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Re: Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint

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Post by sphars » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 3:29 PM UTC

hypersoar wrote: post #40

This is a tangent to this post, but... I happen to have a cat named Kiki who looks rather like the mascot for this project. Her health is failing, now. I just spent the night on my living room floor next to her. I'll, likely have to put her down, today. I might use this project to make a memorial page for her. https://ibb.co/7dRCnWrp https://ibb.co/1GWwDKLY

I'm sorry you're dealing with this. I had an orange tabby also named Kiki for most of my childhood through early adulthood, 16 years. He suffered from kidney failure and it was a sad day when we had to put him down.

May you have peace during this time.

Re: Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint

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Post by dspillett » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 3:36 PM UTC

> kiki is shareware.

Now that is a blast from the past.

Is much else distributed that way these days?

Re: Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint

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Post by nxobject » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 3:54 PM UTC

giancarlostoro wrote: post #35

theragra wrote: post #14

Reminds me of a time when my homepage (before lj blog) was using cmsimple. BTW, c still exists. Not sure if it is still "simple" tho. https://www.cmsimple.org/en/

> c still exists C and Go are two languages I feel like if you learn them, you can come back years later and if your memory is still good, you could get back up to speed pretty darn quickly. Every few years I go back to Go and try to build web apps using only the standard libraries, and I always find myself very quickly picking up all the concepts.

For some reason, Java has the same feeling. Professionally I do both embedded and statistical computing, and Java's been nearly anathema to this. But every 5 years I patch a hobby project I did once in college, and it comes right back (and with JVM hot reloading too.) It gives me the engineering warm and fuzzies.

Re: Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint

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Post by rpdillon » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 3:57 PM UTC

Lord_Zero wrote: post #32

sph wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If selling software for money wasn’t such a pain in the arse I would put stuff on my website rather than itch.io It took me two weeks, plus sending IDs, incorporating an ltd, to get a license to sell software with Paddle. With itch I just need a paypal/stripe account.

I am going through this right now! I am provisionally approved and still waiting. Even worse I am going through SMS phone number verification with SMTP2GO. Apparently if you wanna send automated texts in America, you need a real phone number. And to not get immediately blocked, you need to fill out a form that goes to the major carriers for approval (like AT&T). And the form is not unlike Paddle's verification. You n…

Yep, it's called 10DLC. My teams work on telephony integrations, and for the devs to even test that outbound SMS is working, we need to go through this process with every provider we integrate. Massive pain, indeed.

Re: Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint

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Post by vga256 » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 4:00 PM UTC

dspillett wrote: post #52

> kiki is shareware. Now that is a blast from the past. Is much else distributed that way these days?

Would love to know myself. I haven't seen the term used in 20+ years.

Re: Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint

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Post by dallen33 » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 4:09 PM UTC

PHP was and still is the best.

Re: Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint

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Post by mock-possum » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 4:38 PM UTC

Gualdrapo wrote: post #11

brettermeier wrote: post #2

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idk, the demo thingy looks great. https://tomotama.com/kikidemo/

Could use some more attention to responsive layout though - too nav links aligned left flow into and overlap with top nav links aligned right. I’m on my phone right now so I can check but flex or plain old float could’ve solved that.

Re: Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint

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Post by masfuerte » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 4:43 PM UTC

JdeBP wrote: post #26

hananova wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, pick two? One for each background?

There is only one 'blue', colour number 4, in ECMA-45.

A terminal emulator could choose to display different foreground blues, depending on the background colour.

Re: Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 5:15 PM UTC

That must be the first time in a very long time that I've seen something claim to support PHP 4.

Re: Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint

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Post by sph » Thu, Jun 04, 2026, 5:21 PM UTC

sneak wrote: post #39

sph wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If selling software for money wasn’t such a pain in the arse I would put stuff on my website rather than itch.io It took me two weeks, plus sending IDs, incorporating an ltd, to get a license to sell software with Paddle. With itch I just need a paypal/stripe account.

If you accept cryptocurrency you don’t need to do any of this, and not even deal with PayPal (who WILL rob you without a second thought, as has been well documented on the internet for MULTIPLE decades at this point).

I would like to (Bitcoin Lightning only, with a healthy convenience discount) but I'd have to move off Hetzner for my servers because they are really against crypto in a very vague way, and again, that's a lot more work than just using itch.io