I do a check for `request.htmx` in my views and conditionally return a template partial as needed. This reduced my need for one-off view functions that were only returning partials for htmx. Works pretty well from my experience.
You can see posts on any server to "find out what the vibe is" without registering. For example: https://fosstodon.org/public/local. What are the transactional costs here?
>Stop trying to make Mastodon be Twitter. If that's what you want, go use Twitter.
I don't see how using an optional, open-source, non-chronological feed means that someone should just "go use Twitter". For one, the incentives are completely different between Twitter which generates revenue based on engaging users (and juicing subsequent algorithms), and someone who builds a separate feed interface for Mastodon.
>I don't get this mentality of "I like X, but I don't want to use X, so imma go turn Y into X" some devs seem to have.
Developers like to solve problems and build things. I've re-created other projects and products lots of times. Why is it a problem what someone chooses to do with their own time for their own reasons?
>Playing into people's FOMO is what got the Internet into the rat's nest
Disagree. Incentives tied to advertising-based business models is the root cause here, not FOMO.
Disclaimer: I made my own alternative timeline for Mastodon as well, so I'm pretty biased. :)
I'm the creator of Unicorn, so this is neat to see it on Hacker News again. I've been working on Unicorn nights and weekends since July 2020, slowly adding in new functionality and improving it. I have a conference talk explaining the origins a little bit: https://github.com/adamghill/djangocon-eu-2021-conference-ta....
I never expected Unicorn to completely replace larger SPA frameworks, but I have found it solves for most of the use cases I need for my sites.
Thanks for checking it out -- all PRs are greatly appreciated to add new features or fix bugs!
I had the exact same problem with Render, but I wouldn't expect them to handle this situation because I'm guessing it's kind of an edge case? I ended up using a DigitalOcean Droplet + CapRover to do this, and then wrote a giant article detailing all my steps in case that's useful: https://alldjango.com/articles/serve-multiple-django-sites-f....
>I find it ironic this website is written in Python. It's a single HTML page. Make it a static site and host it for free/low-cost on S3 or something. Why do you need to host this website on a server, use Docker, etc?
Originally it _was_ just HTML + CSS, but I wanted each library's repository metadata (latest version, last commit, etc) to be dynamically retrieved and doing that client-side was brittle and way too slow. So, I used it as an excuse to see how far I could push my own personal static-site framework (https://coltrane.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).
Maybe! I was messing with different UI approaches to relay this data and this made sense to me, but I'll see if switching to rows is more clear. Thanks for the idea!
It definitely might make more sense that way! I was playing around with different ways to display the data and landed on this approach even though maybe it's a little clunky. I could flip it and see how it feels -- thanks for the suggestion!
Not requiring NPM was one of my original requirements for anything on this list. All of these libraries should be available from HTML directly -- let me know or make a PR if that isn't the case.
It's there because some libraries explicitly call it out as a benefit so I included it. The code is OSS (https://github.com/adamghill/unsuckjs.com) -- feel free to make a PR to be the change you want to see in the world.
I didn't post the site to HN, but I did create it. Adding the first commit is an interesting idea. Or some way to measure longevity (i.e. how long has the library been worked on). I'll try to figure out a good way to do that or if you put up a PR I will take a look at it: https://github.com/adamghill/unsuckjs.com.
I added `dom-proxy` because that looked like the closest to a complete solution from a quick skim. Let me know if you want to swap for another one, though.