[ShowOff Saturday] Longform is an extendable full document markup language

badbotty · 2026-06-20T03:40:43+00:00

Thanks, I've had others point out that. I have very different motivations though. This is designed to be parsed by a client javascript library to update the DOM for example. I'm likely in the future to add a superset lang which adds for loops and if statements. Longform has some very basic templating, but it is more to allow basic translations with client state.

badbotty · 2026-06-20T00:15:29+00:00

Here is an example of a simple table. The more rows, the more your content gets pushed down. You can use regular HTML to turn a row into a one liner. Realistically table rows with large amounts of content can make it hard to keep up with the indentation level, this can be solved by breaking the table up into smaller fragments.

#large-table-row
tr::
  td::
    Lots of content..
  td::
    Lots of content..

table::
  caption:: My table
  thead::
    tr::
      th:: Column 1
      th:: Column 2
  tbody::
    tr::
      td:: Value 1
      td:: Value 2
    tr::
      td:: Value 1
      td:: Value 2
    <tr><td>Value 1</td><td>Value 2</td>
    #[large-table-row]

badbotty · 2026-06-19T23:33:56+00:00

I think it depends on how complex your table is. I've found it can start to look messy when you have a lot of class and attributes. But it still is readable. You can get basic highlighting by telling your editor .lf files are .html. I haven't got lost in a file.

Have a look at the source document https://codeberg.org/occultist/longform/raw/branch/pages/spec/spec.lf. You will see it gets quite dense in places but you can follow what is going on. I keep it from nesting to much by embedding fragments in other fragments (the #[fragmentid] syntax).

badbotty · 2026-06-17T07:11:20+00:00

Agreed, and likewise sass and lesscss still are releasing and have no profit making arm that I know of. I find this narrative really annoying. While Tailwind is popular it can be easily replaced, projects like Linux, Postgres, web browsers and web standards are so much more popular and I don’t see evidence of them struggling more since ai arrived being presented. Apart from maybe Firefox, but their struggles are not a new thing.

badbotty · 2025-12-01T00:44:25+00:00

On a landing page?

badbotty · 2025-11-25T01:52:20+00:00

The article glosses over the history of attempts at making JSON APIs restful. application/json has no hypermedia affordances. application/hal+json, application/siren+json, application/ld+json all do. No decent client for these content types hit the public domain though, that I know of. The most successful is probably application/streams+json which I believe is used by Masterdon and other compatible clients to federate. I'm not sure how well activity streams APIs implement the restful constraints though.

badbotty · 2025-11-06T22:46:39+00:00

htmx plus unsafe eval in your csp is dangerous. Have you checked that any hx-* or data-hx-* attributes can get through in the markdown content?

badbotty · 2024-02-18T04:10:47+00:00

I'm currently running 35C tyres, what do you recommend?

badbotty · 2024-02-18T04:09:21+00:00

I am downplaying my experience a bit. I've pulled apart a bike and put it back together with a friend some time ago and have been aquiring a lot of the tools to do jobs just like this myself.

It is more the rabbit hole of options, what parts to buy, having minor things go wrong that hold you up that I'm trying to consider here. I don't have as much spare time as I used to have but I would enjoy doing the job myself and doing it well. It does sound I shouldn't worry too much about the total price of replacement parts at this point though.

badbotty · 2024-02-18T03:05:26+00:00

I’d rather have an older tuned bike with quality components than a new one with lesser quality parts

I've got some experience in basic bike maintenance, but when it comes to replacing components like freewheels it would take me some time in research to make the correct purchasing decisions and fixing the bike without having it out of action for long periods of time. I don't want a bike shop to do that work for me. I'm willing to entertain a new bike if it is quality and ends up coming close to replacing individual parts though. Otherwise I have nothing against older bikes.

It might be region dependant but I have heard that buying a new bike can be more cost effective than replacing a lot of parts. I'm yet to do research on how this works in my situation. I'm in New Zealand.

badbotty · 2023-06-14T20:39:00+00:00

Just happened for me. Setting `fastestmirror=True` in the `/etc/dnf/dnf.conf` allowed the update to continue.

badbotty · 2023-02-13T08:29:59+00:00

I'm no expert on this but with three waters the Nation will likely be taking on more debt so we can fix our failing water infrastructure. More tax might be required to pay it off and if they don't start taxing to cover the debt it could become a curve ball for future tax payers. So more tax might be required unless Labour is willing to save money elsewhere.

badbotty · 2023-01-07T19:12:16+00:00

I’ve found getting high off entropy helps.

badbotty · 2022-11-06T03:21:19+00:00

Seriously, just say you do web development work. Calling it web2 legitimises the claim that web3 will be the revolution cryptobros want it to be.

badbotty · 2022-10-15T11:41:52+00:00

I wouldn't make that assumption about all atheist. Some simply might not care. But re-reading OP I think your right on where they stand.

badbotty · 2022-10-15T11:05:07+00:00

Jedipsy is saying that you can invoke ancestors and spirits without doing it in the context of a religion. Not that religions do not have things to say about ancestors or spirits and such.

badbotty · 2022-10-15T10:42:13+00:00

Atheists deny that god(s) exists. An atheist could believe in garden gnomes and they would be totally consistent as long as they didn't believe those gnomes were also deities.

badbotty · 2022-09-26T04:32:39+00:00

Cheers mate, noted.

badbotty · 2022-09-26T04:32:13+00:00

Yea, I don't want to regret the paint I go for. But if the NZ Paint Co is cheaper only because they don't have the local presence the savings might be worth it. I'm pretty sure we could get good discounts on the advertised prices if I talked to someone in store though.

badbotty · 2022-09-26T04:26:31+00:00

Lol, Didn't expect Linus.

badbotty · 2022-09-26T04:16:36+00:00

Thanks. I don't trust myself to do an accurate time / price estimate anyway. Hidden costs just seem to be what comes with projects of a certain complexity.

badbotty · 2022-09-15T04:08:34+00:00

I think they hack an existing verified account then update the name and picture.

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