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by Seirdy 6y ago
Most sites should just need one low-res (32px) and one high-res (192px) icon; re-use the high-res icon as an apple-touch-icon (it's supposed to be 180px, but 192px is close enough) and you're good to go. It's important to rem
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by Seirdy 6y ago
I'd go a step further, and say that most sites don't need cookies either. I wrote about it elsewhere a few days ago: > Avoid having to put annoying EU cookie consent dialogs on your website with one weird trick: > Don't
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by Seirdy 6y ago
That's not what I said. With some emphasis added: > When this happens , you can spin up a temporary server and have a mechanism in place to redirect email so you don't go down when your provider does. Use a commercial provid
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by Seirdy 6y ago
This is another good reason to have email @yourowndomain.tld When this happens, you can spin up a temporary server and have a mechanism in place to redirect email so you don't go down when your provider does.
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by Seirdy 6y ago
Oh, hello there again! It's always good to see people testing their site on non-mainstream user-agents. Some other terminal user-agents to try: rdrview, go-readability: these are CLI utilities that use Mozilla's Readability algori
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by Seirdy 6y ago
I use mpd scripts to auto-generate a list of my favorite songs and upload them to my site [0] [1]. [0]: https://seirdy.one/music.txt [1]: gemini://seirdy.one/music.txt I summed up my music preferences on my s
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by Seirdy 6y ago
Refined GitHub was just updated to support it a few mins ago. A couple rough edges but it works now.
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by Seirdy 6y ago
> Are you only going to offer support for the basic text version? In that case, aren't you still kind off deciding how it looks, only now it looks ugly? You can do both. Offer CSS, but keep the site usable without it. The same goes
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by Seirdy 6y ago
No, just one global stylesheet that all websites obey without breaking. The (dead) dream of the ideal user agent is a program that lets you browse with your preferred color scheme, fonts, font size, etc; websites look just like any other pr
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by Seirdy 6y ago
A quick 'n dirty userstyle for Refined GH users: @-moz-document domain("github.com") { .dashboard .js-all-activity-header + div { background-color: inherit !important; border: 1px solid var(--color-bord
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by Seirdy 6y ago
This reminds me of something I once wrote in a conversation about the phrase "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" wrt web technologies: When a tool's convenience grows faster than its reliability and
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by Seirdy 6y ago
Not all sites should leverage the features of this "powerful platform." A blog doesn't need to be an app. Every piece of complexity you add to something has a cost. Here's a list of ways people consume web content beside
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by Seirdy 6y ago
> These people don't represent anyone's customer base and can be pretty much ignored on the basis that they are curmudgeonly tech contrarians. They can't be sold to anyway, so who cares. Thankfully, the Web is not exclusiv
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by Seirdy 6y ago
Yeah, the 250kb club had a couple users submit initial criticism for the same reason; it responded by mirroring on sr.ht and setting up mailing lists, giving others the choice to use either.
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by Seirdy 6y ago
> The criteria for this "club" is so narrow, even Hacker News wouldn't even be eligible! Is that really what we should be striving for? No, it's what this club is striving for. This club isn't advocating for 100%
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by Seirdy 6y ago
Both bombadillo and amfora are great! I love bombadillo's cross-protocol nature (lots of small-internet sites mix WWW, Gemini, and Gopher links) and how it aligns links (indices in the margins), but I also love Amfora's syntax hi
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by Seirdy 6y ago
Love your website, but I'm not sure it need to follow this post's advice since it isn't exactly a text-based website; retro graphics are clearly a big part of its content. I'd be missing a lot if I just used my browser&#
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by Seirdy 6y ago
I decided to expand this to its own article: https://seirdy.one/2020/11/23/website-best-practices.html . Discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25193874
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An opinionated list of best practices for textual websites(seirdy.one)
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A non-exhaustive list of good practices for webpages that focus on text: - Final page weight under 128kb, without compression - Works in Lynx, w3m, Elinks, Netsurf, Dillo, and most HTML-to-markdown converters - No scripts or interactivity (
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by Seirdy 6y ago
A good way to go about this would be comparing the page's footprint in bytes with the page's text: w3m $SITE -dump | wc -c
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The Gemini and Gopher communities welcome you!
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/unjerk Try POSIX sh and awk first; don't use bashisms or gawk features unless you need to.
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by Seirdy 6y ago
So this auto-posts our articles to its own link aggregator? How is that better than Hacker News, mainstream social media, Lobste.rs, the Fediverse, chatrooms, and webrings? Is the advantage that their aggregator exclusively contains content
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by Seirdy 6y ago
How is this any different from using a typical static site generator and posting links to your blog to your preferred social outlet? Local setup for a static site repo is trivial if you use an existing repo as a starting point. Most static
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Amazing that they managed to condense pretty much all of https://dev.to into 625 words.
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This looks like a clone of rclone that supports fewer services, built by a company whose main product is a proprietary filesystem.
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How timely; I just got my website and gemini capsule up and running. [0]: https://seirdy.one my website [1]: gemini://seirdy.one my gemini capsule [2]: https://git.sr.ht/~seirdy/seirdy.one websi
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by Seirdy 6y ago
Interaction should be possible if the necessary APIs are implemented. Pleroma, Mastodon, Peertube, Pixelfed, etc. can already all interact with each other very well; just a few minutes ago, I was able to comment [0] [1] on a Peertube video
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by Seirdy 6y ago
There exist a number of self-described free speech extremist instances, and moderated instances that only blacklist spammers like bot servers. There also exist instances that will blacklist servers with high levels of hate speech. You can p

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