@Dilbert@feeds.twtxt.net (#lbto4ga) Okay that was brilliant.

@prologic @movq @adi (#fw4vzga) Void Linux is actually my main OS, good little distro though the repo mirrors can be a bit out of sync sometimes

(#h5mkvja) Woops!

@adi @mckinley (#gmlphva) wrt single quotes , for example inside meta tags, I just use ".

@adi (#gmlphva) I agree with @mckinley in regards to mkws being fine the way it is. For mine it also helps differentiate it from all the other SSGs out there.

(#juf7kpa) @prologic Haha yeah I hear ya. In my case it’s simply twts I don’t want to forget about that have helpful hints, I guess in this case really about coding matters. That’s probably the main thing one could draw from it!

(#ii5fobq) The purist in me still wants to properly learn good old C before thinking about Go.

(#e6gh33a) Yup, almost feels like they’re insulting our intelligence.

@lobste_rs@feeds.twtxt.net (#q2v7urq) Interesting. Anytime Google and the word privacy are mentioned in the same sentence I can’t help but be skeptical though.

@prologic @adi (#msgkguq) to me it’s one of those “because you can” kinda thing

(#p24jahq) but yes, looking forward to the rebranding 👍

@prologic (#p24jahq) i would like to host my own pod at some point. Not sure how the migration would go but with the simplicity of twtxt.txt I imagine if wouldn’t be hard.

(#p24jahq) it’s all good mate. I wasn’t even worried, I think because A. you’ve mentioned it’s self hosted before and B. overall yeah we’re decentralised. It’s nice not having that anxiety one might get from a big silo when they have downtime, wondering if they’ve finally kicked the bucket and all your data is gone.

(#hvygjbq) I like it, very Suckless

(#cqzsjsq) @adi Awesome!

@adi (#cqzsjsq) I actually think mkws would handle that many articles quite well, as long as no inefficient loops are used like I did with my twtxt.txt parsing originally.

@adi (#cqzsjsq) Markdown with some sort of custom front matter. Not quite YAML but in that style.

(#cqzsjsq) @adi True, on the name.
As for what’s preventing me, just time and being prepared to switch a few things up. The existing site has a few things going on with the current CMS like auto-generating thumbnails, image resizing, a search function plus about 217 articles to convert over.

(#cqzsjsq) @adi Speaking of that site, it currently runs on the flat file PHP Kirby CMS but one day I hope to convert it over to something like mkws.sh, which should be interesting. The current CMS makes liberal use of front matter etc.

(#cqzsjsq) @adi It can do if you make the writing structure a little more rigid and deliberately make the first paragraph as a kind of intro to the article, etc. It’s pretty much what happens on my site The Linux Rain.

(#cqzsjsq) @adi Yeah not a bad idea. Admittedly sometimes I make my meta descriptions a little bit personalised and not really anything to do with the first paragraph, but your way is probably more proper.

@adi (#cqzsjsq) yeah I prefer not using front matter too, even to the point where I used the external meta files as you know. Which isn’t perfect but I preferred that than adding an extra thing to separate and process in the one file.

(#ii5fobq) I assume you were meaning to tag @adi ?
But yes, his mkws.sh is great 🤘 It’s minimal but powerful because of pp and all the things you can do using the shell and UNIX-type programs.

(#cqzsjsq) interesting… spaces and everything. I can see this would be easy to parse.

@adi (#jtlwm3q) nice thanks man, I’ll definitely bookmark those.

(#uwzfcba) fantastic article !

@jlj@twt.nfld.uk @adi (#jtlwm3q) yep I can relate to the satisfaction. For my own purposes as least, I’ll never use WordPress again.

@prologic (#qojxy3q) good luck mate!

Another anti web bloat article I enjoyed: Website Obesity