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@jamesog@mastodon.social - although I rarely post as I largely forgot about it :-(
I imagine if I found a decent iOS client I’d use it more. Does anyone have any recommondations?
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Toot! Is an excellent app for iOS, I’d highly recommend it.
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@freddyb@mstdn.io, but also stopped using it and forgot about it. Looking for recommended mobile clients as well.
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I use Tusky; it’s the best app I’ve used on Android. (though there’s not a ton of competition for that tbh)
It supports higher character limits and rendering markdown posts now; maybe it didn’t a while ago. Husky is most well-known for removing Tusky’s block on white supremacist instances.
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Tusky is specifically a Mastodon client while Husky is specifically a Pleroma client; you can of course use one with the other but they each add support for features implemented by their respective platforms before the other. For example, I just installed Tusky and it still has no reactions or chat while Husky does because both of those are Pleroma-specific.
Husky is most well-known for removing Tusky’s block on white supremacist instances.
I would argue that Husky should be known as a Pleroma client because that’s what it is.
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Nextcloud Talk Can Seamlessly Connect to Slack/Teams/Matrix/IRC and Dozen Other Services
That all sounds very interesting, but has the performance of Talk improved any over the last year or so?
Last time I tried it, for a group of 5 people, the performance was practically unusable and it was full of bugs.
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Moving this blog to a static site - this time I'm serious (because org-mode)
I honestly don’t understand why the author wants to move to a static site.
The reasons stated are basically
- different tech stack (Linux instead of *BSD)
- slight incompatibility with org-mode files
- maintenance overhead
To me, these don’t sound like unsurmountable problems. One can run WP on a BSD. I’m sure there’s a plugin for WP that can handle org-mode files, and one of the main complaints I’ve read about Hugo and Jekyll is the maintenance problems they bring.
The downsides seem to be
- risk losing comments/ have to roll your own
- RSS incompatibilities
- a hell of a lot of work that can be put into actually blogging
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I’ve recently moved from WP to Jekyll, but for different reasons than the OP. Ultimately it’s their decision what platform they use.
I can understand the maintenance argument, not with regards to WP, but WRT the stack WP sits on top of. However, the only thing they’re removing by switching to Hugo is MySQL and PHP. Two less software packages to manage, I suppose.
If maintenance is a problem, and they want to focus on writing, why self host at all? Why not go with something like Netlify or AWS Amplify?
It’s fun to tinker though. 😊
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Looks nice. I’m curious what does complying with the GPL3 license of SimpleCSS looks like for a site using it? I imagine if you just drop it in, it doesn’t effect your project but if you use a bundler to “compile” a final website artefacts perhaps it applies to the whole project?
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It’s more like a CSS snippet than a framework
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I’m totally fine diluting the meaning of framework like this.
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The definition of a framework according to the Cambridge dictionary is:
a supporting structure around which something can be built
I think this project satisfies that definition. Yes, software frameworks like Bootstrap are goliath, but that doesn’t mean something small like Simple.css can’t be a framework.
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The linked page doesn’t actually describe Simple.css as a framework, it describes it as a “classless CSS template.” I’ve made a suggestion to change the title of the link here to reflect that.
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I use Miniflux’s hosted service - https://miniflux.app/hosting.html
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Maybe because the dark mode is not that great for our eyes?
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Absolutely (and thanks for posting a link to my blog! :)) it’s not great for your eyes, but it’s about giving users the choice.
I don’t use dark mode 90% of the time, but from time to time it’s nice to have the ability to switch if you want to.
Plus, some people prefer it. :)
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I’m curious about the transition. How did you migrate all the WordPress blogs and pages? I’m interested in moving my WordPress monster and had thought about Jekyll in the past.. very interested in your experience there.
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Not the author, but there are plugins for exporting from WP to Jekyll, like this one.
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I feel like you spend an excessive amount of time on your website and the things that surround it. Not faulting you for it—just making an observation. Also £30 p/m for a website? That’s a lot of money.
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You really spent $30 a month on Wordpress plugins? wew
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I like the increase in personality and being a bit more open about yourself. Truly reminds me of the 90s web.
300kb is a lot in 90s terms though ;) I challenge you to dramatically reduce your website and will accept a challenge from you in return (mine is already quite slim. Less than 5kn iirc).
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Challenge accepted 😊 - https://gtmetrix.com/reports/kevq.uk/FxTCQvc3/
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If the site is about no JS, then what’s the point in having a bar that shows the page size? Is the size of the page somehow relevant to sites not running JS?
I get that this is a direct copy of sites like 1mb, 512kb and 200kb club, but I don’t get the focus on page size for this application. Surely there’s a better measure to add on the page?
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I also agree with the other comments here arguing that there are ways to judiciously use JS… however, JS usage is definitely overall ridiculous and out of hand and so I can’t resist pointing out that a particularly ironic metric to look at here would be Time to First Meaningful Paint, which AFAIK basically only exists because of dumb JS tomfoolery “booting” pages and filling in all the content client-side.
Maybe you could even have a second version of the page that would add (with red bars for “bad” or something) a few JS heavy sites to demonstrate just how dramatically improved TTFMP is on the no-JS sites?
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On one hand, I get that it’s nice to have a centralized place for comments, and not have to worry about spam (for the most part), but part of me wonders if there’s a better way to meet people in multiple places for comments.
Once I redo my blog, I want the comments section to be links to places like twitter, mastodon, maybe here or HN, where there’s an easy way to dialog for people who don’t want to be forced to make a GitHub account. Just a thought for people looking to have a third-party host their comments.
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Once I redo my blog, I want the comments section to be links to places like twitter, mastodon, maybe here or HN, where there’s an easy way to dialog
That doesn’t sound like it follows. If someone on Twitter comments on your blog will that be reflected to Mastodon? Will someone who then replies on Mastodon be able to reply? I suppose it’s true in the strict definition of dialog (i.e. two participants) for communication between you and one other person at a time but it sounds as if you’ll end up with a load of distinct views on different subsets of the comments that people interact with.
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I’ve had that in the past, where “comments” are pulled from multiple sources, like Mastodon and Twitter via Webmention. But I didn’t want all the noise on my blog posts, and I didn’t want to have to manage them (they come through as WP comments). This way, there’s a platform for people to discuss the post, without the extra headache for me of managing comments.
HN or here would be great alternatives to GitHub Issues, but I think it would have to be HN rather than here, as the topics are VERY focused here (that’s a good thing), so a general life update, for example, wouldn’t be appropriate to post here. So there would effectively be no comments on that post.
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looks similar to utterances
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GitHub does commenting reasonably well indeed, but I’m worried about adding even more dependencies on the centralized, commercial service belonging to Microsoft.
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It’s a “dependency” in that it’s
- A software implementation…
- …written by someone else…
- …that can change at any time, without your input
Something like a mailing list wouldn’t have this issue. Since many people don’t like the concept of “mailing lists”, simply including a
mailto:link at the bottom of the article and a link to the online list archives without including the words “mailing list” on your website should do the trick.Most commenting platforms require users to create an account with their email; if you require an email, you might as well use it.
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Oh this is a delightful redesign, so much more personality. How did you make these backgrounds?
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I’m @kev@fosstodon.org. I run the Fosstodon instance with my friend Mike. Fosstodon focusses on tech and open source software. We’re a friendly bunch…most of the time! 😊
https://fosstodon.org