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alxd ✏️ solarpunk prompts<p>We could start with some of the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.art/@the_lemonaut" class="u-url mention">@<span>the_lemonaut</span></a></span> &#39;s art available at <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=The.lemonaut.ukr" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.</span><span class="invisible">php?search=The.lemonaut.ukr</span></a> , as well as with a few other artists I specifically commissioned under CC-BY-SA.</p><p>Technically I&#39;m thinking a <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/staticgen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>staticgen</span></a> with a public git repo, I just need to plan a good map for the site, between the gallery, articles and languages.</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/SEO" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SEO</span></a> will be important (if it&#39;s even doable in the age of AI).</p>
Tommi 🤯<p><strong>Looking for CMS advice</strong></p><p>Hey Web devs!</p><p>Do you have any suggestions, tips, opinions, dos, don’ts about <strong>headless CMS</strong>es?</p><p>I have a growing list of small/mid non-profits and collectives asking for my help to (re)make their website. I totally want to help, but I don’t have much time, especially considering that they generally have little or no funding—I would most definitely point them to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.village.one/@VillageOneCoop" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>VillageOneCoop</span></a></span>, otherwise.</p><p>Therefore, I want a super simple and replicable solution where I can copy-paste most of the code, while providing them with a stable, fast, and modern solution. I had a look at the <a href="https://jamstack.org/headless-cms/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Headless CMS section in the Jamstack website</a>, but I need opinions from people who actually used some of that software already.</p><p><strong>Needs</strong></p><ul><li>I want to code and configure everything using <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@eleventy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>eleventy</span></a></span></li><li>Admin interface (<a href="https://pan.rent/tags/WebApp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebApp</span></a>) for the client to add pages and write posts</li><li>Static website in the front-end</li><li>Simple and reliable CI/CD</li><li>No/minimal maintenance after the first setup</li><li>Self-hostable (I was taking this for granted so much that I forgot to write it)</li><li>If it requires forge integration, it should support <a href="https://pan.rent/tags/ForgeJo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ForgeJo</span></a></li><li><a href="https://pan.rent/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a></li></ul><p><strong>Nice to have</strong></p><ul><li>Possibly using <a href="https://pan.rent/tags/Deno" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Deno</span></a>, not <a href="https://pan.rent/tags/NodeJS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NodeJS</span></a></li><li>Allowing the client to customize a bit their website through the admin interface, with a GUI</li><li>CMS app packaged on <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.aquilenet.fr/@yunohost" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>yunohost</span></a></span></li><li>No CMS vendor lock-in</li><li>I’d love to write as little JavaScript as possible</li><li><a href="https://pan.rent/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSoftware</span></a></li></ul><p><strong>Absolutely not</strong></p><ul><li>Front-end <a href="https://pan.rent/tags/JavaScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JavaScript</span></a> frameworks</li></ul><p>Please, boost this and ask around! Links to videos, tutorials, and resources are welcome.</p><p>People whose perspective I would really value: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediverse.zachleat.com/@zachleat" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>zachleat</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@harryfk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>harryfk</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@deno_land" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>deno_land</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://indieweb.social/@jaredwhite" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jaredwhite</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://intuitivefuture.com/@vanillaweb" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>vanillaweb</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>stefan</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://front-end.social/@mxbck" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mxbck</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>WeirdWriter</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.wedistribute.org/users/deadsuperhero" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>deadsuperhero</span></a></span> (Sorry if I am spamming you!)</p><p><a href="https://pan.rent/tags/Eleventy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Eleventy</span></a> <a href="https://pan.rent/tags/11ty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>11ty</span></a> <a href="https://pan.rent/tags/CMS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CMS</span></a> <a href="https://pan.rent/tags/HeadlessCMS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HeadlessCMS</span></a> <a href="https://pan.rent/tags/Ghost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ghost</span></a> <a href="https://pan.rent/tags/DecapCMS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DecapCMS</span></a> <a href="https://pan.rent/tags/CraftCMS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CraftCMS</span></a> <a href="https://pan.rent/tags/Strapi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Strapi</span></a> <a href="https://pan.rent/tags/Web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Web</span></a> <a href="https://pan.rent/tags/WebDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebDev</span></a> <a href="https://pan.rent/tags/WebDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebDesign</span></a> <a href="https://pan.rent/tags/StaticGen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StaticGen</span></a> <a href="https://pan.rent/tags/StaticWebsite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StaticWebsite</span></a> <a href="https://pan.rent/tags/Website" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Website</span></a> <a href="https://pan.rent/tags/HTML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HTML</span></a> <a href="https://pan.rent/tags/CSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CSS</span></a> <a href="https://pan.rent/tags/YunoHost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YunoHost</span></a> <a href="https://pan.rent/tags/SelfHosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SelfHosting</span></a> <a href="https://pan.rent/tags/Wordpress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wordpress</span></a></p>
gohugoio<p>Hugo v0.122.0 just released! LaTeX or TeX typsetting syntax directly from Markdown using standard syntax ... and more.</p><p><a href="https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/tag/v0.122.0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/gohugoio/hugo/relea</span><span class="invisible">ses/tag/v0.122.0</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/staticgen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>staticgen</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/jamstack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jamstack</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/webdev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webdev</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/golang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>golang</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/latex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>latex</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/tex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tex</span></a></p>
