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title = "htmx lore"
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date = 2024-12-17
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updated = 2024-12-17
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[taxonomies]
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author = ["Carson Gross"]
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tag = ["posts"]
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<center style="padding: 12px">
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<img src="/img/i-lied.png" alt="I lied." style="border-radius: 32px; max-width: 100%">
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</center>
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For better or [for worse](https://x.com/IroncladDev/status/1866185587616596356), htmx has collected a lot of lore, mainly around [the twitter account](https://twitter.com/htmx_org).
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Here are some explainations.
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## It's So Over/We're So Back
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A common set of phrases used by htmx enthusiasts when, for example, [@bunjavascript told me to delete my account](https://x.com/bunjavascript/status/1708557665268568412)
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## htmx CEO
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At one point there was a hostile takeover attempt of the htmx CEO position and, in a desperate poison pill, I declared
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everyone CEO of htmx.
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[Turk](https://x.com/gitpush_gitpaid) created <https://htmx.ceo> if you want to register as a CEO.
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If someone emails hr@bigsky.software asking if you are CEO of htmx, I will tell them yes.
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You can put it on your LinkedIn, because it's true.
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## Laser Eye Horse
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At some point I photoshopped lasers onto a horse mask, as kind of an homage to [@horse_js](https://x.com/horse_js).
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For some reason it stuck and now it's the [official unofficial](https://swag.htmx.org/products/i-lied-sticker) mascot of htmx.
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## Spieltrieb
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Spieltrieb means "play instinct", and is a big part of the [htmx vibe](https://x.com/search?q=spieltrieb%20from%3Ahtmx_org&src=typed_query).
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## Pickles
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At some point someone (I think [@techsavvytravvy](https://x.com/techsavvytravvy)), generated [a grug AI image](https://x.com/htmx_org/status/1708697536587047142), and there
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was a pickle smiling in a really bizarre way in it.
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So we started riffing on pickles and now [there's a shirt](https://swag.htmx.org/products/htmx-pickle-shirt).
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Cry more, [drizzle](https://x.com/DrizzleORM/status/1757149983713665238).
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## XSS
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In July 2023, when htmx first got popular, there was a
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[moral panic](https://x.com/htmx_org/status/1683607693246775297) around
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[cross site scripting](https://x.com/htmx_org/status/1683529221195571200). I
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[may](https://x.com/htmx_org/status/1683607217499414531) have
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[overcooked](https://x.com/htmx_org/status/1683649190071791617) my
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[response](https://x.com/htmx_org/status/1683612179512057856) to
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[it](https://x.com/htmx_org/status/1683818711763877892).
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## Shut Up Warren
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[@WarrenInTheBuff](https://x.com/WarrenInTheBuff) is the king of twitter and we regularly fight with him. This often
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ends in someone saying ["shut up warren"](https://x.com/ThePrimeagen/status/1792564215749779515).
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You can see the htmx website do this by going to <https://htmx.org?suw=true>
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## Microsoft Purchase Rumor
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In mid-January of 2024 I got really serious with the htmx twitter account and started [quote](https://x.com/htmx_org/status/1745930477825868044)
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tweeting [things](https://x.com/htmx_org/status/1745915394626351315)
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[about microsoft](https://x.com/htmx_org). People started [worrying](https://x.com/SusSoftware/status/1746206195461878113). I announced a [license change](https://x.com/htmx_org/status/1746736273728094323)
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to get people freaked out about a rug pull.
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[I then changed htmx to BSD0](https://x.com/htmx_org/status/1746880860723544211)
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[This is the offer](https://x.com/htmx_org/status/1746895016256328079) I got from microsoft (real).
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## (same thing)
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I believe that [this tweet](https://x.com/htmx_org/status/1672264927136952322) is the origin of the (same thing) meme
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## Stronger Together
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In December 2023, I was trying to get some indonesian twitter users to take a look at htmx, so I created a
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["Montana & Indonesia, Stronger Together!"](https://x.com/htmx_org/status/1734371865156563428) tweet w/an AI image.
