indieweb(2/0)
Display backlink preview on hover
The combination of microformat2 h-entry and backlinks is potent. Each note page that’s marked up with a e-content microformat2 property can be retrieved via fetch() and displayed as a preview elsewhere on the site. No database required; the website is the API. With these two snippets you can implement dynamic backlink functionality on pretty much any webpage. With a little standardization (mostly complete by the microformat2 standard), one could support backlinks across websites.…
SSG is a developer tool
While I agree with much of Florens’ critique, I think the static site concept has a different purpose than he suggests. I think static site generators (SSGs) are a response by the developer community to the complications that have arisen from client-heavy websites. If non-developer users find them difficult to use, it’s not really a critique since they aren’t the intended audience. At its best, an SSG should be one step in a development pipeline; more like a developer tool than an all-in-one website builder.…