You can now create .page.md files and use front matter to specify a layout template as well as any other props you want to pass to your layout.
(I’m working on the Kitten web site with docs, etc., so I thought I’d bite the bullet and add this feature this morning to make my life easier. Should make it easier to make this sort of site with Kitten in the future for everyone.)
So Kitten’s build process (i.e., the time it takes to build Kitten itself) takes ~0.7 seconds on my ~1 year old desktop (Ryzen 7 5700G 3.8Ghz) vs ~1.4 seconds on my ~3-year-old Starlabs LabTop (renamed to the Starbook thanks to a suggestion by yours truly but sadly, not quickly enough).
So, in summary, it’s bloody fast for something that results in a ~9MB bundle.
I find #NodeJS deprecation warnings hit the sweet spot between jarring enough to be annoying and not informative enough to be useful.
So, in Kitten, the first time you hit a deprecation warning, you get a message telling you there are deprecation warnings.
If you care, you can open the interactive shell and view the kitten.deprecationWarnings list, which will show you full details including the stack trace.
There might be space for a few people from outside the university to attend so if you want to drop by, make some noise and I’ll have a chat with the university.
Thanking @mirela for organising this and looking forward to hopefully meeting some of you in the Netherlands soon.
Wanted: personal websites (with curated collections of bookmarks/links to other websites) or link directories that are titled anything starting with the letters "W", "X" or "Z".
Why? To complete the alphabet, of course!
(in terms of the bukmark.club's directory index)
Depuis quelques années, une partie de la communauté internet se tourne vers des solutions plus simples et moins gourmandes en ressources, en réaction à ce que beaucoup considèrent comme l’« #emmerdification » progressive du web. Le protocole #Gemini a émergé comme une réponse prometteuse à ce besoin, mais après l’enthousiasme initial, une certaine désillusion semble s’installer [...]
Code drunk, debug sober. Bah! Just fixed three bugs after a pint of Tundra.
(This is in no way meant to be role model behaviour. There just happens to be a lovely pub by the seashore in Bray where you can sit outside and it’s a nice distraction in the evenings when the weather is good and I don’t feel I’ve done enough in the day* and need a change of scene.)
It doesn’t help that I never think I’ve done enough in the day. 🤷♂️
「 In the same time library books have seen a lot. They were touched by a lot of greasy fingers, seen a lot of toilets. Just look at those two. Both are still fully usable, despite the tired look. 」
Kitten now has a lovely new multi-page Settings screen and… drumroll… a new 🐢 interactive shell (REPL) for you to play with the running state of your Small Web site/app/place and debug your app, inspect/manipulate its database, etc.
I plan on recording demos of each of them tomorrow but you can play with them now.
And here’s a little tutorial to get you started with the shell:
「 I am proudly introducing the first Omake on this site: User Friendly Archive. This adds over 5000 subpages, so I am now a webmaster of a significant website. 」
How do you make a modern website? Like this. No JavaScript, no databases, no frameworks. Just plain, simple, accessible, and fast HTML. You’d be surprised what you can get for $5/month.
“The simplicity of HTML and CSS now feels like a radical act. To build a website with just these tools is a small protest against platform capitalism: a way to assert sustainability, independence, longevity.” — Jarrett Fuller
Sitting outside on a rare sunny day at a lovely pub in Bray, refactoring Kitten* to pull out the settings page sections into their own pages (and use Kitten’s new Streaming HTML workflow**) and enjoying a yummy pint of Tundra IPA.
I'm at an odd place with my personal website. Before Dec. 2023, it was a "professional portfolio" for my compositions. Now that I'm interested in the IndieWeb community, I want to make something more personal. I don't think I want to make two sites, but I do still need a portfolio for my composition work.
I just read @maggie's post on "digital gardens" and I really like that idea. (1/n)