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I wish there were more simple site generators out there that you could install on your server with an installer or by simply unzipping it to a folder instead of having to go through the whole Github and/or Netlify maze. Such a pain in the butt. It's one of the things I miss about the old web.

First rough prerelease of @conjured_ink 's eshop software is up on codeberg: codeberg.org/conjured/silverfi

It's so tiny. That's the whole binary. There's no external dependencies. There's only a single binary in it, and it has both the database and the job queue software embedded right in it.

For folks familiar with hosting mastodon: Imagine if that was literally your hosting experience, and the entire thing barely used 80mb to serve thousands of requests per second on a single-core vm. No need to set up and manage mysql, or sidekiq. You just run the executable.

Silverfish (what we're calling this tiny thing) is still in very early stages and only really has a CMS with custom theming support so far, but new features are rapidly being added, and the guts of the thing are really featureful, with light/dark theme support, i18n, and a literal 1kb JS bundle where the entire admin interface works with JS completely disabled and is still super snappy.

I'm very excited

Codeberg.orgRelease v0.0.1 - conjured/silverfishAuto-generated by https://codeberg.org/conjured/silverfish/actions/runs/363 ## Changelog This is an initial release, largely for the sake of testing our releases. It contains the basics of a stall, including the ability to create custom pages. ## Checksums * sha-256 57319fe64e4fb41045...

Guess who misremembered having 25 seconds per slide and instead has 15 seconds per slide on Monday?

FML! :)

Goodness, I hate formalistic presentation styles like Ignite. But don’t worry, I’m breaking the form three times in the talk – including starting with a minute of silence for Gaza (that’s four black slides and 1/5th of the 5-minute talk), a transition (ok, it’s a 15-second transition, but still), and a live demo (yep) – and using that to demonstrate the case that we do not have to accept the rigid confines of the status quo, that resistance and sabotage are always options, and that the way things are is just raw materials for the way things can be. That said, constraints are also good so the reduced slide duration will only make my talk more impactful if I edit it down right, it just means more work… and more than one thing can be true at the same time. ;)

If you’re in Dublin/Ireland and want to drop by, there are no tickets and it’s first-come first-served:

defuse.ixd.ie

defuse.ixd.ieDefuse - Design for Use | Monday, 10th November 2025lgdescription

The first #WeekNotes is out on #BurgeonLab

➡️ burgeonlab.com/weeknotes/2025/

My first foray into the world of #weeknote writing... Not sure if anyone will read them or if they're interesting enough; but it's nice to try new routines and be out of your comfort zone, right?

I'm definitely going to iterate through different structure/formats for writing these, as I try to read more from other #weeklynote veterans.

Recs or feedback are welcome!