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Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

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Re: Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

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Post by Brajeshwar »

Personal, but I’d rather learn and own a process.

1. Learn how you can get HTML generated from a human-readable and writer-friendly format, say, Markdown (plain-text). This can be Pandoc, a macOS/Win wrapper desktop UI over Pandoc, and many other tools that do this.

2. Learn the process (and the tools) to upload, or sync to a service that hosts the HTML (CSS+JS).

3. Learn the simple steps of owning of a domain, and updating the DNS to point to the right services, such as Github Pages, CloudFlare Pages, etc.

As you are not dependent on a particular tool/service/platform/company, you can walk out and host your files (the website content) elsewhere.

The post-processing of the raw (Markdown) articles/posts to HTML can be then automated with Static Site Generator if someone is willing to learn a little more on top of the above steps.

Of course, it is a fun and good thing to know HTML but that should be optional to the target of “Run your own website 100% independently.” With Github and Cloudfalre, you can hve it for $0 monthly. If they go kaput or stops free, someone will come up - walk out and walk in elsewhere.

Re: Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

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Post by pastel8739 »

smalltorch wrote: post #72
pastel8739 wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder if the fact that you linked to clear web source code links rather than onion links demonstrates why people might pay the penny…

Making something as easy as possible to try demonstrates why you need to pay a penny? I don't follow.

Yes, exactly. Because if you’d paid that penny for a server on the regular internet you would just link to the real site

Re: Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

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Post by t-3 »

Telaneo wrote: post #38
shermantanktop wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I encountered juniors straight out of school who don’t know what tar is, or rsync, or what a symlink is. It’s all learnable and everyone starts somewhere. But you’d think natural curiosity would kick in and they’d have picked up some of this on their own by the time they have a job.

I didn't even know about tar or rsync until I started to use Linux, and I don't really see how else one get to the point where you need to know about them. And even symlinks are still in my mind as 'shortcuts but [...]' (even though the other way around is probably more accurate). Even as a dev, it's very possible to go through life without touching Linux.

If you've built any open source software ever, it's pretty hard not to know of tar, even if you don't know exactly what it is. I think it's reasonable to expect anyone interested in computers would be familiar with common compression tools, let alone a CS major.

Re: Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

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Post by andai »

raytopia wrote: post #46

Nearlyfreespeech is a great service though not a 100% independent as your still relying on them. I think the closest you can get to 100% independent without running your own internet infrastructure is either port forwarding from your home (if allowed) or hosting a website through TOR which isn't too hard. You just have to download the browser and edit a config file (torrc) with the port you want on the network. Not i…

Nah, then you're still dependent on Tor. The most independent way is to publish your blog on your own p2p network ;)

Re: Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

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Post by Telaneo »

t-3 wrote: post #86
Telaneo wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't even know about tar or rsync until I started to use Linux, and I don't really see how else one get to the point where you need to know about them. And even symlinks are still in my mind as 'shortcuts but [...]' (even though the other way around is probably more accurate). Even as a dev, it's very possible to go through life without touching Linux.

If you've built any open source software ever, it's pretty hard not to know of tar, even if you don't know exactly what it is. I think it's reasonable to expect anyone interested in computers would be familiar with common compression tools, let alone a CS major.

> I think it's reasonable to expect anyone interested in computers would be familiar with common compression tools

So 7zip and Winrar?

I joke, but only halfway. If you're only normal Windows user, you'd never hear of anything else (unless you want to go back to Winzip, which does still exist, but I've never heard of anyone using it any more).

Re: Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

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Post by salamo »

I come at it from a slightly different angle.

I write technical blog posts with visualizations and live demos. That usually means embedding a bit of custom javascript in the page for the demo. Or shipping custom wasm to enable extreme semantic model compression.

I do this by pushing content from my machine to github pages which is wired up to my subdomain.

If github pages stops being a good, free option for this, I will find another. Not sure I would call this "hardcore" really.

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