An *utter* yak shave of a day, today, that started with
"I'll just test these small changes for a client's #Hugo #StaticSite", progressed into
"why's the production #sitemap.xml borked /before/ I've merged anything?" and is now deep inside
"why does #Netlify's build process work <this way> and not <this way>?".

I give up.

Tomorrow: round 2!

I moved to Vercel this weekend for my website, and have been using #umami for analytics for a few months now. Vercel has a lot of great insights over what #Netlify had to offer.

I just used their docs to deploy my own custom #analytics on #Vercel and it is great! Now I wish I could import the historical data to my new location. Gotta build that up again.

All this to say, it's more to go into my post I've been thinking about writing: The Good Side of Analytics.

It's done. I've finished offloading everything from #netlify.

I think it's time for me to have a personal #website. I think I'll go with #hugo, I'm undecided between hosting it on #netlify or #github pages.

Any advice?

Getting started with #quarto and #netlify blog post:

https://www.riinu.me/2023/08/quarto/
#rstats

Totally — maybe — wrote a function to try and match substrings to the genre returned for the artist I’m currently listening to and then return an appropriate emoji to display https://github.com/cdransf/coryd.dev/blob/880030bfb369d9cf91f24c9ccd0c70177e4c5d49/netlify/edge-functions/now-playing.js#L1 #Eleventy #Netlify #WebDev

How Riot Games reducing building time by 5x with #netlify https://www.netlify.com/blog/riot-games-case-study-bandwidth-optimization/

I’d like to have a set of easy to manage, understandable scripts and git hooks that can replicate what Netlify and their ilk do: atomic builds triggered by git commits, roll-back ability, up-time management, “server less” functions would be nice.

Is there anything like this I can drop onto a VPS or self-host Linux box? Writing it all from scratch is… not great (I’ve been playing with it for one site that has a bit of a server less backend)

2/2

#WebDev #netlify #JAMStack

Yeah I've just put an emergency captcha on my guestbook form (thanks #netlify)! If I can't style it to match my site I'll have to find another way - but seems more spammers than usual are finding it lately...

@joonhyeok_ahn

I organized a web site after the idea of a commonplace book here

https://emv-commonplace.netlify.app

This is still online/supported and published via #Netlify but I have to say the tools for blogs aren't ideal for publishing this sort of thing, and I never really found a good design for hosting it the way I wanted to host it.

(I dunno, this looks now like it might fit within Obsidian Publish.)

#commonplace #pkm

The demise of #Jamstack and #Netlify as an indie-first, "static site" hosting company feels like an end of an era. But why did it have to happen like this? Where did things go wrong? And which companies can #WebDev folks turn to for streamlined, pragmatic web hosting and architecture?

Here's my take on it, serving as a reply of sorts to @remotesynth's excellent coverage of the topic:

https://www.spicyweb.dev/farewell-jamstack/

I just migrated pythonetc.orsinium.dev from #netlify to #cloudflare pages.

Cloudflare pros: Python 3.11 (Netlify is still on 3.8 and no plans to ever upgrade), amazing analytics, unlimited free bandwidth.

Netlify pros: more configuration options, has a config file, friendlier UI.

Both provide PR previews and are easy to use and fast to set up.

I find very puzzling that #Netlify doesn't offer DNSSEC support despite people asking for it since 2019. It is always so disappointing to find forum posts like that.

At this point I think I'll get back to my domain registrar for hosting DNS zones. This is just poor prioritization on Netlify's part.

https://answers.netlify.com/t/dnssec-support-on-netlify/3360

@danilop Meanwhile #netlify is still on #Python 3.8. And when I asked if there are plans to upgrade, they said "we don't have time, fuck off".

I’m sorry to hear the news of layoffs at #netlify. I’ll boost any looking for work posts I see from former Netlify employees. I hope everyone looking for work lands on their feet soon 🙏

Today, I opened my blog again on https://candost.blog

Recently, I moved everything from Ghost to Substack. I couldn't resist the urge of not owning my content. There were more customization I wanted to have and I'm happy to use #Astro (thx @catdadcode) and #netlify

The blog is live and I'll move my focus again to writing more.

Also inspired by #DigitalGarden approach many people took, I am planning to share my notes that I kept to myself so far.

because the svg height/width attributes aren’t set you get a super mega netlify logo each time the #netlify forum pages load #pain

https://answers.netlify.com/t/could-the-admins-add-a-height-and-width-to-the-netlify-logo-on-here-it-drives-me-crazy-on-firefox/97605

@jimleonardo

Did you look at markdown as an option? Markdown allows the use of HTML and there are plenty of static HTML generators.

Something like #Netlify and #Eleventy might be a good fit.

Blogged: we found getting a puppeteer scraper (for @gigbot) working in Netlify functions a real PITA.

But we did!

So we made a demo app + repo so hopefully others won’t have to tread the same miserable path we just did

https://www.blackspike.com/blog/netlify-puppeteer/

#netlify #puppeteer

has anyone got #puppeteer working successfully with #netlify functions? it works locally with the netlify cli but borks out when pushed live.

I’ve tried every possible combination of puppeteer, puppeteer-min, @sparticuz/chromium-min, chrome-aws-lambda and @sparticuz/chromium :(

#webdev