How to simplify a program

Webdev

• logic

- everything mentioned below to 'filter out' requires too much logic

• robots.txt

- instructions for search engine scrapers
- which URLS the crawler can access
- so as to not overload the site with requests

• RSS

- No need for a YouTube and some social media accounts
- Notified of blog posts

• searchbars

- cat-v.org fake searchbar

• sitemap

- XML has its own sitemaps
- XML is used for RSS feeds
- XML makes information machine-readable. XML sitemaps provide search engines with an efficient list of the URLs on a site

• markdown

- Setex style headers ( using '=' sign several times under a header )
- atx-style headers, increment depending on no. of pound sign/hashtag 

• http/https

- [Dan Luu](https://danluu.com/web-bloat/)	
- someone linked cat-v on an arch linux forum, and this idiot started saying he wont click on it

• why dont people minify it more?

- its like painting your houuse and someone tells you, can do it better

• how to serve plain (.txt) with unicode?

- edit [httpd.conf, includes](https://mail-archive.com/misc@openbsd.org/msg169795.html)

• unicode

- in html you need to declare in a meta tag, charset = utf8

• markdown

- reference list, xetex style header?

• uses for server side scripting

- http://okturing.com/

UNIX

• origin of dot files?

• vim golf

• Why not scripting?

- GNU cat vs Plan9 cat