Staticman Lab New Logos
Posted on November 21, 2018
(Last modified on April 24, 2019)
| 2 minutes
| Vincent Tam
|
0 comment
StaticmanLab's new logo GitLab logo recreated from Wikimedia's logo by Darby under CC-BY-SA 4.0 and Staticman logo on GitHub by Erlen Masson under MIT.
The old icon for Staticman Lab was made by GIMP from Staticman’s icon in PNG in the GitHub repo. Recently, I’ve found the SVG version of this icon. To serve customers better, I’ve recreated the logo from this SVG file so that the edges in the logo become sharper.
[Read More]
Merge GitHub Pull Requests
Posted on November 18, 2018
(Last modified on May 11, 2019)
| 2 minutes
| Vincent Tam
|
0 comment
Aim To merge a pull request.
How? Let’s take Staticman PR 231 as an example. I would like to test it before commiting this merget to Heroku.
$ cd ~/staticman $ git branch -a * deploy dev master ... $ git remote -v eduardoboucas https://github.com/eduardoboucas/staticman.git (fetch) eduardoboucas https://github.com/eduardoboucas/staticman.git (push) heroku https://git.heroku.com/staticman3.git (fetch) heroku https://git.heroku.com/staticman3.git (push) ... $ git pull eduardoboucas pull/231/head:deploy remote: Enumerating objects: 10, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (10/10), done.
[Read More]
Nested Comments in Beautiful Hugo
Posted on November 17, 2018
(Last modified on December 19, 2018)
| 8 minutes
| Vincent Tam
|
1 comment
Quick links A minimal demo site on GitLab (Source) Beautiful Hugo pull request 222 Pre-release notes for this pull request Motivation For the mathematical ones, please see my previous post.
As a math student, it’s inefficient to reinvent the wheel like engineering students. Thanks to three existing examples, I had convinced myself that I could bring this to the theme Beautiful Hugo.
Zongren’s Hexo theme (worked best)
Made Mistakes Jekyll theme
[Read More]
Interactive Blog on Static Web Host
Posted on November 17, 2018
(Last modified on February 17, 2021)
| 5 minutes
| Vincent Tam
|
1 comment
Vision gain autonomy: freedom is the basis of moral actions. No freedom, no morality. transcend ourselves: change/improve our lives through free thoughts Goal Convert our free thoughts into free code.
Free code allows users around the world to run and/or improve them. This would bring real enhancement to our tools.
For example, beautiful math writing used to be a complicated process. A decade ago, this required the installation of a typesetting engine called $\LaTeX$.
[Read More]
Minimal Jekyll Site with Static Comments
Setup Staticman v3 and Jekyll on GitHub Pages
Posted on September 30, 2018
(Last modified on April 13, 2023)
| 2 minutes
| Vincent Tam
|
1 comment
Introduction This is the GitHub Pages version to my GitLab Pages with Staticman tutorial.
I didn’t plan to test whether Staticman v3 work on GitHub since it’s proprietary. However, from Staticman issues #222 and #227, we know that the official server doesn’t respond to
GET /v2/connnect/<USERNAME>/<REPONAME> To help others, I self-advertised my own Staticman API instance and the migration to GitLab pages. Unfortunately, nobody had managed to create a GitHub repo running on my API instance.
[Read More]
Staticman API Hosting 2018
Step-by-step guide for free-hosting on Heroku
Posted on September 17, 2018
(Last modified on June 5, 2022)
| 6 minutes
| Vincent Tam
|
16 comments
Update: I suggest reading a newer tutorial for setting up your custom API server that works with GitHub Apps. The package maintainers suggest hosting your own API server.
Goal To host an instance of Staticman v3 server on Heroku.
This post involves server-side setup of the commenting system. If you simply want to have a taste of this system on GitLab, you may try my demo GitLab Page.
I try to address some concerns about this API service in the introduction of this series to keep this page focused on the technical aspects of my customizations against staticman/dev branch.
[Read More]
Config GitLab Repo for Staticman
Posted on September 16, 2018
(Last modified on June 5, 2022)
| 7 minutes
| Vincent Tam
|
15 comments
Update: I suggest reading a newer tutorial.
To keep focused on the technical setup, please refer to the introduction of this series for the reasons of choosing Staticman and GitLab.
Goal To set up unauthenticated commenting system on GitLab pages.
Demo GitLab Page with Staticman v3 Built on 14/09/2018
This post aims at providing a walkthrough to the GitLab repo setup. If you want to host your own Staticman API instance, you may refer to the next post in this series.
[Read More]
Welcome to static comments
Staticman Powered GitLab Pages
Posted on September 16, 2018
(Last modified on November 10, 2018)
| 4 minutes
| Vincent Tam
|
6 comments
I put some “why” questions here so as to keep focus on the technical setup of the GitLab repo and the optional Staticman API server.
Why static blogs instead of dynamic ones? quicker loading time better reliability (can handle more request) no database needed greater control on content, styles and layout Why static comments? allow feedback from visitors site owner owns the comment locally (unlike WordPress, Facebook, Disqus, etc) no remote database needed, so no need to worry server errors from third-party commenting services.
[Read More]