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   Daphne Preston-Kendal (dpk@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Oct-2025 18:23:53 JST Daphne Preston-Kendal

   Now regretting using a static site generator for crumbles.blog, as on reflection I think I’d quite like to have comments, and all the comment options for static sites appear to involve multi-gigabyte JavaScript and/or GDPR-violating privacy policy/cookie notice extravaganzas

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Oct-2025 18:23:49 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Alaric Snell-Pym

     @dpk @kitten_tech i've been wondering if i should add support for running Wasm blobs on the backend (wazero doesn't have the component model so it'd have to be basically CGI... which is fine i guess?)

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     Daphne Preston-Kendal (dpk@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Oct-2025 18:23:50 JST Daphne Preston-Kendal

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     • Alaric Snell-Pym

     @kitten_tech Won’t run on Grebedoc or Codeberg Pages etc. though

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     Alaric Snell-Pym (kitten_tech@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 04-Oct-2025 18:23:51 JST Alaric Snell-Pym

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     @dpk make your SSG generate mainly static HTML with a bit of database-backed PHP for comments.

     I know PHP isn't a great language, but you can just embed it in HTML and enable server side processing and you're done 👍

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Oct-2025 18:24:55 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Alaric Snell-Pym

     @dpk @kitten_tech this really stretches the definition of "static pages" but i love shoving webassembly into places it 100% belongs so like why not; wazero makes it not really an issue security-wise

     the only real problem is "ok, how do we do writes?"

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Oct-2025 18:27:48 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Alaric Snell-Pym

     @dpk @kitten_tech there's already a filesystem-like thing so an obvious answer is "right there, with strict quotas" and idk, maybe? it doesn't feel right to me somehow.

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Oct-2025 18:28:31 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Alaric Snell-Pym

     @dpk @kitten_tech like for example this opens the door for fairly invasive types of tracking, code of unclear functioning running on the HTTP headers, and all that stuff. eh.

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Oct-2025 18:33:56 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @dpk basically "how do you moderate?" is the core problem of social networking and running a wasm blob server side sure does not solve it

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     Daphne Preston-Kendal (dpk@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Oct-2025 18:33:57 JST Daphne Preston-Kendal

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     • ✧✦Catherine✦✧

     @whitequark Yeah … tricky

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Oct-2025 20:11:09 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Alaric Snell-Pym

     @kitten_tech @dpk yeah that's exactly the thing I don't know what to do about

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     Alaric Snell-Pym (kitten_tech@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 04-Oct-2025 20:11:10 JST Alaric Snell-Pym

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     • ✧✦Catherine✦✧

     @whitequark @dpk you could make a server side processing engine with a very limited sandbox, that's *just useful enough*; deciding the exact boundary would be a fun challenge though...