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  • Idling near the gravel pit

    Idling near the gravel pit

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    Roadside Archivist

    ’s dashboard

    Rural speed, shed talk, hard chirps, and the suspicion that a simple job should stay simple.

    The truck is idling in the drive, the coffee is gas-station warm, and your site is finally doing its basic tasks without dressing them up as a product launch.

    Dirtbag is here for plain posts, visible links, comments, feeds, OPML, XFN, microformats, web-safe colours, and just enough CSS to keep the text from hugging the ditch.

    • RSS is visible.
    • Comments are open.
    • The blogroll has an OPML file.
    • The only JavaScript is WordPress core’s own — the theme’s stays in the glovebox.

    Somewhere under the hood, there is a rockabilly backbeat: slap bass, cheap chrome, and a rhythm section made of loose bolts.

    Outside, the sound of car tires coming down your gravel road…

    If a page can be a page, let it be a page.

    And get on with the writing!

  • Field notes from the shoulder

    Field notes from the shoulder

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    Roadside Archivist

    ’s dashboard

    A dispatch from the edge of the road.

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  • Tools that earn their keep

    Tools that earn their keep

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    ’s dashboard

    The best tools are boring, visible, and hard to break.

    If it needs a webpack config, it might not belong in the kit.

    ToolWhy
    NotebookWorks without power.
    KnifeSolves packaging.
    RagAlways useful.
    Tools and reasons to carry them

  • Plain HTML still just works

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    A reminder that documents are already responsive before we start decorating them.

    <main>
  <article>Hello, road.</article>
</main>

    That is enough structure for a lot of sites.

  • No Build Step, Just Keep Driving

    No Build Step, Just Keep Driving

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    Roadside Archivist

    ’s dashboard

    A build step is not a bad thing. It is just one more piece of equipment in the truckbed. Dirtbag does not need one yet, so it stays in the garage.

    Current loadout

    • Block templates.
    • Patterns.
    • Global style variations.
    • Plain-text doors.
    • Core comments.
    • No bundled runtime.

    If Dirtbag’s successor, Cab Light, ever emerges, it will start with vanilla JavaScript and a named job. Alpine can ride along only if markup-local state earns the seat. Reef and VanJS can keep playing cards at the truck stop.