alxd ✏️ solarpunk prompts<p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>writers</span></a> of Mastodon: can you recommend any <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/ux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ux</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/UXDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UXDesign</span></a> practices for designing a <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/multilingual" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>multilingual</span></a> / <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/i18n" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>i18n</span></a> blog?</p><p>I&#39;m writing my small <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/staticgen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>staticgen</span></a> at <a href="https://alxd.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">alxd.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> but I&#39;m seeing the limitations of my half-custom theme and Pelican engine.</p><p>Is there value to tags? A search function? <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/noJS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>noJS</span></a> ?</p><p>Is it better to have a homepage in one language? All languages? Dependent on user browser? Should un-translated posts show up in other langs?</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/blogger" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>blogger</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/webdesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>webdesign</span></a></p>
Théorie :verified:<p>There's a website proposing a vision for a sustainable <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/WordPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WordPress</span></a> <a href="https://oursustainablewp.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">oursustainablewp.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p>It's largely broken on my end, but interestingly it states that <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/staticgen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>staticgen</span></a> could be WordPress default.</p><p>(I had to print as PDF to read the full text though)</p>
Tommi 🤯<p>Hi <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@eleventy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>eleventy</span></a></span> lovers!</p><p>I noticed with great pleasure the introduction of a <code>Benchmark</code> label at the bottom of the <a href="https://pan.rent/tags/Eleventy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Eleventy</span></a> build logs. Nevertheless, I cannot really understand how to make use of it, or how to investigate what causes the long output…</p><p>Could you suggest any <a href="https://pan.rent/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>video</span></a> <a href="https://pan.rent/tags/tutorial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tutorial</span></a> or <a href="https://pan.rent/tags/article" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>article</span></a> which could help me out?</p><p>Thanks. lot!</p><p><a href="https://pan.rent/tags/11ty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>11ty</span></a> <a href="https://pan.rent/tags/benchmark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>benchmark</span></a> <a href="https://pan.rent/tags/SSG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SSG</span></a> <a href="https://pan.rent/tags/optimization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>optimization</span></a> <a href="https://pan.rent/tags/staticgen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>staticgen</span></a> <a href="https://pan.rent/tags/staticsite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>staticsite</span></a> <a href="https://pan.rent/tags/help" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>help</span></a></p>
Anke<p>In case you've always wanted to backup/store (some of) your <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> posts in a static site, you can now by using the import plugin for <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/Nikola" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nikola</span></a> I cobbled together:</p><p><a href="https://github.com/encarsia/import_mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/encarsia/import_mas</span><span class="invisible">todon</span></a></p><p>Blog post probably incoming later...</p><p><a href="https://octodon.social/tags/StaticGen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StaticGen</span></a></p>
Anke<p>Yay, I finally made one of these "Mastodon comments in your blog" solutions work (not that I've tried before...)</p><p><a href="https://log.bahnfreikartoffelbrei.de/posts/mastodon-comments/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">log.bahnfreikartoffelbrei.de/p</span><span class="invisible">osts/mastodon-comments/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://octodon.social/tags/StaticGen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StaticGen</span></a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/nikola" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nikola</span></a></p>
Anke<p>Embed <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/Pixelfed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pixelfed</span></a> posts via shortcode:<br><a href="https://encarsia.github.io/posts/embed-pixelfed/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">encarsia.github.io/posts/embed</span><span class="invisible">-pixelfed/</span></a></p><p>Thank you for your, ehm, participation <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@alm10965" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>alm10965</span></a></span> &amp; <span class="h-card"><a href="https://chaos.social/@esureL" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>esureL</span></a></span>.</p><p><a href="https://octodon.social/tags/staticgen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>staticgen</span></a> <a href="https://octodon.social/tags/nikola" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nikola</span></a></p>
olivia maia 🏳️‍🌈<p>dear tooting people, please please suggest me an open source <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ssg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SSG</span></a> taking into account:</p><p>1. i'm just a nerdy writer &amp; illustrator<br>2. i know html and css and some basic <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/javascript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>javascript</span></a><br>3. i want to abandon WP (<a href="https://oliviamaia.net" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">oliviamaia.net</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>)<br>4. i want to sell stuff but that can be done with simplecart.js<br>5. i need a blog and the possibility to have portfolio-like pages with different templates to show my work<br>6. i like tweaking templates to be the way i want them, so i don't mind code</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/staticgen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>staticgen</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/webdev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webdev</span></a></p>