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Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG) News/Views
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Jan Piet Mens ☛ A friend in need ...
Three years ago, a friend of mine purchased a server (one of those horrendously loud things most of us mere mortals thankfully seldom or never get to hear) from a hosting company. The server held a to-him precious application served by a proprietary content management system. He abandoned the CMS at the time because, as I understand it, the monthly price of the CMS was to increase four-fold.
Stuck in a basement, the server itself gathered more dust for three years until my friend decided he wanted the data. The hosting company had told him “just connect it to the internet and you can access your data” which, obviously, is total bollocks – it begins with not owning the domain and ends with a hard-coded IP which belongs to said hosting company.
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AJ Bourg ☛ Big Blog News
I often call our phones “pocket computers” because they are just SO powerful. So I have long thought, “Why don’t we just put together a static site generator that has an interface optimized for phones?” This has been an idea of mine for about 7-8 years. Well earlier this month, I decided to do JUST THAT.
I’m writing this from my own static site generator running on my iPhone. It is designed to be similar to social media, but instead of posting to a social website, it uploads to your own static hosting. Adding images and locations is just a few taps. It handles creating thumbnails and galleries and linking to locations for you. Easy peasy. What I’ve been dreaming up for years.
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Josh Bleecher Snyder ☛ Sometimes Software is Done, or Why Hugo Why
But people kept working on it.
I’m sure that it has been improved in countless ways. But along the way it has gotten bigger and more complicated, and has broken backwards compatibility repeatedly.