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   Simon Repp (freebliss@post.lurk.org)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 02:22:48 JST Simon Repp

   Fashionably late, here's my second¹ big announcement for 2025:

   Did you see the «Hyper 8 Video System» (https://simonrepp.com/hyper8), a static site generator for *video* that I beta-released last May?

   Last summer I applied for a https://netidee.at grant - an open source funding programme by the austrian Internet Foundation - to ensure further #hyper8 development, and to my great delight, the application was accepted!

   Hence, all throughout 2025 I'll be able to work part-time on turning Hyper 8 from a pretty solid beta into a full-featured production tool!

   The plan in a nutshell: Initially I'll work on critical features like subtitle support, RSS/Podcast integration, video embedding and built-in FTP deployment, midway I'll put additional focus on layout, accessibility and design, and in the grand finale Hyper 8 will be published as a proper desktop application – emphasis though that *right now* you can already use the Hyper 8 graphical user interface! The desktop application is just the missing glue to make this easier to access for everyone.

   I'll provide regular updates here on the fediverse, via newsletter (https://simonrepp.com/newsletter/) and I'll occasionally blog about this in german at https://www.netidee.at/hyper-8-video-system too.

   A thousand thanks to netidee for making this possible! <3

   ¹ The first was: https://post.lurk.org/@freebliss/113804889509469187

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     Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 02:39:01 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

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     @freebliss Very interesting! Will give it a spin! One thing I didn't immediately see in the docs and on the site is how the deployment step works. I guess it creates the complete site in the build directory that I can then just upload to my web server? Or do I need to config domain name, path etc?

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     Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 02:51:07 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

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     @freebliss I'll be happy if it stops after building the output directory (which will be git repo, which can push, which then kicks of CI/CD with Forgejo actions to deploy to my web server ;) Next step: run hyper8 --build-only as a container so I can just commit the "source" directory the way I do with my Jekyll sites :)

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     Simon Repp (freebliss@post.lurk.org)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 02:51:10 JST Simon Repp

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     • Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

     @jwildeboer Awesome, and thanks for sharing! It's exactly as you describe - build directory contains the complete website and can be uploaded by any means. The built-in deployment works via rsync (and it generally works) but wrapping rsync through GUIs is always a bit of an adventure haha, so that area will eventually need some serious technical redesign of some sort. :)

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     Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 03:05:06 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

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     @freebliss Cool! I will try it to see some more details (like does it use relative links etc). No need to explain it all to me here and now, testing and trying is always my preferred approach. If I find something that needs more explanation, I'll open an issue over at codeberg :) Again, thanks for your hard work on this very interesting project!

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     Simon Repp (freebliss@post.lurk.org)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 03:05:08 JST Simon Repp

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     • Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

     @jwildeboer That it does ("--build - Directly builds the site without starting the editor"), deployment needs a separate, explicit flag. :)