Notices by C.Cameron (cameron@linuxrocks.online), page 5

@Linux
That looks awesome. Looking forward to specifics about production and availability...

@omnipotens @G_Dog1985 @hund @architect
Thank you for all y'all do to keep LinuxRocks going strong, and make it a joy to be a part of!

@hund
Nice! I love that color scheme.

@vos
Right!?

I recently realized that we had a "smart" thermostat installed. I don't need to change the temperature from my phone, so I turned off the internet connection to it.

What's weird, is that it previously had a big delay after pressing a button to change the temperature one degree, press again, big lag. After I turned off the internet, there's suddenly no delay.

So I don't know who it was trying to send that info to, but it's a little creepy.

@tapaniraja
Ugh, that's a bummer.

@tapaniraja
I'm not professional at any of this, but I would think so. I always feel uncomfortable with a pile of plugins and themes from various developers that I'm just trusting to be safe, but can't really be sure.

@omnipotens
Yes indeed! :)

@lifeofdan
Me too! I've been using Hugo as well for a different site, and am a huge fan of the static site trend.

@keithzg
That sounds pretty sweet. I don't actually know PHP (I'm not a programmer), it was just the simplest way I could figure out to pull in a single file for the header and navigation, so I wouldn't have to make changes on every page to update the menu.

Exactly! I feel like I was using way more complication than necessary to accomplish a simple task, so stripping it down feels pretty fun.

@hund
That's cool. I tried Jekyll, and wound up using Hugo. It's possible I wasn't patient enough to get it up and running and fully appreciate it though. :)

@jason @kev @hund

I tried out Jekyll, and found I preferred Hugo, but haven't tried HTMLy. So many new things to try that I hadn't even heard of!

@kev @ChrisWere
I still use wordpress too so I'm not dissing it. But Grav looks awesome. I am doing a new site in wordpress specifically because I need to hand it over to be managed in the future by ladies who are not tech savvy. So a best of both worlds option would be great.

Yeah, comments sound like a huge hassle. Maybe that'll be built into one of these static site or flat file CMS systems one of these days...

@alainsanguinetti
I do like those a lot too. I have been using Hugo for my small blog site.

A lot of small businesses use huge clunky database sites, when a minimal site like this would serve them way better. (In my opinionated opinion.)

It's not for everyone maybe, but I think handcoding a web site in html and css is less work than doing a comparable site in wordpress. Just text, links and image galleries, and a couple php tags so I can use one menu across all pages.

Maybe I'll think about a way to add a form eventually, but that's not important right now.

I'm pumped about my 1.2 second load time, and that's before I've optimized images.

I told my friend about it and she did not understand the joy this brings. 😆

@ChrisWere @prismo @ChrisWere
That looks cool. It's so exciting how many groovy fediverse projects keep popping up.