Last year I created a sample blog called #pondlife to show how to create a basic blog in Web Origami.| jan.miksovsky.com
Using the async-tree library substantially cuts down the source code for a minimalist static site generator (SSG) in JavaScript, at a very modest cost in dependencies. The result is still fast and flexible.| Jan Miksovsky’s blog
Configuring a complex tool can take more work that just coding the functionality you want from scratch. In the last post I described creating a simple blog in Astro, a popular static site generator (SSG). The Astro solution felt more complicated than the problem justified, so I rewrote the entire blog project from scratch in pure JavaScript with zero dependencies.| Jan Miksovsky’s blog
I took my best shot at recreating a small blog in Astro, a popular static site generator (SSG), so I could compare it with Web Origami and other ways to build a blog.| jan.miksovsky.com
When my kids were young, we did lots of science and engineering things with them to entertain them or just to alleviate boredom.| jan.miksovsky.com
The open source WESL (#WebGPU Shading Language) project recently launched a new WESL documentation site. While helping the group create their site, I realized they could pull their markdown content directly from the places they already keep it.| Jan Miksovsky’s blog
VS Code is moving towards letting people write VS Code extensions directly in native ES modules but as of this writing it’s still not possible.| jan.miksovsky.com
I’ve posted a short introduction to the Origami language in the form of a motion comic you can play in your browser: ## Lessons from the audio/video experiment This comic builds on last month’s experiment to automate the generation of the audio and video for a screencast in which I was searching for a better way to create video content for the Web Origami project and the Origami language.| jan.miksovsky.com
It’s always useful for me at the end of the year to reflect back on the past year’s work.| jan.miksovsky.com
I’ve posted a new Origami intro screencast that covers some of the basics of the Origami language: This screencast doesn’t give a complete introduction yet, but I think the production process I’m using is itself interesting and worth sharing.| jan.miksovsky.com