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Sure, but you could build the same thing with <100 LOC, in JS, 10 years ago. What I’m trying to say is that even if this qualifies as fashionable in your time

Sure, but you could build the same thing with <100 LOC, in JS, 10 years ago. What I’m trying to say is that even if this qualifies as fashionable in your time scale, a decade is a lot. This isn’t criticism of your approach. It’s better to stick to whatever works for you and focus on the problem domain rather than the tech stack.

marginalia_nu 5y ago
To be fair, 10 years is still uncomfortably modern in my book. My tech needs to at least be old enough to drive a car. Ideally it should be old enough to have an existential crisis about how its life is turning out. ... and you can probably build a 100 LOC static page generator in Java as well. My thing does a lot of weird crap, though. Like it also acts as a Gemini protocol server, you can publish from the web and it pushes every change to a git repo. It also tracks backlinks and re-publishes every page that is mentioned. It also renders from a specialized version of gemtext so there really isn't any standard libraries to use (that I'm aware of).
- rpastuszak 5y ago
  > .. and you can probably build a 100 LOC static page generator in Java as well. Hehe, given how verbose Java can get, I’d increase the word wrap limit x3 in that case. But yeah, I see your point and the project sounds pretty cool. Can I find it anywhere?
  - marginalia_nu 5y ago
    My dude, them's fighting words. So I built a SSG in 50 lines of mostly idiomatic Java (one line is a bit squished, but 52 just doesn't sound as cool): https://github.com/vlofgren/50-line-java-ssg https://github.com/vlofgren/50-line-java-ssg Does deal with partials, bit stuff like an automatic index requires maybe 5-10 additional lines. Took about an hour (plus 15 minutes to try to figure out how to get into my github account, which I haven't actively used in the last 15 odd years). My "real" Java SSG is used to generate https://memex.marginalia.nu/ https://memex.marginalia.nu/. Unfortunately I don't have the source published.
    - malkosta 5y ago
      I liked!
    - malkosta 5y ago
      Here is the shortest I can get while keeping markdown support - 3 lines, with 1 dependency: for file in *.md; do pandoc --quiet --template layout.html $file -o "${file%.*}.html" done
      - marginalia_nu 5y ago
        You're wearing out your enter key my man $ find -maxdepth 0 -name \*md -exec sh -c 'pandoc --quiet --template layout.html "$0" -o ${0%.*}.html' {} \;
        malkosta 5y ago
        Hahaha cool!

marginalia_nu 5y ago

To be fair, 10 years is still uncomfortably modern in my book. My tech needs to at least be old enough to drive a car. Ideally it should be old enough to have an existential crisis about how its life is turning out. ... and you can probably build a 100 LOC static page generator in Java as well. My thing does a lot of weird crap, though. Like it also acts as a Gemini protocol server, you can publish from the web and it pushes every change to a git repo. It also tracks backlinks and re-publishes every page that is mentioned. It also renders from a specialized version of gemtext so there really isn't any standard libraries to use (that I'm aware of).

rpastuszak 5y ago
> .. and you can probably build a 100 LOC static page generator in Java as well. Hehe, given how verbose Java can get, I’d increase the word wrap limit x3 in that case. But yeah, I see your point and the project sounds pretty cool. Can I find it anywhere?
- marginalia_nu 5y ago
  My dude, them's fighting words. So I built a SSG in 50 lines of mostly idiomatic Java (one line is a bit squished, but 52 just doesn't sound as cool): https://github.com/vlofgren/50-line-java-ssg https://github.com/vlofgren/50-line-java-ssg Does deal with partials, bit stuff like an automatic index requires maybe 5-10 additional lines. Took about an hour (plus 15 minutes to try to figure out how to get into my github account, which I haven't actively used in the last 15 odd years). My "real" Java SSG is used to generate https://memex.marginalia.nu/ https://memex.marginalia.nu/. Unfortunately I don't have the source published.
  - malkosta 5y ago
    I liked!
  - malkosta 5y ago
    Here is the shortest I can get while keeping markdown support - 3 lines, with 1 dependency: for file in *.md; do pandoc --quiet --template layout.html $file -o "${file%.*}.html" done
    - marginalia_nu 5y ago
      You're wearing out your enter key my man $ find -maxdepth 0 -name \*md -exec sh -c 'pandoc --quiet --template layout.html "$0" -o ${0%.*}.html' {} \;
      - malkosta 5y ago
        Hahaha cool!