chewing_beverhi everyone! i set my site up about a week ago & i just wrote a post describing my current workflow, if possible i'd love to get some input on my workflow (or my site, always happy to hear), thanks :) https://rustybever.be/workflow/
jamietannaGood stuff chewing_bever, that sounds good :) I'm at the point now with my site where I'm needing to migrate away from static sites / Hugo as my site takes several minutes to build 😬
jamietannahttps://gitlab.com/jamietanna/jvt.me/ has 30,000 files in it, of which 18,000 are content and ~12,000 are contextual info. Doesn't help that the CI nodes I can run on generally have poor IO so the build is slow. On my laptop, with NVMe, it's only ~60 seconds
aaronpki used to store external posts separately but i switched back to embedding it in the post itself. just seems easier to keep everything self contained
aaronpkyeah that's basically how mine works. my reply post is created with just the URL of the thing i'm replying to, then later it goes and fetches it and expands it and replaces the URL with the full post contents
aaronpkif that fetch fails for some reason then i'm left with just the URL and that's why you see some of my replies show just a URL instead of the full reply context
@toyinariyo66↩️ I guess the main part I find confusing is setting it up with GitHub Pages as there are loads of plugins like the WebMentions plugin and Syndication Links plugin there's only a certain amount of themes. How do you set up Bridgy to crosspost Twitter and GitHub Pages? (twitter.com/_/status/1511365828125544450)
[manton]I wonder why people think they should migrate from Twitter all the way to GitHub Pages. That’s essentially going from least complicated to most complicated.
aaronpkhonestly i wish github pages and static site generators didn't have so much mindshare. they are not simple and often not the best option for anything besides infrequently changing websites
[manton]Yeah, GitHub-based static sites definitely have their benefits but integrating Micropub and Webmention will be a stumbling block for most people.
[manton]Exactly. So if someone is going to hit that roadblock, might as well focus on easy posting and custom domain name first, rather than get derailed right away.
LoqiIndiekit (GitHub repo) is “a small but powerful server that acts as the go-between your website and the wider independent web” https://indieweb.org/Indiekit
[tantek]1static files make people feel safe (about their storage, content etc.) and are widely understandable (every computer has files), whereas there is nothing "safe" feeling about setting up/using/migrating a database
[tantek]1so when people leave Twitter because they have a loss of trust & safety, they are motivated to solve *those* problems/feelings: trust & safety. static files feel VERY trustworthy & safe
[schmarty]Building interactivity around a static site generator feels like a heavy lift at times but it pretty much always fails well. Maybe I break something by and some update or new post doesn't show up on my site. Even in the worst case my site is still up and available!
[KevinMarks]Really deep dive into how the M1 CPUs based on measurement, testing and patents by Maynard Handley (who I know from Apple ~ 20 years ago when he was doing deep optimisation work and suggesting new CPU instructions to help it) https://github.com/name99-org/AArch64-Explore