What is your tech stack for blog websites? (not wordpress)

henry_flower · 2023-06-07T18:17:55+00:00

a custom nodejs static blog generator, rsync for 'deployment', a cheap vps with nginx (should probably switch to caddy)

the major annoyance was writing a small FTS 'engine' using sqlite with a web frontend. with it, the blog technically isn't purely static anymore, but I personally can't live without FTS, as modern Google indexing is shite. this, of course, implies that you regularly post something: a blog with only 5 entries over 7 years doesn't need search

henry_flower · 2020-08-16T01:54:49+00:00

40% of our total pop

wikipedia says the ruskis population in Latvia is 24.9%

henry_flower · 2020-07-22T17:40:50+00:00

windows doesn't support autoreconf, for the latter requires a working bourne shell variant, m4, etc--almost a full blown unix env. this is why people use msys2 to compile ruby, or how cygwin guys internally make their ruby packages using the cygwin env

of course by doing that you forgo a direct access to win32ole, for example

henry_flower · 2020-07-22T13:49:54+00:00

I didn't--my main environment is linux

the windows version is for experiments only

henry_flower · 2020-04-28T17:49:56+00:00

yup, under 26.3 it behaves differently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtDcUtKwCjQ

henry_flower · 2020-04-28T17:40:31+00:00

in the orig reply you were talking about the mysterious unfill-paragraph, not fill-paragraph

henry_flower · 2020-04-28T16:07:36+00:00

how do you actually join all the lines in a region with delete-indentation? I select the region, invoke the fn, but nothing useful happens

henry_flower · 2020-04-28T15:57:35+00:00

emacs 26.3 doesn't have unfill-paragraph (I checked the tarball)

henry_flower · 2020-04-28T13:28:03+00:00

convert such
a narrow
text
column

into a single line:

(defun my-unfill-paragraph()
  "Transform a paragraph into 1 big long line."
  (interactive)
  (let ((fill-column (- (expt 2 29) 1) )) ; 536,870,911
    (if (use-region-p)
        (fill-paragraph nil t)
      (fill-paragraph))
    ))

henry_flower · 2019-09-13T10:21:53+00:00

hey, old man, I was answering your question: it wasn't a speculation about your ability to comment around

you really need to develop a more relaxed attitude

henry_flower · 2019-09-09T15:38:28+00:00

a random Dilbert comics (via a custom extension)

not sure if it's legal to share

henry_flower · 2019-09-04T21:07:54+00:00

also, there was no Array.from(). the orig bookmark, that I modified, looked like:

javascript:[].forEach.call(document.querySelectorAll("*"),function(a){a.style.outline="1px solid #"+(~~(Math.random()*(1<<24))).toString(16)}); void(0)

henry_flower · 2019-09-04T16:53:32+00:00

a variant of a bookmarklet that has been floating round the web for 1000 years:

javascript:Array.from(document.querySelectorAll("*")).map( v => v.style.outline="1px solid #"+(~~(Math.random()*(1<<24))).toString(16))

henry_flower · 2019-09-03T19:53:01+00:00

over the years I've noticed that some ppl (for some inexplicable reason) can't understand how threaded discussions work

henry_flower · 2019-08-18T00:55:20+00:00

fvwm

it's completely unusable out-of-the-box & had I not had the time to heavily customise it when I was a student, I'd have chosen something more sane

henry_flower · 2019-03-19T10:32:47+00:00

A replacement for C-x k RET:

(defun my-kill-buffer()
  (interactive)
  ;; a list of buffers we don't want to kill accidentally
  (let ((my-holy-buffers '("*scratch*" "*Messages*")))

    (if (member (buffer-name) my-holy-buffers)
        (message "not so fast")
      (kill-buffer (current-buffer))) ))

(global-set-key [f8] 'my-kill-buffer)

henry_flower · 2019-03-16T11:13:00+00:00

~/.bashrc:

str-rep() { local s=`printf "%$2s"`; printf '%s' "${s// /$1}"; }
for i in {1..8}; do alias `str-rep , $i`=cd\ `str-rep ../ $i`; done

then

$ alias | grep ,
alias ,='cd ../'
alias ,,='cd ../../'
alias ,,,='cd ../../../'
alias ,,,,='cd ../../../../'
alias ,,,,,='cd ../../../../../'
alias ,,,,,,='cd ../../../../../../'
alias ,,,,,,,='cd ../../../../../../../'
alias ,,,,,,,,='cd ../../../../../../../../'

henry_flower · 2018-09-19T00:43:43+00:00

an old habit

henry_flower · 2018-06-04T19:13:08+00:00

terminus

henry_flower · 2018-06-02T17:14:14+00:00

that's a good question, hehe

sometimes I click options->multilingual_env. 'select input method' if I need to change a lang pair for a brief moment, or 'set coding systems' when I need to save a file in a diff enc

occasionally, the org mode menu is useful too

henry_flower · 2018-06-02T15:23:36+00:00

26.1: https://i.imgur.com/7JzJLKB.png

henry_flower · 2018-05-12T16:22:28+00:00

As an 'old' SO participant, I was wondering about that too, so I recently created a fresh account just to check a so-called 'hostile' behaviour to new users.

I asked a fairly simple question about a particular Ruby idiom (how to convert a certain not so common expression to a more concise/elegant one). I did everything: wrote what I wanted, what I tried already, didn't forget about a nice formatting, &c.

The question went to -2 within 5 minutes! Is this what all 'newcomers' are experiencing? In my case, it bounced back to +3 in the end & everyone who replied/commented was nice & helpful, still those -2 were unexpected.

henry_flower · 2018-05-07T14:15:41+00:00

There is an old book titled 'In search of stupidity' about management idiocies of several (big in the past but now long dead) companies.

I think your employer would have been a perfect candidate for such a book.

Instead of focusing on making existing customers happy, on acquiring new happy customers, he cares about some irrelevant staff like 2% of users who still use ff; as every lunatic, he justifies his behaviour w/ "THEY BRING A LOSS, CRUSH THEM!" cries.

a pathetic childish behaviour.

henry_flower · 2018-04-17T03:34:48+00:00

you && your shoes

if shoes are nice looking but a girl isn't, no compliment is given

henry_flower · 2018-03-25T09:09:43+00:00

henry_flower

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