「 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.
Also, not immediately relevant to your current issue but something that might be worth considering for the future: using the htmx websocket extension, you can basically implement a streaming HTML approach (example using Kitten: https://ar.al/2024/03/08/streaming-html/) where you can just stream errors to the page as they happen.
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.
The Evergreen Web section in Kitten’s¹ settings now has its own page too (and uses Kitten’s new Streaming HTML² workflow).
If you have the previous version of your site up somewhere, you can use the 404-to-307 technique³ to forward missing pages to your old site so as not to break the Web.
“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
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)
I definitely want to add more pages, and once I add dropdowns within the menus, that'll be easier to organize. My main thing is that I don't know how to strike a balance of "personal" and "portfolio" in the content I put on my site.
Does anyone else have experience/thoughts on this? (2/2)
Lots to do yet but the new Kitten¹ settings section (that’s common to all Kitten apps / Small Web places) is coming along nicely. (With the general style/layout borrowed from Domain².)
(It’s currently a single page and I’m breaking it up into multiple ones because it’s time.)
Once I’m done with this I should really record a screencast of Kitten’s new backup and restore feature/data portability.
Links pages and blogrolls were once building blocks of online communities of likeminded people, but began vanishing about fifteen years ago. But, along with a resurgent interest in personal websites, blogrolls are making a comeback, at least in indie and small web corners of the web.
I've just reactivated mine, after a long, long absence:
It uses the latest version of JSDB (5.1.3) which fixes an issue where instances of EventEmitter subclasses persisted to the database were erroneously persisting their (by convention private) _events arrays containing AsyncFunction instances and thereby causing a crash on the database open attempt when the AsyncFunction class could not be found as it wasn’t provided to the JSDB.open() method.
… JSDB, by the way, is short for JavaScript Database, which is, umm, a JavaScript database.
It’s an in-process, in-memory database for Node.js for Small Web use that persists to an append-only JavaScript – not JSON, JavaScript – transaction log.
JSDB’s very easy to work with because you just use native JavaScript objects and they just automatically get persisted for you.
e.g., Here’s a quick 6-line Kitten app that persists a counter:
Just published a minor update (version 5.1.1) to JavaScript Database (JSDB) that optimises the custom data type¹ serialisation code by removing a redundant return statement:
This change is backwards compatible and shouldn’t require and updates to your projects, including the ones you have in Kitten (which uses JSDB internally).
To follow through on my pledge to do more of my #internet reading on the #indieweb, I've been visiting random blogs using this site and adding any interesting ones to an #RSS feed.
My intention is to browse this feed much the same way I would the news -call it a self-care practice. I want to spend more time in reflection and less in panic. I also want to get ideas for, perhaps, my own blog someday.
If you’re frustrated about what the online world has become, and you remember “the good old days” with nostalgia (rightly or wrongly), and you despair about our collective ability to find a way forward, this by @molly0xfff offers an important perspective. With reason for hope. She has become an essential voice, along with @pluralistic and Jaron Lanier.