I really like the concept lets say you want to include a code snippet does it support the syntax highlighting and do you write a blogpost in plain html or markdown
Tiny websites are great
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#12I think a better term should be lightweight, usable and performant. The framework shaming mentality is getting quite old.
Also, the portfolio website of the author is the opposite of tiny, with a 3.6mb load.
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#13I was nodding reading this and then: > No libraries or frameworks (the exception being analytics) There has got to be a better way of collecting analytics than to inject a bunch of crappy JS from some company (probably Google).
with static sites server-side analytics are doable. You can still cookie the browser, record it to access log and you can get pageviews and uniques easily
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#14I really like the concept lets say you want to include a code snippet does it support the syntax highlighting and do you write a blogpost in plain html or markdown
You can always write in Markdown, say with iA Writer, then export to HTML. I typically write offline, then type and revise on the computer, then copy paragraphs over to Sublime. Code snippets and syntax highlighting done with CSS.
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#15"Did Not Connect: Potential Security Issue" How do you visit this site?
I got that, but it was from the office firewall considering it to be a malicious site
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#16I love this initiative in principle, but the instructions left a rather sour taste in my mouth. Create a Firebase app, download and install Node and run some arcane cli commands? For what? To upload a 10-byte HTML file somewhere?
Please, do yourself and us a favour and sign up for a free account on https://neocities.org, and make a quirky website by hand for all of us to enjoy.
I half want to write a post like this but with dead-simple instructions, like "Open Notepad, write Hello!" inside and upload it to Neocities. Congratulations, you now have a website!"
A good addition would be a nice CSS stylesheet (https://newcss.net/ looks good, linked by sdan in his comment here) to get the site looking nice and mobile-friendly. That's pretty much all you need to make a simple website.
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#17"Did Not Connect: Potential Security Issue" How do you visit this site?
It worked fine for me, and judging from comments on this page that respond to the article not just the title, for many others.
If you see this message in Firefox for many sites (try some random sites you rarely visit) it's probably a local problem such as "Anti-Virus" software or a "security" appliance helpfully making stuff unsafe. Get rid of them if possible.
It is possible that, as the message says, there's actually "Possible Security Issue" just for you, or some subset of visitors, and we can't really help you diagnose that. Maybe your ISP, or your government, or that nerd neighbour kid who said she'd fix your WiFi are trying to snoop you. But probably not.
It's also possible the server hosting this went a bit haywire maybe under the load. It's clearly on some cheap bulk host and those can be a bit flaky.
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#18I love this initiative in principle, but the instructions left a rather sour taste in my mouth. Create a Firebase app, download and install Node and run some arcane cli commands? For what? To upload a 10-byte HTML file somewhere? Please, do yourself and us a favour and sign up for a free account on https://neocities.org , and make a quirky website by hand for all of us to enjoy. I half want to write a post like this…
Not affiliated but I think Netlify offers a similar level of initial effort but with more room for later growth.
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#19https://jrimbault.io/citation_needed/ I made that _tiny_ website for evenings with friends. It works great. You enter a few names, hit the save button, you get a list with scores and a +1 button for each players. When you refresh the page the scores are reset. The most important feature is the _ding_. The ding makes it fun. It's ridiculously small, but it brings lots of fun.
You have a bug where adding a player doesn't work the first time (from https://jrimbault.io/citation_needed/) as it redirects to https://jrimbault.io/citation_needed/?# and clears the player list. Then it works.
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#20https://jrimbault.io/citation_needed/ I made that _tiny_ website for evenings with friends. It works great. You enter a few names, hit the save button, you get a list with scores and a +1 button for each players. When you refresh the page the scores are reset. The most important feature is the _ding_. The ding makes it fun. It's ridiculously small, but it brings lots of fun.
You have a bug where adding a player doesn't work the first time (from https://jrimbault.io/citation_needed/ ) as it redirects to https://jrimbault.io/citation_needed/?# and clears the player list. Then it works.
yep, didn't care about it :)
It's tiny, it's fun, it's enough. Keyword : enough. Yes I could add a preventDefault, but I don't care. Really, I only entered the names of my friends once, it has been in my localStorage since, and it's only really meant to be used by me.
Fixed it.