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bradley_taunton “Make” as a static site generator (2022)

I was instantly inspired by Karl's work on his "blog.sh" shell script[0] that he mentions in this article. I took it and tweaked it to create my own minimalist SSG called "barf"[1]. That wouldn't exist if Karl didn't share his wonderful work publicly!

[0]: https://github.com/karlb/karl.berlin/blob/master/blog.sh [1]: https://barf.bt.ht

bradley_taunton Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

https://bt.ht

bradley_taunton Tiny Awards for Small Websites

I’m sure this is in jest, but it truly is baffling that this purely informational webpage is so massive.

I believe the “small” web is more than being an independent entity and instead also should avoid wasted resources. Developers need to respect their end users’ bandwidth and time. Just my two cents.

bradley_taunton Open Suck: desktop installer for OpenBSD based on the suckless philosophy

Oh interesting! I’m going to have to look into that for sure. Thank you for the heads up, I didn’t know about this. Much appreciated!

bradley_taunton Open Suck: desktop installer for OpenBSD based on the suckless philosophy

Author here - it is true that you could avoid the need for vim or bash (I just personally enjoy having those in my toolset)

As for this:

> And apparently nobody's used this thing anyway, including the person who made it, because the scripts have an obvious bug in them that won't let them run on OpenBSD

I've used this installer on multiple machines (x260, x201, M73 Tiny) and am writing this comment on my X201 running OpenBSD via this installer _right now_. Could you elaborate on the bug(s) / even open a patch is that is the case?

Thanks!

bradley_taunton Show HN: Neat – Minimalist CSS Framework

Shameless plug for Vanilla CSS

https://vanillacss.com

bradley_taunton Show HN: 1Kb Webspace

Shameless plug - but feel free to add to the 1kB Club [0] once it hits the 1kB mark :)

0: https://1kB.club

bradley_taunton Ask HN: Share your personal site

https://bt.ht

Rambling about design, programming, hardware and Linux

bradley_taunton Ask HN: Preferred Platform to Blog

Sounds like prose[0]?

[0]: https://prose.sh/

bradley_taunton Ask HN: What search engines are you using?

LibreX

https://github.com/hnhx/librex/

bradley_taunton Ask HN: Where do you host images for your blog or landing pages?

This is a good workflow and pretty flexible. I would actually recommend NearlyFreeSpeech for hosting and BunnyCDN for caching etc.

Turns that $5/month to less than $3/month for low traffic sites.

bradley_taunton Digital Gardening

https://tdarb.org

bradley_taunton Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery

You are correct. I have updated the article to mention the almost 400kB JS used for the image gallery rendering. Also updated are the inclusion of interactive thumbnails and better UX wording to help users understand that the elements are "scroll-able".

bradley_taunton Google is shutting down Stadia

What a shame. The technology was fantastic. Good news about all the refunds but still sad.

bradley_taunton Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line

I saw this option in other forums when I was putting together this post, but it didn't work well for me (personally). Restarted my machine a few times and still wouldn't show the custom font in some applications. Went the `sudo` route and it worked the first time. YMMV.

bradley_taunton Setting Up Jekyll on Windows 10

It is incredible how I never came across this while setting up my environment. I might have been too specific with my searches based off Jekyll itself. Thanks for sharing this though - down the rabbit hole I go!

bradley_taunton Remotely Controlled Lawn Tractor

I have 1.2 acres and run the Husqvarna 450X on my property. The boundary and guide wires were embedded into the lawn itself.

Been running this mower for 5 summers now and little to no issues. Blades need to be changed every 2-3 months depending on conditions. Overall it has saved me probably hundreds of hours on manual mowing.

bradley_taunton A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page

Or just go absolute foolishly extreme and have your website under 1kB total ;)

https://1kb.club

bradley_taunton Shite: The little static shite generator from shell

Reminds me of my recent creation of a Pandoc based SSG that I use for my personal website.

https://pblog.xyz/

bradley_taunton Everyone should become an HTML expert (2021)

Agreed. That's why most times it should be avoided (for everyday users)

bradley_taunton Raw Text Club

That looks fantastic. I'm always a sucker for simplicity.

bradley_taunton Raw Text Club

You are correct - fixed! Also thanks for the kind words :)

bradley_taunton Raw Text Club

As mentioned previously it is odd that the page is rendered in HTML and not pure plain text.

For anyone interested in spinning up their own plain text blog/site, feel free to check out Shinobi (shameless plug)

https://shinobi.website

bradley_taunton Tiny human brain grown in lab has eye-like structures that 'see' light

Winter lanterns

bradley_taunton Design of This Website (2021)

Replying to my own comment for additional content:

I wrote about this "sticky" header problem back in 2019. Seems very relevant to this current discussion.

https://tdarb.org/blog/sticky-elements.html

bradley_taunton Ask HN: Share your personal site

I’ll share my very basic personal site/blog:

https://tdarb.org/

bradley_taunton Design of This Website (2021)

My point is that if it is built out in HTML - it should work on any device that can render HTML.

Many other art-based, photography focused and creative writing projects work fine in my browser. You seem to just be avoiding the removal of bad UX patterns (fixed elements) for personal reasons - which is fine.

But you shouldn’t hint towards the fact that it’s “how things are” and they “can’t be fixed”. You’re hurting user experience for personal preference - not limitations.

bradley_taunton Design of This Website (2021)

FYI - if you're on iPhone, you can simply tap the time in the top bar to instantly scroll to the top of any website you're currently viewing.

bradley_taunton Design of This Website (2021)

> Some devices just aren't suitable for some types of content

I think that’s rather dismissive when said content is simple text in the browser. Easy solution: don’t use fixed navigation - it is a very bad UX pattern for content/informational websites. That’s why scrolling exists. I assure you that users don’t require access to your menu 24/7 when reading through your website.

bradley_taunton Design of This Website (2021)

(Not OP) But I would point out the “fixed” elements used for the top and bottom bars eats away a large amount of real estate for users (I’m using an iPhone SE for reference)

Just my two cents.