I hadn’t come across this module before, it looks like this could be quite powerful.

Tests an OpenAPI based on invariants.

A webserver with all the bells and whistles to access and share files. Of interest it has a WebDav implementation.

Q: Can Bear Blog be self-hosted?

A: Bear Blog has been built as a platform and not as an individual blog generator. It is more like Substack than Hugo. Due to this it isn’t possible to individually self-host a Bear Blog.

But that wasn’t the question, which was: can other instances of the platform be spun up?

I don’t know for sure but it does seem that way. It’s MIT licensed & it seems to be all there, caddy files and all. IDK.

So far, stumbling over a blog on Bear has been a heck of a lot less painful than stumbling over one on say, Medium. And I am grateful that there are alternatives to asking people to self host generated static files.

In the long run all “up-and-coming” sites usually are super nice with RSS & low-weight & interoperability & free icecream but what matters is whether that lasts. That said, Medium sucked from day one and this seems awesome several years in, so 🤷🏻‍♀️

Patchwork might be something to keep in mind as an opportunity to install later on if I get overwhelmed by patches. Right now it’d be a complete YAGNI. Also it’s Django.

I like the idea: it doesn’t intrude with the mailing list workflow at all, it’s just an extra “view” of the patches.

PyThumbnail is a Python script that uses Gecko (Firefox’s rendering engine) to generate a thumbnail of a web page. It is headless, meaning you can call it from the command-line or from another program and it doesn’t require a running X server.