Faster publishing in Micro.blog manton.org
@manton Jekyll’s rebuild times have always been an issue, unfortunately. Out of interest, how have you resolved this? Do you now run two separate builds, one limited to publishing the latest post and feed, and another to rebuild the entire site? Might attempt the same for my own Jekyll site; anything you can share that might help me do this?
@paulrobertlloyd I'd like to share the details in a blog post and the upcoming book. Essentially yes, I extracted some code from Jekyll and run it in a separate script to render just a few pages. I also upload photos and audio files directly when they come in.
@manton On my old Movable Type blog I used monthly archives in place of pagination and it meant never having to rebuild most of the site. I typed that up recently, fwiw. david.ely.fm/2018/07/1...
@davextreme I like your thinking on this. Agreed about the arrows and that an archive page would be more useful. (I was also a fan of Movable Type and used it for years!)
@manton Yeah like "page 49" or whatever of a blog is just probably never visited and wasting precious processor cycles whenever it's rebuild.
@davextreme Great, thought-provoking post; thanks for writing/sharing it. I wrote a long reflection/response on my blog.
tl;dr I don’t agree with you about the nav arrow directions, but I agree wth you on using explicit labels for them, and I am absolutely sold on getting rid of the numerical pages. Wondering if anyone knows of any WordPress code for not building the numerical pages?
@smokey Yeah the left vs right argument isn’t one I’d defend to the death. It’s probably more important that a given site do it consistently (across all Tumblr pages or what have you).
@manton Wow! I had no idea that hosted blogs Micro.blog were built using Jekyll. Great job!
What about conversations? For instance, I have my own self-hosted microblog, which I federated over Micro.blog, but I am still able to reply to others, send faves, etc.
P.S. Excuse my ignorance at the moment. I am still quite new to the whole IndieWeb thing.