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Newest post: nagi miniweb: keeping it stupid
§ Background ^
Yesterday I was thinking about adding a Wander console to my site and losing enthusiam by the minute.
It's a cool project, but it's JavaScript-based, and I don't want to add any of that to my site if I can avoid it; I figured if it was really cool, I could make an exception. So, I set about trying to extend it to solve a problem raised on the issue tracker: people put the root domain in their site lists, instead of a good post. I figured, how hard can it be to use js to fetch the document, look for
<link type="application(rss|atom)+xml">, then fetch the feed and grab the first post? Well, probably not very hard if you're good at Computer, but I kept running into problems. Sites can set security policies that my own browser will betray me by respecting. And it seemed like I might realistically need to use a dependency in order to parse the RSS, which I didn't want to do, and I was just... slowly losing interest in the whole thing.Besides, I didn't even know what sites I would put in my console. That reminded me, I never submitted my site to Kagi Smallweb.1 Hey, that's open-source, right? What if I just dump those into my console? It did technically work, but it was slow. And uh... what was even the point? Then I remembered a post I'd seen on the bugtracker complaining that KSW doesn't work in terminal browsers. I tested it in a few, and yeah, it really didn't work at all. And it really ought to. Hm, I can do this. How hard could it be?
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