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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Sep-2023 22:11:56 JST Aral Balkan

   Working on improving Kitten’s¹ build/deployment process as we get closer to having other developers be able to deploy Small Web places and it has already made a huge difference in Kitten’s build time, cutting it down from ~1.5 - 2 seconds to ~0.5 seconds locally.

   I can’t wait to see the impact it has on speeding up server provisioning for Small Web places as the gains there should be even larger :)

   ¹ https://codeberg.org/kitten/app#kitten

   #Kitten #SmallWeb

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Sep-2023 22:23:00 JST Aral Balkan

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     …Note that this is Kitten’s own build process. As in the process that builds Kitten.

     (Basically, an esbuild of the module loader and main process so as to reduce deployment size as well as packaging together Kitten’s own internal web app.)

     It’s not the build process for Small Web places you build using Kitten.

     Those don’t have a build process.

     Because web development shouldn’t require a build process.

     #Kitten #SmallWeb

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Sep-2023 23:23:57 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Meow :verified:

     @housepanther You do need to know the language but you don’t have to be a master at it.

   • Meow :verified: (housepanther@mstdn.goblackcat.com)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Sep-2023 23:23:58 JST Meow :verified:

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     @aral How good with JavaScript do you have to be to use kitten?

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Sep-2023 23:40:10 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Meow :verified:

     @housepanther Yep. It’s definitely for developers. But is also a good way to learn HTML, CSS, and JS.

     I’ve written up quite a few tutorials that might be fun to follow: https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/#kitten

     (And if you do, I’d love your thoughts on what worked and what was confusing, etc. Eventually those will be on their own site and not in a huge readme, by the way.) :)

   • Meow :verified: (housepanther@mstdn.goblackcat.com)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Sep-2023 23:40:11 JST Meow :verified:

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     @aral Ooof! Okay, I know the very basics. I guess the same is going to apply for CSS?

   • Meow :verified: (housepanther@mstdn.goblackcat.com)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 03:13:02 JST Meow :verified:

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     @aral I will definitely check these out! I want to make my own blog instead of using a canned one like WordPress.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 03:13:02 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Meow :verified:

     @housepanther Cool. Check out the markdown sample app for a *very simple* example of the very basics of a blog:

     https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/main/examples/markdown

     (Please make sure you don’t use that code in production ever; it’s just a sample and there is no error handling, etc.) :)