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Re: Next Gen Static Blogging

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Post by conductr » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 5:00 PM UTC

hedora wrote: post #35

zbrozek wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had to copy all the text out into a text editor to be able to read the article, not just the links. Contrast is out of vogue I guess.

I don’t understand the current fashion of making everything off-gray on off-gray. I guess it keeps designers employed.

Hypothesis: Whenever you’re building it, you spend hours looking at it, and want to reduce harshness of contrast. The reader is only going to spend 5 minutes and prefers contrast as it allows quick scanning of the text.

Re: Next Gen Static Blogging

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Post by chinathrow » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 5:02 PM UTC

I think you have the year off by one (2020) on your datestamp.

Re: Next Gen Static Blogging

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Post by heroku » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 5:04 PM UTC

I've built the simplest static site generator. https://github.com/eguneys/jener

Re: Next Gen Static Blogging

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Post by Ennea » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 5:05 PM UTC

That tag you are using does not exist in the specs. You may want to change that to .

Re: Next Gen Static Blogging

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Post by ms123 » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 5:07 PM UTC

I've been using this technique on midnight.pub as well, and it's working surprisingly well.

Re: Next Gen Static Blogging

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Post by iamtedd » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 5:08 PM UTC

ricardolopes wrote: post #20

Interesting concept. This seems to simplify the writing part. What about the rest? Is the list of posts generated automatically (if so, how?), or does it require manual management? Do you need the code tag, or could it be something more semantically relevant, such as article?

I found that using w3.org's CSS validator shows reference to the page's URI as '[...].php'. http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=https%3A%2F...

With that and the author's mention of using PHP for a custom blogging setup, I'm guessing it's being dynamically generated by PHP still.

Re: Next Gen Static Blogging

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Post by ffpip » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 5:11 PM UTC

Your site is too hard to read on. Make the color of the font darker or the background lighter please.

I had to copy to a notepad so I could read it.

Edit:

Apparently, dark mode users get this - https://i.imgur.com/5PHYac1.png

I get this - https://i.imgur.com/5PHYac1.png

Light mode is terrible, dark mode is okay. Please increase the contrast in both places.

Re: Next Gen Static Blogging

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Post by thayne » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 5:13 PM UTC

So how would you do a code snippet with syntax highlighting?

Re: Next Gen Static Blogging

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Post by teekert » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 5:15 PM UTC

Yeah if browsers would just render markdown nicely that'd be great.

Re: Next Gen Static Blogging

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Post by smlckz » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 5:24 PM UTC

icy wrote: post #38

smlckz wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's some crazyness: https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2019-08-26-minimal-markdown.ht... I suppose it is not much hard to translate this into PHP...

I built mawkdown[0] off of solene's initial awk implementation! [0]: https://github.com/icyphox/mawkdown

I do not have much experience in awk, but after reading Solene's and your code, I am curious about why are escaped with \ ?

In your m.awk, I also noticed that the markdown formattings (bold, inline and links) are not turned off in code blocks.