Exposé
Dev tools
static site generator
SHOW HN2015
548points
73comments
#17of 2,565 in 2015
Top 1%of 2015 by points
How HN took it
LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
26 positive, 20 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 4 critical, out of 52 comments about the project. Thread score +0.45.
Idea: 9 for, 1 againstExecution: 3 for, 1 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Beautiful design and photography, easy way to present photos and video
From 3 comments
Beautiful work and amazing photography! Interested in making things at Flickr? Drop me a line at eric at flickr.com :)
superic on HNThis is really nice! Getting photos and especially video online in an easy way but still have it be beautiful has been really tricky. I'll definitely use this.
lemming on HNBeautiful work! I'm in love with your site. I'm definitely going to be using the software. Thank you Jack!
cmstoken on HN
Simple shell script with few dependencies
From 2 comments
Thank you very much! I appreciate the use of simple bash shell script instead of a scripting language with lots of runtime dependencies.
raimue on HNThis is very cool. Love that its just a shell script. In a similar vein, I have a Jekyll plugin that reads folders of images and can create galleries:…
callmeed on HN
Objections
Pages are heavy and slow on slow connections and mobile
From 2 comments
Looks great, but man... this seems like websites for the top 10% of the world with great internet speed. This sites are really not good with slow(er) internet. Also look at…
therealmarv on HNyes, don't get me wrong. It looks beautiful on desktop and I wished everybody could have great internet speed. But I know from professional experiences that e.g. people from…
therealmarv on HN
Output breaks on window resize and small text on mobile
From 2 comments
This looks amazing. Thank you for generalizing this and open sourcing it. For anyone looking to use the polygon word wrap feature as in the demo on the Github page with the…
eric-hu on HNyes, don't get me wrong. It looks beautiful on desktop and I wished everybody could have great internet speed. But I know from professional experiences that e.g. people from…
therealmarv on HN
Requires JavaScript for a static site
From 1 comment
Given that it's a static site, why the JS requirement? Most browsers already intelligently handle keeping the "right" number of assets in memory, do you believe your JavaScript…
falcolas on HN
Requests
Support for Google Photos, S3, Dropbox
From 3 comments
Looks beautiful. Support for google photos would make this more versatile.
Omnipresent on HNif this would exist for S3.. i would be soooo happy. tried to find similar (even thumbnails would be ok) .. nothing out there.
hkjtme on HNLovely. Would be swell if you could plug it straight into a Dropbox folder.
3stripe on HN
Redraw on window resize
From 2 comments
I should probably add a redraw on window resize. Right now it does that polygon stuff once on page load. So if you resize the window and reload the page it should fit everything…
Jack000 on HNI'd actually agree that most static sites shouldn't require js. For image galleries though it really needs the lazy loading to save bandwidth imo. Also it's "sort of" responsive,…
Jack000 on HN
GUI for editing and generating YAML
From 1 comment
i like the results. now, it would be very useful to have a friendly GUI to edit those things and generate the YML files for you.
lucaspottersky on HN
Questions
Why the HTML output is empty with many photos (argument list too long in sed)
From 2 comments
Got a question: for fun I did this over about 400 to 500 photos. I partially did it also to stress test it. But the HTML file is empty. Did I do something wrong? The rest of the…
mettamage on HNI do have reasons to believe this is the error. Currently I tested it with 10 photo's (corrupted image removed), 200, 100, 150 and now I'm doing 190 (note: numbers are a ball…
mettamage on HN
Is it open source and what license
From 1 comment
This is really great! Is it open source? I couldn't see a license or anything in the readme so wasn't sure.
mlapeter on HN
Alternatives named
ThumbsUp static generator
From 1 comment
Added it to staticgen.com now - love these small non-general purpose static gens :) Reminds me of ThumnsUp: https://github.com/rprieto/thumbsup
bobfunk on HN
django-coconuts
From 1 comment
This looks amazing. I was using a tool one of my friends made, with a similar idea, just put images and videos in directories and have a script automatically generate a nice…
cataflam on HN
jekyll-image-set
From 1 comment
This is very cool. Love that its just a shell script. In a similar vein, I have a Jekyll plugin that reads folders of images and can create galleries:…
callmeed on HN
Static hosting on S3 instead of static generators
From 2 comments
You can use S3 to make hosting your site super simple, and super cheap. I don't understand why people use a database for content that (for the most part) doesn't need one.
davidlumley on HNAgree 100%. Requiring an active server and database seems like overkill for a site that's read-only (or very nearly so) You could easily replace his rsync with an s3cmd sync to…
Turing_Machine on HN