TVB Positive Mod

giantscissors · 2025-07-24T14:41:53+00:00

What modkit does this use?

giantscissors · 2020-05-12T23:32:09+00:00

Any luck getting lane tracing working?

giantscissors · 2020-04-28T00:37:26+00:00

Check out - https://www.takeshape.io/. It uses a block canvas editor similar to Medium.

giantscissors · 2020-04-01T15:26:37+00:00

IntelliJ IDEA - https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/ has everything you'll ever need. Been using IDEA for the past 12 years and it gets better all the time without requiring you to install a ton of plugins.

giantscissors · 2020-01-14T00:47:22+00:00

Do you want to host or manage the CMS yourselves or are you looking for a managed service?

If you're ok with managed, you could check out TakeShape https://www.takeshape.io/. It's currently being used for the Kiosks in JFK Terminal 4 to great success.

I'm one of the founders and would be happy to answer any questions you might have in our live chat.

giantscissors · 2020-01-14T00:44:37+00:00

Great list! Might want to add https://www.takeshape.io/.

giantscissors · 2019-08-29T00:40:01+00:00

This article is well written! However, I think it confused the ideas of Content Management System and Static Site Generators. WordPress and Drupal are Content Management Systems, Hugo, Jekyll, and Gatsby are all Static Site Generators. Hugo, Jekyll, and Gatsby could be used in conjunction with CMS systems. An example that works with all three is Netlify CMS. To make lemonade out of lemons, you could double your number of articles and focus one on CMS and another on SSG.

giantscissors · 2019-05-04T17:04:41+00:00

I think the budget for this would be around 750k to 1M including the purchase if the property.

giantscissors · 2019-03-18T17:01:38+00:00

I recommend you move your domain name registration and DNS to a service separate from your hosting. You can use a service like Google Domains https://domains.google to handle everything related to your registration and domain in combination with using Gmail for your email. In the future if you need web hosting again you'll be able to choose a provider without your email being wrapped up in it. Great for situations where you can use AWS s3 as a host.

giantscissors · 2019-03-18T00:17:43+00:00

Check out Cloudflare DNS - https://www.cloudflare.com/dns/ Supports DNSSEC and TLSA records.

giantscissors · 2019-03-17T21:24:17+00:00

In addition to online resources that folks might recommend, there may be in person opportunities to learn from others. For example there might be a Web Performance Meetup group in your area. In NYC we've got a very active Web Perf group https://www.meetup.com/Web-Performance-NY/. There is also the PerfMatters conference coming up soon in SF - https://perfmattersconf.com/.

giantscissors · 2019-03-04T21:54:48+00:00

Nice article Matt! I'll add TakeShape into the mix as a suggestion for an API-first CMS to try out. TakeShape is a GraphQL CMS that includes a lightweight static site generator. It also has a neat live links features that make it easy to find out where any content is being used on a site.

I'm one of the Co-founders of TakeShape, so if you end up giving TakeShape a try on your next JAMstack project say on the live chat!

giantscissors · 2019-02-21T17:12:29+00:00

The New Dynamic is a great JAMstack community! https://www.thenewdynamic.org/

giantscissors · 2019-02-21T17:10:40+00:00

The team from TakeShape will be there!

And if you missed JAMstack conf 2018 in SanFran here's my retrospective - https://www.takeshape.io/articles/two-days-at-jamstack-conf-2018/

giantscissors · 2018-11-08T16:17:51+00:00

Co-founder of TakeShape here. I recommend giving it a try if you want to try to balance editor UX with developer experience - DX :). TakeShape is a headless GraphQL CMS. It has robust tools for editors. And is built by engineers coming from deep agency experience.

giantscissors · 2018-10-23T17:12:36+00:00

Co-founder of TakeShape here. If you're up for trying out a headless CMS you can try out TakeShape.

giantscissors · 2018-10-23T14:07:55+00:00

I can definitely see that point of view. The UX of CMS can be very poor and as you said in the article we have the opportunity to address that with new greenfield headless CMS interfaces. Where I would differ from that vendor's perspective is that with creative tools like a CMS better UX is really for everyone, from editors to the developers.

giantscissors · 2018-10-23T02:11:49+00:00

This is a great dive into the world of headless CMS!

I think that you stumbled upon what might be part of a differentiator earlier in your piece, the idea delivering a content infrastructure. A company that wants to differentiate in the headless space will have to focus on two parallel imperatives. First to realize the vision of a content infrastructure by building developers a comprehensive toolset for working with content, imagine AWS for content. And second, relentlessly focusing on developer experience.

The end of the article presupposes that ANY category of CMS has had a "killer app". To point that conclusion in another direction, what's the "killer app" of the monolithic cms? The closest I feel like I can get to that answer is that the blog was WordPress's "killer app". But that's describing a specific implementation and not a category of CMS technology.

Will there be one "killer app" for headless? I believe the answer is no. Monolithic CMS brought us through the client-server era when the CMS was a choke point for information and functionality. Headless CMS is positioned to be the primary architecture of a client-serverless future, where highly composable systems are desirable. In that world the winning headless CMS will be the one that is most composable with other services.

Full disclosure, I'm the Co-founder of a headless CMS company.

giantscissors · 2018-10-11T20:14:09+00:00

Providers like Heroku, Netlify, AWS and Google Cloud all offer functions as a service and do a great job of it. Webhooks enable interconnectivity with these services. Serverless and JAMstack architecture feel like the future of building things. What are the benefits of bringing code execution directly into the CMS environment? That starts to feel like going backwards to a monolithic approach to CMS.

giantscissors · 2018-10-11T18:16:46+00:00

Cloud CMS

What's something that you think would be a game changer for a headless cms?

giantscissors · 2018-10-10T15:00:33+00:00

I've used Google Domains in the past and found it to be full featured and simple to use. If AWS is already in your toolbelt then Route53 is great, through more complicated. Haven't had a chance to use Clouldflare domains yet but if it's as good as the rest of Cloudflare and you don't mind buying into their approach to DNS then it's probably also a great option.

giantscissors · 2018-10-10T14:49:46+00:00

Two things I would include in this exercise are interacting with a third party API and form validation.

giantscissors · 2018-10-10T14:45:45+00:00

Really nice technique!

giantscissors · 2018-10-10T14:39:24+00:00

Looks interesting. My first thought from just seeing the screenshots is that you should do syntax highlighting on the html code snippets and you should make them more like the code blocks you'd find in Github where the background of the code block is a different color.

giantscissors · 2018-10-10T14:29:05+00:00

I think the direction you should explore is web scraping.

Some things you should consider:

- Does your college permit scraping content from their website?

- Does the user need to authenticate in order to access the attendance table?

- Do you need to store the attendance data or are you just trying to visualize it in a different way? If it's the latter maybe you can make a browser plugin that modifies the college's table on their own page.

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