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The design of this blog is delightfully readable: no popups, no banners, no FOUC as I wait for a beautiful webfont to load.

wizofaus 4y ago
Except for the "beautiful webfront" bit, that was my experience too - no popups/banners/ads while waiting patiently for it to finally load the "Connection timed out" page.
- deleted 4y ago
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- sodimel 4y ago
  If you're speaking about l3m.in I removed unused chars from the font I load (using the super tool on fontsquirrel website) in order to make it lighter. I save the banner images in webp format too (with a liiiittle bit of gaussian blur in order to reduce the size even more) :P The real problem here is my internet connection ; my top upload speed seems to be something like 100-200ko/s, which isn't very much when there's a lot of people loading various parts of my self-hosted websites :(
  - wizofaus 4y ago
    The link is to a txt file! Anyway the archive link someone else posted seems to work fine (I still can't load the original link).
    - sodimel 4y ago
      Oh, ok. On this folder (https://misc.l3m.in/txt/ https://misc.l3m.in/txt/) there is a link to my main website (won't post the link here in order to reduce the load) and I thought you were talking about it :P Keep refreshing like anyone (I guess), my server is at 1.5% of load average, you should be able to access this txt file, if my slow connection is allowing you to reach my server :/
quickthrower2 4y ago
No navigation. Not RESTful.
- divbzero 4y ago
  I saw this comment yesterday and it bugged me that text/plain doesn’t support links. But maybe we could provide links in headers if we popularized the following HTTP standard [1] [2]? HTTP/1.1 200/OK Link: <https://l3m.in/>; rel="home" Link: <https://misc.l3m.in/txt/>; rel="up" Link: <https://misc.l3m.in/txt/js_ratio.txt>; rel="prev" [1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8288#section-3.5 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8288#section-3.5 [2]: https://www.iana.org/assignments/link-relations/link-relations.xhtml https://www.iana.org/assignments/link-relations/link-relatio...
  - quickthrower2 4y ago
    Is there much advantage over just sending HTML with just the tags: “html body head p a” ? I guess it would be nice for bots to get the set of links in a header.
- sodimel 4y ago
  Navigation is done by hand, remove spam.txt from the url and you're in the index (a small html page listing other posts).
zzo38computer 4y ago
That is because it is a plain text, so it does not have those problems. My opinion is that plain text is good idea.
- sodimel 4y ago
  I always use plain text for HN-related content (it preserves my connection if the link becomes viral (didn't work yesterday)), but for my "official" blog (in french) I only use html/css + my open source php backend (no js, no fancy framework...).

wizofaus 4y ago

Except for the "beautiful webfront" bit, that was my experience too - no popups/banners/ads while waiting patiently for it to finally load the "Connection timed out" page.

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sodimel 4y ago
If you're speaking about l3m.in I removed unused chars from the font I load (using the super tool on fontsquirrel website) in order to make it lighter. I save the banner images in webp format too (with a liiiittle bit of gaussian blur in order to reduce the size even more) :P The real problem here is my internet connection ; my top upload speed seems to be something like 100-200ko/s, which isn't very much when there's a lot of people loading various parts of my self-hosted websites :(
- wizofaus 4y ago
  The link is to a txt file! Anyway the archive link someone else posted seems to work fine (I still can't load the original link).
  - sodimel 4y ago
    Oh, ok. On this folder (https://misc.l3m.in/txt/ https://misc.l3m.in/txt/) there is a link to my main website (won't post the link here in order to reduce the load) and I thought you were talking about it :P Keep refreshing like anyone (I guess), my server is at 1.5% of load average, you should be able to access this txt file, if my slow connection is allowing you to reach my server :/

quickthrower2 4y ago

No navigation. Not RESTful.

divbzero 4y ago
I saw this comment yesterday and it bugged me that text/plain doesn’t support links. But maybe we could provide links in headers if we popularized the following HTTP standard [1] [2]? HTTP/1.1 200/OK Link: <https://l3m.in/>; rel="home" Link: <https://misc.l3m.in/txt/>; rel="up" Link: <https://misc.l3m.in/txt/js_ratio.txt>; rel="prev" [1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8288#section-3.5 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8288#section-3.5 [2]: https://www.iana.org/assignments/link-relations/link-relations.xhtml https://www.iana.org/assignments/link-relations/link-relatio...
- quickthrower2 4y ago
  Is there much advantage over just sending HTML with just the tags: “html body head p a” ? I guess it would be nice for bots to get the set of links in a header.
sodimel 4y ago
Navigation is done by hand, remove spam.txt from the url and you're in the index (a small html page listing other posts).

zzo38computer 4y ago

That is because it is a plain text, so it does not have those problems. My opinion is that plain text is good idea.

sodimel 4y ago
I always use plain text for HN-related content (it preserves my connection if the link becomes viral (didn't work yesterday)), but for my "official" blog (in french) I only use html/css + my open source php backend (no js, no fancy framework...).