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All you may need is HTML

Readers occasionally request which static HTML generator is used by fabiensanglard.net , and if they can take the same stylesheet/ fonts to start their own blog. I usually send back the whole 134 lines of gen.php [1] and invite them to copy whatever they need to get started [2] .

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Recreating ANSI Art from a Screenshot

In the early to mid-90s, I ran a BBS out of my bedroom. It wasn’t very popular, but I did have a lot of time on my hands and I spent a lot of that time modding it. Initially, I wrote mods for myself, but eventually I started releasing them to other people. As a teenager, this was the first software that I wrote that…