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This turned into a [whole series of tweets](https://x.com/search?q=%22stronger%20together%22%20from%3A%40htmx_org&src=typed_query&f=live).
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## Hinges
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Sometimes I am accused of being "unhinged" but, in fact, [I own many hinges](https://x.com/search?q=from%3Ahtmx_org%20hinges&src=typed_query).
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## \* library
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People often [call htmx a framework](@/essays/is-htmx-another-javascript-framework.md), but it's [a library](https://x.com/htmx_org/status/1848751101035827210)
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## "man"
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A common [one word response](https://x.com/search?q=%22man%22%20from%3Ahtmx_org&src=typed_query&f=live) when i don't feel like
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arguing with someone.
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## The Le Marquee d'<something>
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In December 2024, I [added a marquee tag](https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx/commit/2b88d967c19619281228d1bf5398751615bdf462) to
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the htmx website and started using the honorific (sic) in my twitter title.
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## htmx sucks
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I wrote an essay called [htmx sucks](@/essays/htmx-sucks.md) in which I criticize htmx (some valid, some tongue in
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cheek, most both.) I also released [a mug](https://swag.htmx.org/products/htmx-sucks-mug) that I will often link to when people are criticizing htmx.
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## Jason Knight
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Jason Knight [hates htmx](https://x.com/JasonKn99664124/status/1731555036864381251) and wrote a
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[great post](https://archive.is/rQrl7) about it.
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Please don't harass him, [I draw energy](https://x.com/htmx_org/status/1756476449693872635) from his posts.
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## Drop Downs
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In July 2023, sparked by the accusation that htmx users could not create dropdowns, I did a deep-dive into web
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drop down technology and [uncovered a bombshell](https://x.com/htmx_org/status/1684936514885869568)
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## "htmx is a front end library of peace"
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A phrase I will often [quote tweet](https://x.com/search?q=htmx%20is%20a%20front%20end%20library%20of%20peace%20from%3A%40htmx_org&src=typed_query&f=live)
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violent htmx-related imagery with.
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## The Process ™
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[The Process™](https://x.com/htmx_org/status/1697651918858764375) is the mechanism by which people initially hostile
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to htmx come to be enlightened.
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## "that's ridiculous"
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In [June 2023](https://x.com/htmx_org/status/1807183339222405317), [@srasash](https://twitter.com/srasash) accussed
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htmx of being a government op, the first in many such increasingly ridiculous claims. I typically quote-tweet these
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claims and point out that ["that's ridiculous"](https://x.com/search?q=%22that%27s%20ridiculous%22%20from%3A%40htmx_org&src=typed_query&f=live)
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## Grug
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I created <http://grugbrain.dev>.
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## The htmx/intercooler.js feud
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The htmx & [intercooler.js](https://x.com/intercoolerjs) twitter accounts often fight with one another. Sometimes its
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just me [switching back and forth](https://x.com/intercoolerjs/status/1859652045399355559), but two other people have
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access to the intercooler account, so sometimes I have no idea who I am fighting with.
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## If Nothing Magically Works
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Nothing [magically breaks](https://x.com/htmx_org/status/1729870461864226829).
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## /r/webdev
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I was very unfairly given [a lifetime ban](https://x.com/htmx_org/status/1719687461385691283) from
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[/r/webdev/](https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/) for an
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[obviously satirical post](https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/17i0loi/anyone_heard_of_htmx/). My understanding
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it that even the term "htmx" is banned (or semi-banned) on that sub.
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## "looking into this"
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[idk](https://x.com/search?q=%22idk%22%20from%3Ahtmx_org&src=typed_query&f=live), I just think [it's funny](https://x.com/search?q=%22looking%20into%20this%22%20from%3Ahtmx_org&src=typed_query)
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## "Look at this nerd ragin'"
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A common phrase used to [mock people (including ourselves)](https://x.com/search?q=%22Look%20at%20this%20nerd%20ragin%27%22%20from%3Ahtmx_org&src=typed_query) with.
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## Joker/Bane/Skeletor/Thanos, etc.
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htmx is a [villian](https://x.com/htmx_org/status/1651698199478796292) in the front-end world, i'm good w/that
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