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Re: Blot turns a folder into a website

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Post by Piraty »

dovholuknf wrote: post #128
eternityforest wrote: post #95

How does this compare to Zrok's integrated server? I've been very impressed with zrok even though I haven't done anything with it in production yet.

It might be more similar to zrok's caddy integration where you can get "fancier" than just delivering files? Blot is trying to do different stuff than zrok is it seems. Like, it's processing markdown, zrok doesn't try to do that for example. zrok is more about sharing easily. blot doesn't appear to be open source from what i can tell and it's not self-hostable as far as I can tell. seems pretty different overall. I'm…

caddy can serve markdown'ish files: https://caddy.community/t/markdown-support-in-v2/6984/8

Re: Blot turns a folder into a website

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Post by withinboredom »

mettamage wrote: post #112
ravenstine wrote: post #47

1. Old solution becomes new again 2. Folks clamor that we actually had things right the first time 3. Hype dies down 4. Blog posts complain that the solution "just doesn't scale" and that the complete opposite approach (or some hybrid) is better 5. GOTO 1

GOTO 1. Old solution becomes new again Points 2 and 3 4. Dijkstra enters the picture with the paper: Go To Statement Considered Harmful [1] 5. Wait, did this ever happen? :’) I wonder if there’s a modern language practice that extensively uses GOTO [1] https://homepages.cwi.nl/~storm/teaching/reader/Dijkstra68.p...

I use goto whenever I have the opportunity, which, sadly, is not that often.

I don't know why people don't like it -- it's essentially an unconditional jump (can replace all while(true);, for example).

Re: Blot turns a folder into a website

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Post by pjmlp »

lcof wrote: post #101
AlienRobot wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The internet is made of tubes. And tubes are made of circles. 2024 is the year of PHP.

Perl CGI is the way to go to get ready for 2026

Maybe Vercel and Netfly could think about doing Perl serverless.

Re: Blot turns a folder into a website

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Post by killingtime74 »

iamthepieman wrote: post #113

Is there an option to pay and to self host? Recently my boss asked me for things to spend money on to use up some budget at the end of the year. We can't use hosting services but would pay for support or an "enterprise" edition if we could host it ourselves. Probably not your market but just something to consider.

Maybe buy the hosted service (to pay them), don't use it, then just use the Open Source?

Re: Blot turns a folder into a website

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Post by EarthAmbassador »

devjab wrote: post #109
dgam wrote: post #88

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Fair point – I have just added: https://blot.im/pricing

Some people are pointing out that they found it easy to read your pricing before you added this site. I’d like to offer a different perspective. So many tech products and startups lack this sort of easy to find clarity. Many times in my professional life we’ve dismissed products we might have bought if they had a pricing page as clear as yours. Not so much because they necessarily did anything wrong, but because we r…

I want to second this view--simple transparency and being upfront about pricing sets the tone for an entire ongoing relationship, and is even critical to beginning one. I have a 99 percent rejection rate of every website that doesn't put pricing up front, along with a customer service phone number. If I have to click more than once for pricing, and if that phone isn't on the landing page, the entire product goes straight into the ether. Ignoring these basics is a fundamental lack of respect for my time and attention as a customer, and I won't have it. I know this view is pervasive, yet dark patterns persist.

Re: Blot turns a folder into a website

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Post by EarthAmbassador »

voidfunc wrote: post #86
cortesoft wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you think it would sign you up without confirmation or something? It seems strange to me to not want to hit sign up to see how much it would cost.

I agree sign-up is not how I would look for pricing. Sign-up is something I click when I'm ready to commit to using but until then I'm looking for information and I expect something like a Pricing page. If I can't find the pricing I'm never going to click "sign up"

Indeed. In fact, I will refuse to sign up out of spite.

Re: Blot turns a folder into a website

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Post by michaelquigley »

eternityforest wrote: post #95

How does this compare to Zrok's integrated server? I've been very impressed with zrok even though I haven't done anything with it in production yet.

I'm the lead developer of zrok. I've also had a habit of building static site generators over the years. Might be an interesting little crossover possibility.

There's a bunch of zrok stuff in the pipeline that's way more important to get to first... but maybe down the line we can support some kind of extension mechanism in zrok and static site generators could just sort of snap right in...

Stuff to think about anyway.

Re: Blot turns a folder into a website

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Post by ukuina »

low_tech_love wrote: post #71
starkparker wrote: post #20

Express application that converts files to HTML with pandoc and serves the results, with a dashboard. The TODO file in the repo[1] is fascinating. 1: https://github.com/davidmerfield/Blot/blob/39d9583395c190534...

Interesting, he has links to his inbox in the file…!

Unusual, but not a security risk, I hope?

Thankfully, only the first name of the recipients is listed.

Re: Blot turns a folder into a website

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Post by berkes »

zeekaran wrote: post #127
berkes wrote: post #61

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You are joking, but I honestly would like it to get a personalized weekly collection of articles, a wiki lemma, a comic or two and some reviews delivered as PDF or on paper. The crux being that it's personalized. It could use my Pocket, RSS reader, reddit/hn voting habits, even my bookmarks db as inspiration. I don't know or care, as long as it manages to deliver me a week's worth every week. Filled with content that…

This is what Google promised, and I hope the near future of AI is able to deliver on.

From what I understand and from what I know of Google (or any big tech), this won't be a "weekly" digest, but rather a constant barrage of "personalized" attention seeking push notifications. Breaking news! Something you should comment on! This movie is trending, watch it now! Your friends have read this book, why haven't you!? Kinda stuff.

What I envisioned, is truly slow paced. Like the "old" in depth weekly magazines. Or journals. Something that I have a week to go through, and that doesn't get stale if I don't.

Maybe I should make it myself (though I guess that's my impulsive ADD brain tricking me into yet another hare chase)

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