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Re: Low-Tech Magazine, now solar-powered!
etc wrote #319350:
achieved via apache server cache and
<txp:header />tag. We just need to make the configuration easier for non-techy users.
Any and all initiatives that make Textpattern The Green CMS get my vote.
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Re: Low-Tech Magazine, now solar-powered!
etc wrote #319350:
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not into reinventing a 15th wheel as Pete rightly alludes to. Static site ability means serving pages directly from disk, bypassing unnecessary PHP/MySQL processing when the page is not changed. But this can already be achieved via apache server cache and
<txp:header />tag. We just need to make the configuration easier for non-techy users.
Indeed. What I was thinking of, was to make either old versions of my sites or even defunct subdomains into static sites. In this way, we would not need to worry about php upgrades for those versions/content/etc and we will be able to keep our active sites updated with the latest and finest.
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Re: Low-Tech Magazine, now solar-powered!
colak wrote #319352:
make either old versions of my sites or even defunct subdomains into static sites.
A plugin could generate static copies of visited pages on the first access, but making an entire txp site static looks problematic: you’d have to treat all possible author/category/section/etc combinations, without even speaking of free-form keywords or search queries.
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Re: Low-Tech Magazine, now solar-powered!
colak wrote #319352:
What I was thinking of, was to make either old versions of my sites or even defunct subdomains into static sites.
Recursive curl or wget? Perhaps make a sitemap.xml and point the downloader at it?
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Re: Low-Tech Magazine, now solar-powered!
etc wrote #319343:
Unfortunately, after reading this
we should power txp off. Or add a static site generator ability.
In 1998, I started using FrontPage to make websites. It was great. You could sit down at your computer, make changes to your website, hit update and watch them magically appear on the site.
Then came Greymatter and Movable Type and Textpattern – you could update the site from anywhere just by logging in. It didn’t even matter what computer you were on, and if you have an RPC client, if you were on a computer.
I get the appeal of static site generators – I had a hosting account one time that didn’t offer PHP, PERL, or any kind of scripting language – but to me they are always kind of a step backwards. And yes, I know that https://docs.textpattern.com/is powered by Jekyll.
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Re: Low-Tech Magazine, now solar-powered!
michaelkpate wrote #319367:
And yes, I know that https://docs.textpattern.com/is powered by Jekyll.
i didn’t know that…
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Re: Low-Tech Magazine, now solar-powered!
bici wrote #319378:
i didn’t know that…
Since 2016.
philwareham wrote #301225:
We are using Jekyll since it is the right tool for this – that simply means we are dumping MediaWiki for Jekyll for collaborative documentation. Textpattern hasn’t _lost_here since it wasn’t ever running the docs in the first place.
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Re: Low-Tech Magazine, now solar-powered!
Destry wrote #314170:
Yesterday I discovered Low-Tech Magazine, which has been online since 2007. I don’t know how I have missed it for so long, but sadly I have, until yesterday. That’s when someone shared news about their new off-grid solar-powered version of the site, which they are migrating to permanently.
Just in case anybody is online now. Kris De Decker of Low tech mag is live on live.descon.me/b/bbb-auf-dfb-nbl.
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Re: Low-Tech Magazine, now solar-powered!
A good recent article on LTM by de Decker
How and why I stopped buying new laptops
I need to make a decision in this direction soon, too, but I’m not sure in what way yet. High Sierra won’t remain supported forever and I can’t just make a sudden switch to Linux. I’ll need some time on the learning curve. A second machine, maybe. But I can’t buy new Apple gear either.
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Re: Low-Tech Magazine, now solar-powered!
Destry wrote #327754:
High Sierra won’t remain supported forever and I can’t just make a sudden switch to Linux.
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A second machine, maybe. But I can’t buy new Apple gear either.
2012-era MacBook Pros, minis and anything else with a Core i5 is the sweet spot. Good prices, still use SATA interfaces for cheap-ish drives, and runs everything up to Catalina. Mojave is a nice balance of being vendor-supported and runs 32-bit software (assuming it has Mojave support in itself).
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gaekwad wrote #327760:
2012-era MacBook Pros, minis and anything else with a Core i5 is the sweet spot. Good prices, still use SATA interfaces for cheap-ish drives, and runs everything up to Catalina.
Thanks for that insight. I’ve been hearing a lot about Back Market lately for being a good place to buy used/refurb hardware, and they have plenty of ’sweet spot’ available.
The other part of this, of course, is knowing how to swap out and change components over time, and having a machine that doesn’t make that near impossible by design/engineering . Don’t know about Mid 2012 MBPs. I tried to work on a Mitsubishi once, and it was a disaster. Died on the operating table.
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Re: Low-Tech Magazine, now solar-powered!
Destry wrote #327762:
The other part of this, of course, is knowing how to swap out and change components over time… and … Died on the operating table.
for some of us it’s best to avoid doing anything that leads to the latter part. Luckily here about we have The Hackery that has lots of older arts and fixes things as well. They are wizards
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