Post #4505562

2026-07-20 13:17 UTC

@aredridel@kolektiva.social i've seen some projects that try to bring the magic of static sites to everyone but I don't think I've really seen anything that I'd want to recommend to a friend yet. I'm curious to see what happens with Build Awesome Pro https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fontawesome/build-awesome-pro

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@aredridel@kolektiva.social 2026-07-20 13:37

@b0rk@social.jvns.ca Oh whoa I didn't realize 11ty had rebranded. That 'build in browser' is actually really interesting and I think they might be tilting at something good there. I've long thought that S3-flavored storage (only with authentication that doesn't suck with access keys) might be a sufficient foundation for a web builder tool. It could store index data in the bucket too for its operations, and build HTML pages and store them there, ready to directly serve. Something like that could live on top of that pretty easily. The only thing missing from the old ethos is the 'sysadmin mindset' of shared hosting where some curmudgeonly nerd maintained a community host, ruled the technical aspects with an iron fist, but by gum there was no way to stop them if the server went down. The difference was that they were a person, not a platform, and mediating a shared resource. https://m.xkcd.com/705/

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