interesting developments over at @observablehq!

https://observablehq.com/notebook-kit/

- open file format for Observable notebooks
- support for static site generation
- native macOS app for editing local notebooks

this ticks a lot of boxes on my end. very exciting! can't wait to try this

So I've decided to join the 90's and do a blog. I have a domain, looking for a host. Cheaper = better, up to a point. Any ideas?

Must haves:

(1) Markdown support
(2) Math typesetting
(3) Good tagging
(4) RSS support (multiple RSS feeds by tag preferred)

I've tried static sites and I've not gotten very far.

I'm open to static - that IS probably best for my needs - but DIY static hasn't worked.

Boosts for visibility appreciated.

Static Web Methodology as a Sustainable Approach to Digital Humanities Projects

https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/18372

Написал тут «небольшой» пост про свой Emacs-плагин, с которым можно писать посты в статический блог на OrgMode, без всяких этих ваших Markdown'ов и веб-редакторов

https://eugene-andrienko.com/it/2024/12/01/emacs-plugin-jekyll-blog

@ru @rf

hey digital cultural heritage bubble, does anybody know how to freeze an @Omeka instance and turn it into a static version that can be archived and made available for the long term? ideally this would not involve crawling the site, which seems somewhat error-prone…

all pointers and boosts appreciated

#Omeka #OmekaS #OpenGLAM #CulturalHeritage #StaticWeb #ProjectEndings #EndingsProject #FediHelp

/cc @nfdi4culture

Speaking of #staticweb stuff, is there any particular static site generator you'd recommend for a company website that's currently built using Wordpress and a static page generator plugin?

It's basically a blog + some pages. If it were possible to pull in CSS from the Wordpress theme, that'd be awesome, but re-coding the theme is also a possibility.

Does there exist a PHP search feature/library that I can just bolt onto a #staticWeb site?

Two use cases:

1. My spouse has a backup of a forum that only runs on dangerously old PHP versions, and I'd like to write a script to generate a very basic site that just lets you read the posts and search them.

2. I work for a company who's public facing site is made with a static site generator. A bunch of new content was added recently, so a search tool would be nice to have.

I'm increasingly enamoured by things like @freebliss 's #Faircamp (a static site generator for audio - a self-hosted Bandcamp, if you will) and #Fgallery (a static site generator for images). I'd be interested in something similar for video content, if anyone has any suggestions.

I'm currently working on improving a Pinterest-alike, partly for my own purposes and partly to improve my Python skills. It's not static, of course, bu it's a self-hosted, small-scope thing.

@adele I’m not sure I’m confusing the words necessarily, though language is of course not static. I heard about #SmallWeb from this article: https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/ which is what I’m basing my definition on. #IndieWeb from what I can find is a community building tools empowering people to own their social networking data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndieWeb

Are #SmallWeb and #SmolWeb synonyms?

A static site generator can generate sites with JavaScript on them for instance. This is static for the server to host, but I don’t think a site is 100% static if it gets mutated on the client.

That would be my distinction between #SmallWeb and #StaticWeb anyway. :)

Back in the day when you wanted to know about your website traffic, you'd use a web log analyzer.

I maintain a few static web sites and I'm wondering what the current best practice there is.

Is analyzing web logs still a thing people do? Are there web log analyzers that are particularly well regarded? Is there some other process people prefer now?

Please recommend a light-weight web browser for static sites with the following features:

1)Lightweight layout engine: not one of the Big Three.

2)Dark mode: I need all pages to show a dark background (preferably true black) with light text. No exceptions. If I encounter a page with light-themed CSS, I want some feature equivalent to the Dark Reader extension that major browsers have.

3)Graphical: I want to be able to navigate with a mouse, not just a the terminal.

4)Not developed primarily by a bigot. So no Pale Moon (and Pale Moon's Goanna engine isn't really lightweight, it's just slightly less heavy than the big three).

Also note that I'm specifically looking for a web browser with these criteria: for Gemini/Spartan/similar protocols I already have Lagrange.

#WebBrowsers #StaticSite #StaticWeb #StaticWebsite #LiteBrowser #LightweightBrowser #Web1 #Web1_0 #Smalnet #Gemini #GeminiProtocol #Spartan #SpartanProtocol

at the #CrossingFonds symposium, Joey Takeda (SFU) just gave an interesting talk about long-term sustainability of the web-based results generated during #DigitalHumanities projects.

a key take-away is to make sure that all results are made accessible for any type of web server—and the key to make this practically happen is to make it "static from the start".

The Endings Project spells out some more useful principles and recommendations:

https://endings.uvic.ca