Jan Miksovsky

Working on an analogy for comparing forms of programmatic evaluation:

• Eager evaluation: Grab-and-Go sandwich. Made ahead of time, ready the instant you want it. Startup costs; work may be thrown away. • Lazy evaluation: Subway sandwich. Made when you ask for it. Less waste, but your progress is blocked while you wait. • Async evaluation: Doordash sandwich. Submit your order, wait for it to arrive. You can do something else while you wait, but the wait might be long.

#programming

During a week of off-trail #backpacking in Utah's Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument last week, a fellow hiker captured a great shot of me at sunset

My daughter saw it and said, "That looks like a social media profile banner".

Oh, good idea

It’s a treat to read such a well-written overview of #WebOrigami!

https://vale.rocks/posts/web-origami

I recall that @vale@fedi.vale.rocks completely got the idea the first time he saw it, and he’s done great things with it ever since.

I think Origami’s the best way to make your site, but don’t just take my word for it — read Vale’s post!

Fantastic trick for taking #photo of an **entire** group of people with no outside help or equipment

* Designate two photographers A and B, A goes first
* Rest of group poses, B stands on far left
* A starts a pano shot from the left but pauses in the middle while everyone holds still
* B walks out of shot, comes around to very carefully take phone from A
* A gets in the shot on far right
* B completes the pano shot

Voilá: complete group photo!

This week's #WebOrigami comic: Group pages

More about Tree.groupBy builtin function: https://weborigami.org/builtins/tree/groupby
HTML comic: https://weborigami.org/comics/group-pages.html

#static #staticsite #smallweb

RE: @jimniels@mastodon.social

I'm considering doing the same thing: dropping CI builds in favor of much, much simpler local builds.

It was all too easy to let ourselves believe we needed to replicate giant software factories just to create our own personal sites. Much of that factory infrastructure is unnecessary for artisanal sites.

https://jan.miksovsky.com/posts/2024/02-09-factories-and-artisans.html

This week's #WebOrigami comic: Cache slow resources

More about Origami's Tree.cache builtin: https://weborigami.org/builtins/tree/cache
HTML comic: https://weborigami.org/comics/cache-slow-resources.html

#programming #staticsite

This week's #WebOrigami comic: Rewriting nested function calls

More about Origami pipe operator: https://weborigami.org/language/expressions#pipe-operator
HTML comic: https://weborigami.org/comics/rewriting-nested-function-calls.html

#staticsite #programming

FWIW there's a (stale?) JS proposal for a pipe operator: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator

Last week a parent of a young child was intrigued by the #journal I keep for my family. I wrote up my suggestions to him as a blog post: https://jan.miksovsky.com/posts/2026/05-11-journaling

#Journaling as a practice has many benefits. It doesn’t matter how you start, only that you start.

#smallweb #blogging

I've been enjoying this series of science videos from NIMS, the Japanese National Institute for Materials Science

1. The series has the wonderful title "A message to future scientists" — they're for kids 😃
2. They feature experiments that are simple enough you'd think they'd be ubiquitous but, to me at least, many are new (how come I'd never seen a demo of a Halbach array before?!?)

Just tried the bottle experiment and was delighted it worked

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahmr91iWE50

This week's #WebOrigami comic: Serve anything

More about Origami's serve command: https://weborigami.org/builtins/dev/serve
HTML comic: https://weborigami.org/comics/serve-anything.html

#static #staticsite #smallweb

This week's #WebOrigami comic: Pagination

More about Origami Tree.paginate builtin function: https://weborigami.org/builtins/tree/paginate.html
HTML comic: https://weborigami.org/comics/pagination.html

#staticsite #blogging

RE: @jimniels@mastodon.social

It’s too bad the incentives for tech providers — and the modern world more broadly — are arranged such that they carefully eradicate all humility

@dtm@mastodon.cc https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing

This week's #WebOrigami comic: Track changes in your site

More about Origami's Dev.changes builtin: https://weborigami.org/builtins/dev/changes
HTML comic: https://weborigami.org/comics/track-changes-in-your-site.html

This Origami tool works with any #staticsite generator!

#ssg #smallweb #blogging