How I fell in love with Gentoo Linux, and why you (probably) shouldn’t use it.

I’ve been using Linux for what is essentially my entire life. I was never satisfied with any distribution, mostly because they’re ultimately all pretty much the same with a different package manager and repositories. Gentoo changed that.

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WebDev Basics: Chapter 2, HTML basics.

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Formalities.

Welcome back! Last post, we talked about the different parts of a website. Today, we’re not talking about (much) theory, we’re going to get our hands dirty and deep in the code. Open up your editor of choice and get ready to write some copied code.

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WebDev Basics: Chapter 1, What Makes a Web Page?

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An Introduction.

You should have your development environment set up to follow this lesson. If you don’t, how about you go read up on the basics? Today, we’ll focus on what HTML really is, what it does, and how it allows us to represent web pages.

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WebDev Basics: Chapter 0, Introduction.

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An Introduction

Welcome here! This will be a series of posts dedicated to teaching Web Development. Over time, I’ve come to absolutely hate the culture around webdev, and for a very good reason. Micro-dependency culture paired with overcomplicated hyper-abstraction culture leads to a complete mess that is impossible to get into. I’ll try to fix that.

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