link the classic complaint against PHP

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 Historically, _The Scintillating But Ultimately Untrue Thought_ has not provided a comment section. There were two reasons for this.
 
 
 Historically, _The Scintillating But Ultimately Untrue Thought_ has not provided a comment section. There were two reasons for this.
 

-First, technical limitations, downstream of technical æsthetics. There are standard out-of-the-box blogging hosts—your [WordPress](https://wordpress.com/), your [Medium](https://medium.com/), _&c._—that are easy for anyone to use, at the cost of taking control away from the user, locking access to _your soul_ away on someone else's server, or, at best, obfuscated in some database behind opaque gobs of PHP. My real-name blog (started in December 2011, when I was much less technically adept) is still running WordPress, and I'm sad about it. In contrast, this blog is produced using the [Pelican](https://blog.getpelican.com/) static site generator from Markdown text files, [versioned in Git](http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git)—simple tools I _understand_, producing flat HTML files that Nginx can serve. When I don't like something about my theme or my plugins, I'm not at the mercy of the developers; I can just fix it myself. The lack of a database meant forgoing a comment section, but that seemed like a small loss, because—
+First, technical limitations, downstream of technical æsthetics. There are standard out-of-the-box blogging hosts—your [WordPress](https://wordpress.com/), your [Medium](https://medium.com/), _&c._—that are easy for anyone to use, at the cost of taking control away from the user, locking access to _your soul_ away on someone else's server, or, at best, obfuscated in some database behind opaque gobs of [PHP](https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/). My real-name blog (started in December 2011, when I was much less technically adept) is still running WordPress, and I'm sad about it. In contrast, this blog is produced using the [Pelican](https://blog.getpelican.com/) static site generator from Markdown text files, [versioned in Git](http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git)—simple tools I _understand_, producing flat HTML files that Nginx can serve. When I don't like something about my theme or my plugins, I'm not at the mercy of the developers; I can just fix it myself. The lack of a database meant forgoing a comment section, but that seemed like a small loss, because—

 
 Second, internet comment sections are _garbage_ and I don't want to be bothered to moderate one. I thought, people who are actually interested in replying to my writing can write a longform response on their own blog (please?—I'll link back), or on Reddit when I share to [/r/TheMotte](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/); and people who want to talk to me can find [my email address](mailto:ultimatelyuntruethought@gmail.com) (checked less often than my real-name email; I regret any delays) on [the About page](/about/).
 
 
 Second, internet comment sections are _garbage_ and I don't want to be bothered to moderate one. I thought, people who are actually interested in replying to my writing can write a longform response on their own blog (please?—I'll link back), or on Reddit when I share to [/r/TheMotte](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/); and people who want to talk to me can find [my email address](mailto:ultimatelyuntruethought@gmail.com) (checked less often than my real-name email; I regret any delays) on [the About page](/about/).