Jan Miksovsky

Making Origami expressions easier to learn and use Over this summer I’ve shifted the Origami expression language to be a closer dialect of JavaScript expressions.

Over this summer I’ve shifted the Origami expression language to be a closer dialect of JavaScript expressions. jan.miksovsky.com/posts/2025/0...

Origami is now **JavaScript expressions plus paths**, with additional features that make it easier to define a site.

#blogging #programminglanguages

15.09.2025 16:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Site creation as content transformation Making a website would be so much easier if the web came with a good conceptual model for thinking about site construction. If you’re making a spreadsheet, the spreadsheet grid provides a vital concep...

I wrote an article for the inaugural issue of Good Internet magazine!

I describe a conceptual model for site construction: goodinternetmagazine.com/site-creatio...

If you’re thinking about starting or rewriting a #smallweb #indieweb #blogging site, this is for you.

29.05.2025 17:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Write a very concise static site generator with Origami expression Last year I created a sample blog called #pondlife to show how to create a basic blog in Web Origami.

In which I compare the same blog rewritten four ways jan.miksovsky.com/posts/2025/0...

1. Minimalist #JavaScript with zero dependencies
2. JavaScript using the async-tree library
3. #WebOrigami
4. #Astro, a popular #SSG framework

Origami comes out nicely: concise source, modest dependencies, fast

02.05.2025 15:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Chart comparing build times across three blog versions, zero-dependencies is fastest

23.04.2025 18:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Chart comparing node modules across three blog versions, zero-dependencies is smallest

23.04.2025 18:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Making a small #JavaScript blog static site generator even smaller using the general async-tree library #ssg #blogging Using the async-tree library substantially cuts down the source code for a minimalist static site generator (SSG) in JavaScript, at a very modest cost in dependencies.

Using the async-tree library substantially cuts down the source code for a minimalist static site generator in #JavaScript, at a very modest cost in dependencies. The result is still fast and flexible. #ssg #blogging #WebOrigami

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23.04.2025 18:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Configuring a complex tool can take more work that just coding the functionality from scratch. Earlier I created a simple blog in #Astro, a popular #SSG. That felt complicated, so I rewrote the entire #blogging project from scratch in pure JavaScript with 0 dependencies.

This went very well!

19.04.2025 23:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Chart comparing size of source code of 22K for zero dependency version and 11K for Astro version

Chart comparing 0 node_modules for zero dependency and 117Mb for Astro version

This minimalist static site generator pattern is only for #JavaScript developers who want something small, fast, flexible, and comprehensible jan.miksovsky.com/posts/2025/0...

19.04.2025 23:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Nice write-up!

19.04.2025 23:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Static site generators like Astro are actually pretty complex for the problems they solve https://jan.miksovsky.com/posts/2025/04-14-astro.html

14.04.2025 15:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Home https://jan.miksovsky.com/posts/2025/04-02-science-and-engineering-projects.html

02.04.2025 15:05 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Pull your documentation site content from your own GitHub wiki https://jan.miksovsky.com/posts/2025/03-25-pull-content-from-a-github-wiki.html

25.03.2025 15:35 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Writing a VS Code extension in ES modules in early 2025 https://jan.miksovsky.com/posts/2025/03-17-vs-code-extension.html

17.03.2025 17:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I wrote a screenplay for a programming language introduction, then wrote a program to turn that into a motion comic I’ve posted a short introduction to the Origami language in the form of a motion comic you can play in your browser: ## Lessons from the audio/video experiment T...

I wrote a screenplay for a programming language introduction, then wrote a program to turn that into a motion comic #WebOrigami #comics #webdev jan.miksovsky.com/posts/2025/0...

04.02.2025 17:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0