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Webgen - How Zed Shaw managed to be slashdotted/reddited/yc.newsed and survive
- luccastera 19y agoHe talks about it in his latest post: http://www.zedshaw.com/blog/2008-01-04.html http://www.zedshaw.com/blog/2008-01-04.html
- crayz 19y agonginx also deserves credit, it's an amazing little webserver
- david 19y agoWasn't "webgen" an early name for Viaweb?
- daniel-cussen 19y agoYeah, isn't this what they wanted to call their project at the outset?
- mhartl 19y agoIt was: http://www.paulgraham.com/bronze.html http://www.paulgraham.com/bronze.html
- wmf 19y agoStatic content faster than dynamic content - YouTube at 11! I guess the real story here is that many people have become so accustomed to using dynamic techniques (with the added benefit of no caching whatsoever) and/or the world's slowest Web server software to serve essentially static content, that they don't even see the overhead.
- Tichy 19y agoAlthough I wonder, what exactly is static content? I seem to remember the YouTubers having a problem with serving thumbnails. Finding a file on the file system and serving it is also a "dynamic action" in a way, or isn't it?
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- hhm 19y agoI used to use my own static web generator following a similar approach (template + content). It was some kind of html preprocessor and it was very useful for generating a static site with menus, skin, etc... I think it was a mistake never to publish it somewhere, as it was very nice at least for my own needs.