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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 20:49:25 JST Aral Balkan

   Coming soon: Generic script blocks in markdown pages in Kitten¹

   The line between what you can do from a Markdown page vs what you can do from a JavaScript page in Kitten continues to blur… soon, you’ll be able to add a generic script block to the front matter of your Markdown pages for quick little things.

   e.g., In the screenshots you see all the code necessary to create the page with the reactions component which actually persists the results to your data. That is all the code in your app. Nothing else. No scaffolding or anything else. Seriously :)

   ¹ https://kitten.small-web.org

   #Kitten #SmallWeb #markdown #components #JavaScript #comingSoon #web #dev

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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 02:59:36 JST Aral Balkan

   While working on porting the Small Technology Foundation web site¹ to Kitten², I took the opportunity to pull out base Model and Collection classes that I’ll likely end up including in Kitten proper:

   • Model: https://codeberg.org/small-tech/site/src/branch/kitten/app_modules/database/Model.js
   • Collection: https://codeberg.org/small-tech/site/src/branch/kitten/app_modules/database/Collection.js

   To see them in use, here’s the base Posts class (with RSS generation) that extends Collection:
   https://codeberg.org/small-tech/site/src/branch/kitten/app_modules/database/Posts.js

   And here’s the concrete EventPosts collection class that extends Posts:
   https://codeberg.org/small-tech/site/src/branch/kitten/app_modules/database/EventPosts.js

   And the EventPost (showing an implementation of a calculated property):
   https://codeberg.org/small-tech/site/src/branch/kitten/app_modules/database/EventPost.js

   So all this is possible (persisting and reading back typed model collections, etc.) thanks to JSDB¹ (JavaScript database), a zero-dependency, transparent, in-memory, streaming write-on-update JavaScript database I wrote for the Small Web that persists to a JavaScript transaction log and is included as as first-class citizen in Kitten.

   https://codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb

   PS. For a much gentler introduction to persistence in Kitten, see the Kitten Persistence tutorial:
   https://kitten.small-web.org/tutorials/persistence/

   Enjoy! :kitten:💕

   ¹ https://small-tech.org
   ² https://kitten.small-web.org

   #Kitten #SmallWeb #SmallTech #JavaScript #database #JSDB #typeSafety #JSDoc #closureCompiler #TypeScript #workInProgress

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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 20:35:07 JST Aral Balkan

   😺 Fun Kitten¹ fact

   Did you know that Kitten has a built-in HTML validator that checks your markup for validity and accessibility issues, etc.?

   You’re informed of validation errors in not just terminal but also in your browser’s web developer panel. And, if you select the “Show validation issues on page” link from a validation error in the web developer panel, Kitten will show the validation errors in place on your page.

   This helps me catch issues with my markup all the time and I hope it helps you too.

   Enjoy!

   :kitten:💕

   ¹ https://kitten.small-web.org

   #Kitten #SmallWeb #HTML #HTMLValidator #validation #web #dev #SmallTech #NodeJS #JavaScript #CSS

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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 03:22:24 JST Aral Balkan

   New Kitten¹ update

   Experimental:

   • Adds `data` property to Kitten components

   • Adds swap target to `page.send` so you can have an element added before, after, as first child of and as last child of another (this is syntactic sugar over htmx and works around some of the complexities with out-of-band swaps in htmx, especially when streaming table rows to tables).

   Also, check out the latest live page and page events state view in Kitten’s Settings (every Kitten app has this settings view).

   https://vimeo.com/1050348456

   ¹ https://kitten.small-web.org

   #Kitten #SmallWeb #OOP #eventModel #StreamingHTML #liveComponents #WebSocket #RPC #SmallTech #web #dev #framework #server #platform

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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 20:42:53 JST Aral Balkan

   I’m sorry folks but I’m going to remove Windows support from Kitten¹.

   It’s been a long time coming (read what’s in the Windows tab of the current installation section – https://kitten.small-web.org/#get-started – if you want a longer rant) and I simply refuse to even test under that horribly hostile operating system. I don’t want anything to do with it and nor will I pay Microsoft a single Euro cent for the pleasure of having its AI and surveillance shoved down my throat so I can support that shitty platform with my work.

   Windows has absolutely nothing going for it. Want a proper proprietary OS that isn’t shit? Use macOS. Want a proper free and open OS? Use some modern flavour of Linux. There’s no reason to use a proprietary OS that exploits you while having all the usability of a Linux desktop from ten years ago.

   (The only valid use case I can see for Windows is if you’re forced to use it by your employer. And that’s why I’ve supported it so far – and then only under WSL, which has its own issues, making the Windows experience sub-par to the macOS and Linux experience anyway.)

   I’m only one dev and this move will simplify the codebase further (always a good thing) and free up cycles that can be used to better test/support Kitten on a wider range of Linux distributions.

   :kitten:💕

   ¹ https://kitten.small-web.org

   #Kitten #SmallWeb #SmallTech #Microsoft #Windows #BigTech #surveillanceCapitalism

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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 28-Nov-2024 01:43:04 JST Aral Balkan

   :kitten: New Kitten release

   • Improves macOS post-install instructions

   • Node runtime upgraded to 22.11.0

   • New well-known /💕/ok route for testing new deployments (return 200 success, guaranteed to work even if your app doesn’t)

   • Interpolated numbers fix in kitten.html parser.

   • Now with many more tests :)

   https://kitten.small-web.org

   #Kitten #SmallWeb #SmallTech #web #dev