I just published a first version of my new editor project: Wordgard!
@marijn Great article, and bravo on the new project!
"Speaking of companies I don't like—regardless of license, it is clear to me that the “AI” vultures will slurp up my code and all the hard-won ideas it contains moments after I publish this.”.. Sad but true.
".. I'm doing an experiment where I don't take pull requests for Wordgard”-- things indeed are changing and a read-only repo is the way to go for more tranquility and focus.
"I design and build my systems by hand.” -- Love it!
@marijn in case you aren't already aware, wordgard.net/try seems to be broken (at least in Safari and Firefox): “The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://wordgard.net/try/sandbox.js”
@marijn excellent!! also, lol at retreading the same ground over and over, i am with you https://mastodon.social/@wingo/116680166265338046
Also check out the project website, featuring amazing illustrations by Kamila Stankiewicz: https://wordgard.net
@marijn I’ve said this before, but I’ll say it again, your philosophy, approach and sheer productivity are admirable. I’m excited to learn more about it and dive into Wordgard.
Thank you for being an inspiration in these bleak days. 😊
@marijn lovely stuff. I wish OSS projects would just use mailing lists though. Having to create a login/password to access a JS driven UI is really a huge step backwards on so many fronts.
@swannodette You mean the discourse forum? You can read that just fine without login, no? I'm not a huge fan of how heavyweight that is, but I do definitely prefer it to the experience of a mailing list. There's no halfway decent OSS alternative that I'm aware of, beyond maybe Zulip, which is weird in its own way.
@marijn I'll say this. Your website looks beautiful in New Moon (a fork of Pale Moon), kudos. I cannot view your forums. This is via NetBSD 10.1 on a 10 year old computer that I use to check my own stuff for problems that can be avoided if people would simply look past mainstream "solutions".
@swannodette Hahah yeah, I can imagine. It's a Ruby on Rails atrocity which won't even get out of bed without JavaScript. I acknowledge the problem, but have found no satisfactory solution so far.
@janl @swannodette Do it.
(I've seriously considered going down that road, but realized it'd be more work than I'm willing to commit to.)
@marijn @swannodette Node/TypeScript + DB of my choice ok? Easy deploy with docker-compose. Or should this really be a single static Go binary liek Forgejo? (I wouldn‘t write that, tho)
@janl Please don't actually do this! It's an endless rabbit hole of user management, spam protection, email notifications, posting UX, etc... I'd feel guilty.
@janl But yeah, it's hard to stop thinking about how much more minimal it could be. My stupid little forums are consuming over 11gb of disks space and a ton of memory and it's hard to bear.
@tisba Ah right, forgot to configure the access-control headers. Thanks for letting me know! Should work now.
@marijn you're very welcome! the project looks very interesting, thanks a lot for sharing!
@marijn I’mma have to look through all this in more detail, but exciting. Also, strong “same” feelings on re-re-re-re-building the same thing in different shapes. It’s databases for me ;D