noammitski wrote at July 7, 2021, 5:59 PM

additionally, i'm glad to say you're not alone in this. Project Gemini is a protocol that builds on the ideas from the Gopher protocol, both of which address the whole bloated web issue. also, on our web we have movements like: 250kb club

emma wrote at July 7, 2021, 6:59 PM

happy that i can access vital services, like motherfuckingwebsite dot com, on my wii

noammitski wrote at July 7, 2021, 11:13 PM

just trying to be of some help lol

twovests wrote at July 8, 2021, 6:32 AM (edited at July 8, 2021, 6:32 AM)

Oh I have heard of all these!

Also, I just checked, my personal website would qualify for this club. I feel special indeed. (^:

noammitski wrote at July 8, 2021, 5:57 PM

currently refactoring mine to fit! it's funny because i had gone through several frameworks to make my stuff, realized it was creating bloat so i made my own static site generator and learned so much. i think everyone should try to learn about how to make software more accessible, you pick up so much understanding about how things work.

twovests wrote at July 13, 2021, 4:36 PM

!!! I did this too! It was pretty educational and fun. What is your software stack? I'm just using Apache + Nginx to host the site, and Bash + Python + Pandoc to generate the site from markdown. In retrospect, markdown doesn't save that much time over raw HTML so I think I'd just use that in the future.

noammitski wrote at July 14, 2021, 4:34 PM

stack:

Ngnix on a Raspberry Pi
Deno and Bash to generate static pages

it's funny, i found the same to be true about markdown so now i basically just write HTML and serve that plus some metadata into .ejs templates. for certain use cases markdown is really clutch (i like to collect quotes and words each month) but for most other things it's just not worth the fuss. with vscode i can use the liveserver extension to do live reloading but i kinda wanna keep adding some more functionality to the project.