Web, Web Management Systems, and Education on HTML

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 08, 2026

• Web Browsers/Web Servers/Feed Readers

  • Kopper ☛ the web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale

    lets say you want to make a web thing that you intend other people to host on their own servers. unfortunately, by thinking this very thought you immediately locked your codebase out of several efficiency tricks other software intended to be hosted privately can make use of, and you have now burdened yourself with reinventing several wheels others have already done better. let’s start out with a baseline, which we’ll add to as requirements change: [...]

• Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG)

  • Sal ☛ I published my drafts: lessons learned and steps taken

    I can’t know for sure, but here’s what I suspect happened.

  • Michael Harley ☛ How I make my blog posts more resilient

    I recently completed importing a backup of some of my old blog posts. These posts were from 2012 - 2019 and required a fair bit of editing because I was using embeds from other sites, some of which have since been purchased and shut down.

    Here are my lessons learned, focusing on my posts only and not the hosting problem of keeping a site online for a long time after I've shuffled off this mortal coil.

  • Jeremy Cherfas ☛ Site Update

    Everything else works fine, as far as I can tell. Of course, if it isn’t for you, I’d appreciate being told.

  • David Yates ☛ Static websites and right-sizing software

    From then on, I became an advocate for using static site generators to host blogs, marketing sites, documentation and other sites that don’t maintain significant user state. Where specific points of interactivity are needed – say, a contact form – that can be handled with a single-purpose hosted endpoint; it doesn’t require bolting on a whole application server and database. You can, of course, go too far with this – I’ve spoken before about the pitfalls of platforms like Firebase that encourage building highly interactive apps without server-side code by letting clients directly access the database.

    But if your website mostly serves the same pages to everyone, you’ll probably be fine with pre-generated HTML. The trouble comes in when people need to edit it.

• Education

  • Naty S ☛ HTML Day: How to Join the Annual HTML Energy Event

    Hand write, raw Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and make a webpage during the worldwide event, held in early August each year. Read HTML Energy’s Goals page to learn more.

  • HTML Energy ☛ html energy

    HTML Energy has 3 goals right now: [...]