Small Technology Foundation Personal Web Prototype-01: an always-connected portable personal web server that fits in your pocket. Imagine holding your personal web site in the palm of your hand. Imagine carrying the digital aspects of your self in your pocket instead of having them on some abstract cloud under the watchful eye of some faceless multinational corporation1. Personal Web Prototype-01 from Small Technology Foundation R&D achieves the former using widely available off-the-shelf par...| Aral Balkan
When you change the source code for a dynamic route, your Site.js server automatically reloads.| Aral Balkan
Site.js version 12.9.6 improves the developer experience with live reload support for static pages.| Aral Balkan
Blogception: a post on VSCodium as it’s being written in VSCodium. I am writing this blog post in VSCodium. What? Is that like VSCode? Yes, it’s basically VSCode minus the corporate bullshit like surveillance and proprietary-licensed binaries. An ode to VSCode VSCode is the best code editor I’ve ever used. It’s actually rather delightful. There, I’ve said it – and I’ve used a lot of editors across 30+ years of programming.| Aral Balkan
Yesterday, I asked folks following me on my Mastodon1, if they’d help me blow up my Raspberry Pi Zero W: A story in three toots… Earlier this week, I got to test Site.js on the Pi Zero and saw that it runs flawlessly. Using ngrok, I exposed the Pi to the harsh and cruel Interwebs and then – for the fun of it – decided to see what would happen if lots of folks hit it at the same time.| Aral Balkan
Earlier today: the new update command seamlessly updating and restarting Site.js on SiteJS.org. I just released Site.js version 12.9.5. This version brings with it some new commands, the most important of which is the update command1. # Update Site.js to the latest version. site update The update command does what it says on the tin and updates your copy of Site.js to the latest version. If Site.| Aral Balkan
Chatting about Pi, on a Pi, with a chat server running on Site.js on the same Pi. Yesterday, I released Site.js 12.8.0 which brings initial ARM support for Linux. What that means is that it’s now easier than ever to get a static or dynamic (Node.js) web server up and running on a Raspberry Pi. Site.js on my Raspberry Pi, serving the basic chat app in the first screenshot.| Aral Balkan