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Re:“Make” as a Static Site Generator by SoftTalker on Sunday September 10, 2023 @05:53PM (#37460464)
A lot of older unix software config is complicated and cryptic.

sendmail, bind, apache, older X11, sudo are examples that come to mind.

Re:“Make” as a Static Site Generator by gjvc on Thursday September 14, 2023 @03:48AM (#37506137)
no shit. not everything is yaml and emoji status lines.

but that's got nothing to do my mistake of using M4 when better tools existed.