I wish these had been around 15 years ago… #staticsitegenerator #webdev #html

While checking out instructions to HexEdit and Reflash my KaiOS phone (definitely don’t have the confidence to do that yet!) I came across a site written with “Zola“, a “Static Site Generator”.

While creating the vast majority of the code for MonstaPro, it made me wonder if there wasn’t an easier way to generate HTML and CSS, even JavaScript (yes: I still spell it with an uppercase “S”!). I was writing all that (easily 10s KLOC) by hand back then…

Written in Rust and configured using TOML (but all actual content you write uses CommonMark) once configured you write templates and “scripts” for those templates, so Zola creates your HTML exactly the way you tell it to. Bloomin’. Genius.

You can even install in on Windows, but you need a Package editor to do so. Go check it out.

Content creation and moving in a contantly changing environment

This is post is entirely because I found some excellent text, directly from the W3, that sums up the issues I had with staying afloat in a competitive market (selling “skillz”) with a codebase that not so much changed as rotated every few months. I sympathise with anyone mad enough to create a Facebook app’…

From https://www.w3.org/wiki/Graceful_degradation_versus_progressive_enhancement:

256 Shades of Grey

Intriguing:

RT @TechCrunch 256 Shades Of Grey http://t.co/jGG5MKdlBQ

HTML5 questions – One at a time

I just spent a week and a few days in environments that are not the web savvy folk I normally hang out with – Mobile World Congress and CEBIT – and it was fascinating.

What fascinated me was not only that the technology approach there is totally different from ours – I was most amazed just how skewed the view of HTML5 in these environments is. Repeatedly I had to answer questions that were not of technical nature but actually simple regurgitations of either marketing BS about HTML5 or marketing BS against HTML5. In any case, it was mostly about blanket statements and in order to keep my sanity I thought I answer a few here.

I have to say I’m looking forward to these!

HTML5 Now

RT @Inspirationf: The current state of HTML5 [INFOGRAPHIC] http://ow.ly/9INn2

The above caught my eye earlier today; and although it has done the round of the inta-web, it is more than just-quite-pretty…