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Show HN: Zb, a self-contained zip blog

39 points by rhabarba 4y ago

chucktingle 4y ago
Based Fossil user!
metadat 4y ago
Pretty badass, I didn't know it but I've been waiting for just this!
- rhabarba 4y ago
  Enjoy!
rpdillon 4y ago
This type of project is quite interesting to me, and I plan to give it a try. Skimming through the README, I noticed a couple of errors: 1. Under cloning with git, the command should 'git' rather than 'fossil' 2. The link to LICENSE is a 404. The correct link should likely be https://code.rosaelefanten.org/zb/file?name=LICENSE&ci=tip https://code.rosaelefanten.org/zb/file?name=LICENSE&ci=tip rather than https://code.rosaelefanten.org/zb/LICENSE https://code.rosaelefanten.org/zb/LICENSE. Regardless, this is an awesome idea and implementation. It's also neat that you're hosting the source with Fossil!
- rhabarba 4y ago
  Ah, READMEs. The least loved part of my software, usually. 1. Yes, oops. I usually don't waste many thoughts on Git, I just happen to mirror my Fossil repositories there - so this has just slipped by. Fixed, thank you. 2. Hmm, Fossil's internal linking and its Markdown parser do not spark much joy... fixed as well. :-) (The GitHub mirror will be updated tomorrow night, but the Fossil repository is live.) When I started hosting my own repositories, I was evaluating Mercurial, Fossil, CVS, SVN and Darcs, but Fossil was (and still is) the easiest to maintain, so I decided to stick with it. I'm glad that I'm not the only person who likes it! (Most of my projects are not a bazaar, so Fossil is perfect for them.)
smusamashah 4y ago
Check out redbean. It's a single cross platform exe which is also a zip containing html and also supports Lua script. But that doesn't support Markdown I think. Yours is probably simpler to setup too.
- mananaysiempre 4y ago
  (To clarify: redbean[1], by Justine Tunney of αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε, cosmopolitan, and sectorlisp fame.) [1] https://redbean.dev/ https://redbean.dev/
- rhabarba 4y ago
  I was told that redbean is a similar software, but I had not known it before. Always good to know alternatives. :-)
thunderbong 4y ago
Rarely do I get to see a fossil repository link on HN!
- rhabarba 4y ago
  I should probably write more software… :-)
fsiefken 4y ago
So can this technique also be used to use with other compression algorithms like the hutter prize winning starlit, used to make a self-extracting wikipedia copy with state of the art text compression? I like the idea, but you could also mount a file with a compressed and perhaps also encrypted filesystem (btrfs or zfs) and serve the contents through a portable lightweight high performance web or gemini server, or even modify a webserver to serve a compressed website in a single file? It somehow reminds me of the seaside web framework contained in a single file smalltalk image even though the concepts are very different.
- rhabarba 4y ago
  I assume that adding more compression algorithms would be doable. But zb is, in its current form, a proof of concept, at least. :-)
janwillemb 4y ago
I am struggling to see the "why". Maybe that is obvious for some readers, but it would help readers like me to add a "why" to the readme. What problem does it solve?
- rhabarba 4y ago
  The problem of not having a software that lets me maintain an .org-based website with no dependencies. :-)

39 points by rhabarba 4y ago

chucktingle 4y ago

Based Fossil user!

metadat 4y ago

Pretty badass, I didn't know it but I've been waiting for just this!

rhabarba 4y ago
Enjoy!

rpdillon 4y ago

This type of project is quite interesting to me, and I plan to give it a try. Skimming through the README, I noticed a couple of errors: 1. Under cloning with git, the command should 'git' rather than 'fossil' 2. The link to LICENSE is a 404. The correct link should likely be https://code.rosaelefanten.org/zb/file?name=LICENSE&ci=tip https://code.rosaelefanten.org/zb/file?name=LICENSE&ci=tip rather than https://code.rosaelefanten.org/zb/LICENSE https://code.rosaelefanten.org/zb/LICENSE. Regardless, this is an awesome idea and implementation. It's also neat that you're hosting the source with Fossil!

rhabarba 4y ago
Ah, READMEs. The least loved part of my software, usually. 1. Yes, oops. I usually don't waste many thoughts on Git, I just happen to mirror my Fossil repositories there - so this has just slipped by. Fixed, thank you. 2. Hmm, Fossil's internal linking and its Markdown parser do not spark much joy... fixed as well. :-) (The GitHub mirror will be updated tomorrow night, but the Fossil repository is live.) When I started hosting my own repositories, I was evaluating Mercurial, Fossil, CVS, SVN and Darcs, but Fossil was (and still is) the easiest to maintain, so I decided to stick with it. I'm glad that I'm not the only person who likes it! (Most of my projects are not a bazaar, so Fossil is perfect for them.)

smusamashah 4y ago

Check out redbean. It's a single cross platform exe which is also a zip containing html and also supports Lua script. But that doesn't support Markdown I think. Yours is probably simpler to setup too.

mananaysiempre 4y ago
(To clarify: redbean[1], by Justine Tunney of αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε, cosmopolitan, and sectorlisp fame.) [1] https://redbean.dev/ https://redbean.dev/
rhabarba 4y ago
I was told that redbean is a similar software, but I had not known it before. Always good to know alternatives. :-)

thunderbong 4y ago

Rarely do I get to see a fossil repository link on HN!

rhabarba 4y ago
I should probably write more software… :-)

fsiefken 4y ago

So can this technique also be used to use with other compression algorithms like the hutter prize winning starlit, used to make a self-extracting wikipedia copy with state of the art text compression? I like the idea, but you could also mount a file with a compressed and perhaps also encrypted filesystem (btrfs or zfs) and serve the contents through a portable lightweight high performance web or gemini server, or even modify a webserver to serve a compressed website in a single file? It somehow reminds me of the seaside web framework contained in a single file smalltalk image even though the concepts are very different.

rhabarba 4y ago
I assume that adding more compression algorithms would be doable. But zb is, in its current form, a proof of concept, at least. :-)

janwillemb 4y ago

I am struggling to see the "why". Maybe that is obvious for some readers, but it would help readers like me to add a "why" to the readme. What problem does it solve?

rhabarba 4y ago
The problem of not having a software that lets me maintain an .org-based website with no dependencies. :-)