no timeline, just the latest update.

> SO WHERE ARE THE OLD STATUSES?
They aren't preserved onsite. Each new update overwrites the previous one.

> WAIT WHAT? DON'T YOU WANT TO KEEP THEM FOR POSTERITY?
Not really. There are plenty of sites and platforms that build up archives of your posts and statuses, this just isn't one of them. Try the Wayback Machine, some statuses get saved there.

You *can* save a snapshot to the Wayback Machine if you think I posted something particularly clever: SNAP!

> BUT THERE'S AN RSS OR SOMETHING THAT PINGS PEOPLE WHEN THE STATUS IS UPDATED, RIGHT?
Nope. The most dynamic thing about this site is pulling in status updates from a TXT file. It couldn't produce a feed if I wanted it to.

> THEN HOW WILL I KEEP UP WITH YOU?
Oh, check in here every once in a while. Bookmark the page if you're really keen. It's not going to be very high frequency (or maintenance).

> WHY WOULD YOU MAKE SOMETHING LIKE THIS?
For one thing, I wanted to use my limited skills to make the dumbest possible site, so I whacked this out over an afternoon while doing laundry.

This page also reflects my fatigue with current web publishing. When I started making my own websites in 2005, Wordpress was a simple blog engine, and I could hack my way through its PHP and CSS to make it do what I want. Whatever the hell Wordpress (and other bloated CMSes) is now, it's not for me. I like the small, lean, home coded stuff even if it takes me forever to type out a workable site. </rant>

> THAT IS SUCH A GEN X THING TO SAY.
Guilty as charged.

FAQ updated June 11, 2023 14:36:19.