PinkPigeon

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by PinkPigeon 5y ago
Let me chime in as someone developing a no-code website builder. Wix are in a similar space as us in fact, though that doesn't matter for the point I am about to make: No-code only works in a very limited context. Whether that will eve
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by PinkPigeon 5y ago
I am not an AI expert by any stretch of the imagination, but have done a reasonable amount of programming. What excites me about this is the ability to extend something like scripting with ordinary-language instructions to a computer. What
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by PinkPigeon 5y ago
It should not affect rankings. Technically, traffic should improve by having multiple locales. With our sites at ( https://pinkpigeon.co.uk ), we use sub-directories, such as example.com/fr. This guy has some good info (but i
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by PinkPigeon 5y ago
This is very insightful, thank you. Funnily enough I am planning to do a similar thing fairly soon and you have helped confirm my suspicion that this is an excellent idea. Did you encounter any scaling issues during this process?
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by PinkPigeon 5y ago
That's pretty impressive. Hugo appears to have a steady growth in overhead right up until the point where elde.js overtakes it when the number of pages hits 10,000.
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by PinkPigeon 5y ago
> Opinionatedness is a good thing when a problem has no consensus solution, yet a decision needs to be made. This is an excellent and concise way to sum it up.
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by PinkPigeon 5y ago
Love this. Gonna remember it.
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by PinkPigeon 5y ago
I have added myself to your waiting list. Any indication of when you will let new users in? Some feedback: I think it would be good to know that new users have to add their email address and are then added to a waiting list. I was really ex
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by PinkPigeon 5y ago
Sounds very interesting. I am particularly fond of anyone trying to reach less technologically inclined users (been working in that space for a couple of years now. You quickly learn that software devs do not reason about websites / ap
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by PinkPigeon 5y ago
> What are some tools, libraries or services you built I made a website builder and CMS, because the world really needed another one of those :) > are they open-source Not currently, but I keep wondering whether that might be a route
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by PinkPigeon 5y ago
> A Highly Optimized Build Process: that will span as many CPU cores as you can throw at it to make building your site as fast as possible. For reference, Elder.js easily generates a data intensive 18,000 page site in 8 minutes using a b
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by PinkPigeon 5y ago
Was just going to say: I have only experienced one thing that branded itself opionionated, which was a CSS (reset) file. So many unexpected behaviours that were really hard to diagnose. I am now very wary of things calling themselves opinio
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by PinkPigeon 5y ago
Very good point about LocalStorage, I haven't explored that avenue yet. Re your second point, unfortunately with my product this works a bit differently. I'm generating static websites in the background, as part of a realtime-prev
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by PinkPigeon 5y ago
Yeah, I can't stand those videos. With anything I do, it's straight to the content and as short as possible always. Though I agree with you about videos in general. I always prefer text-based tutorials. But many friends of mine ar
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by PinkPigeon 5y ago
Fantastic tips. I think some of that will end up in my own work.
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by PinkPigeon 5y ago
So I think this is an excellent point. I'd love to do something like that for my product as well. However, there are a few considerations, some of bigger consequence than others: - How do you keep users from losing their data when they
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by PinkPigeon 5y ago
FF 88.0 64bit Manjaro here, loads fine. Just as another Linux datapoint.
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by PinkPigeon 5y ago
> Sounds like you built something for yourself Absolutely! That appears to be how all of my projects start. If I have a need for something, I'll go build it for myself. That way I am ensuring I am using my own product, which I find
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by PinkPigeon 5y ago
Ah, you are right, my wording was imprecise. If using something like snipcart, you can then have a whole shop without you yourself having to maintain or admin a DB, it's all managed by a third party. They do, however, still maintain a
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by PinkPigeon 5y ago
It's sort of funny to see how this has suddenly become such a big term. I started out building a CMS that deploys static sites. I did that because I didn't want to deal with DBs / Wordpress, etc. I just wanted to quickly thr
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by PinkPigeon 5y ago
I can at least answer this for my 'Jamstack' product (I think it might be accidentally 'Jamstack', as I only recently found out that this refers to static pages with no DB etc). I wanted to just have a sensible frontend
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by PinkPigeon 5y ago
Well, funnily enough, I have also found existing site builders to be insufficient in various ways. Firstly, I do not believe that the block-based approach works that well. It sounds great on paper, to be able to drag and drop block-like ele
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by PinkPigeon 5y ago
Our project started on a free Heroku tier (which funnily enough, to this day, is the reason our DB is postgres), but quickly outgrew that and I heard horror stories about how quickly it got expensive. We then switched to the cheapest Hetzne
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by PinkPigeon 5y ago
Lots of very insightful comments already, I only have one thing to contribute, which is a spelling correction: "Since the piston moves down twice and up twice, it does a total of four strokes and the engine we’ve build is known as a fo
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by PinkPigeon 5y ago
Same here! I had a lot of fun with this lecture series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftIllWczf5w
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by PinkPigeon 5y ago
What's everyone's opinion on simply forcing users of IE11 to upgrade / use a different browser? I understand that one should aim for a certain level of backward compatibility, but when does the time come to drop IE11 support
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by PinkPigeon 5y ago
Some noteworthy caveats from my experience with CSS grids: - Particularly in Firefox they are much slower. When grids start to pile up on a page, performance goes down the drain - Implicit row-sizing is not really a thing in Safari or iOS -
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by PinkPigeon 5y ago
"Long says she doesn’t see how Monzo can become profitable without a “radical change” to its business model." In the article they allude to Monzo not doing much (enough?) lending, such as offering mortgages or credit cards. This i
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by PinkPigeon 5y ago
Might I note that you are also lacking an SSL certificate, which marks your site as 'not secure' and can trigger various anti-phishing protections in browsers and firewalls. I am not sure what you mean by 'convert wordpress&#
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by PinkPigeon 5y ago
I can't praise Dokku enough. I am coming up to two years of running all my infra on it, not one problem that I hadn't caused in that time. Highly recommended.

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