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Static dynamic is a marketing trick. If truth be told a lot of tech marketing is highly suspicious…
“The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.”
I don’t know who said that, but that quote sums it all up.
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Flexbox as a base layout is convenient but tricky due to or “jank”. If the dimensions of the base flex container(s) are ambiguous, then the browser constantly recomputes the dimensions as streams in.
My favorite trick is to give the browser dimension hints and avoid computational
properties like flex.
Set as many dimensions (width/height) as possible unambiguously. My Internet
speed is sufficiently slow enough that I can see layout shifts in many sites,
including my own (this micro blog).
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The
“CSS router”
has always been quite the clever trick for navigating sufficiently small sites.
This site uses it to scroll switch pages, and
portable.fyi gets clever with visibility :target
switching. Do it just right and no one notices unless they “inspect the
elements”.
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It’s always humbling when I get around to reading a web related spec. and have a lot of functionality. JavaScript’s not bad (it’s the easiest part of web development) but gives you just enough rope to do super silly things like reinventing all built in browser functions.
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White spaces in trick many into writing complex — web development is trollish that way. Firefox’s developer tools show generated white spaces! Hopefully your abstraction is munging HTML faithfully. It’s easy to fight white spaces without realising it. That generally leads to using unsuitable display types and other shenanigans.
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WordPress rants are a joy to read, but where’s the simpler, safer replacement? Never forget that software is highly corporatized and mostly crafted for corporations, not humans. WordPress sits among the few that mere mortals can work with and understand. The complete revival of static sites might save us, maybe.
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php -S 127.0.0.1:8080Take the innocent PHP web server
cli. Best not to use PHP’s web server
cli (even for PHP) because routes with a dot (.) are
assumed to be
static files. Use a real web server
or superior cli web servers with minor gotchas.
python -m http.server --bind 127.0.0.1 8080
busybox httpd -f -p 127.0.0.1:8080
ruby -run -e httpd . -p 8080Another wandering soul whispering into the void. If you are looking for my blog you are in the wrong place. The profile and header pictures are brought to you by cdd20.
I might try out the Fresh framework from
deno to see if the hype is true hype.
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Reading about the Fresh framework lead me to an article about islands architecture and progressive hydration. “Island based client hydration” looks like a type of progressive enhancement.
Wonder how an adjustment to that theory pans out? Might be enough of a golden hammer for most use cases but , scaling/speed issues are more fundamental/situational. You could swap between or hybridize client/server all you want and still mess up.
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Hugo has
template performance metrics
with the --templateMetrics flag. Here’s a snippet of the metrics for this
site.
$ hugo --templateMetrics
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hugo v0.101.0+extended linux/amd64 BuildDate=unknown
Template Metrics:
cumulative average maximum
duration duration duration count template
---------- -------- -------- ----- --------
7.278303484s 49.177726ms 237.175705ms 148 partials/generate-feeds.html
7.22797312s 112.93708ms 246.988674ms 64 _default/single.html
6.982028147s 83.119382ms 245.262274ms 84 partials/navigator-right.html
6.683942678s 47.070018ms 237.223569ms 142 partials/web-ring.html
1.685089741s 5.561352ms 28.254398ms 303 _default/summary.html