Neocites…

As this website is being created, I look at Neocities for stealing seeing other people's source code. I look at these websites of my fellow netizens,^[1] and I cringe. Why is the Internet so gay?

I suppose that's the kind of people the Internet attracts. Outsiders.

But what's really weird is this void of regular^[2] websites. A majority of the websites I see have some sort of queer, pagan (satanic), or degenerate theme to them. Some diversity alright…

Creating a Static Site Generator

Currently, I am developing a static site generator in C. Why? Because I want to. I'm currently writing this in HTML right now, but in the future, I hope to be using my tool to create these posts. It's going to be very similar to other static site generators. You write some Markdown, use a template, and compile the webpages. The hard part is just establishing the data structures and algorithms for actually implementing each step of the program. I need to parse Markdown, parse some made-up template syntax, and output a formatted HTML file. I'm not sure on how I add the CSS (and possibly JavaScript), or even how the template system will work — and I'm currently only focused on implementing a lexer — but I have high hopes for this project's success.

Unicode encoding is such a hassle in C.

I need to use Unicode for reading Markdown files, because they could contain Unicode characters, especially emojis. But I honestly don't want to deal with Unicode, but perhaps I should still try to wrestle with it; for learning purposes. Anyway, I'm using this library for my project. Now I can actually work on implementing the fun stuff.

Unfortunately, I cannot talk about implementing this so called "fun stuff," because I have yet to even begin implementing it. I still have research to do about lexical analysis and tokenizing. From what I understand, a lexer/tokenizer takes in some string and outputs a sequence of tokens: string-slices with a specific meaning attached. For example, if my program comes across a "# " (a hash and a space) on a new line, it can generate a string-slice pointing to that hash and space (perhaps lengths 6 to 7^[3]) and use a case statement to determine what meaning it has; in this case it's a level one heading. With "#" (a single hash), it's very different. Because there is no space after the hash (and instead, probably some word like "politics"), my program will safely assume that it's a tag, rather than a level one heading.

Short Thoughts About Monarchy

Monarchy is an interesting structure of government for me. Some may see it as primitive. I see it as exotic. Attractive, even. I have this (conspiracy) theory that the Enlightenment in the 17^th to 18^th centuries was not actually a period of enlightenment. If anything, it was foolish wisdom.

I believe that monarchs are more likely to rule better than the general populus (i.e., democracy), because common sense says that one person is more likely to be good than a collection of people. I am reminded of a quote:

The average person is dumb. Note "average person;" this means that around half of the world's population is even dumber.

Now even though monarchs are better rulers than the people, the Orthodox Church is neutral to it — actually to all forms of government, as long as the government doesn't hurt the Church and the human being.

Still! State governments should mirror the heavenly government. The heavenly government has a Monarch (God), ranks of angels and saints (aristocracy), and the people on earth (peasants). Heaven is a kingdom, not a democracy.

What's super interesting is what St. Peter says. In 2 Peter 2:19, St. Peter talks about worldly liberty and how its promise actually creates "slaves of corruption" out of its followers. In other words, liberty is not found in saying "there is no such thing as sin." Coming to the conclusion of no moral restraints brings in the worst kind of slavery: slavery to your passions and your ego. True freedom is freedom from sin. The only way to achieve such freedom is through Jesus Christ. As Christians, we are called to live in an impure world as lights of purity. Put simply, true enlightenment is found in God, not in The Enlightenment. One may even say true enlightenment is found in God, state, and race — more so God than anything; which reminds me of Corneliu Codreanu's views.

Monarchy in the 21st century: an interesting return to tradition, indeed.