Harpjs

A year ago, I migrated my blog from wordpress to static assets created with harpjs. It was fun and I learned a lot by using technology like LESS and jade which I had not gotten into before.

I ran the blog using harp as application server using pm2 for service and cluster management at first, so publishing was as easy as writing on my laptop, checking into source control and updating the “working copy” on the server. I had some problems with that as my server got unresponsive for other services I run there and it was rather obvious that node (or better stated pm2) ate a lot of cpu. After trying to work around that issue by reducing other services cpu- and memory-usage (I switched my web server from apache to lighttpd and eventually nginx in those attempts) I decided to compile my blog with harp and server static assets only.

When the first devices running Mozilla mobile operating system were announced, I must admit I was a bit disappointed - low end devices, non-emotional hardware design, software still running in alpha status. On the bright side, this also meant it would be inexpensive to try out the new system on real hardware!

In Germany, Congstar announced the availability of the Alcatel Onetouch Fire for the end of October 2013, so I ordered one of those - in green, to match my Linux desktop theme. Two days ago, it was delivered to me, and I was anxious to put a SIM in and give it a shot as my daily driver for some time. Today, I stopped using it again and went back to my Nokia Lumia 820.

Finally I could spend some time to play around with FirefoxOS - I have ordered an Alcatel One Touch Fire (colored green, of course) and am awaiting its delivery.

I have put up a simple and small app project, creating a cartoon reader for my favorite strip - “Dilbert” by Scott Adams. It has little features. I wanted to start playing around with HTML5-apps and also tried to estabish a development environment using harpjs. When thinking about starting this, I wanted to use enyojs which is targeting web-applications built for cross-plattform deployment. After setting up the bootplate, I found myself thinking the app I wanted to create was a little too small to bring in a full-fledged javascript framework, so I started over using just plain javascript.

After having my blog running with harpjs for about a week and having pushed the basic structure to github for everybody to use as they wish (if they wish to…), I found it would be great to organize my tags in a tag cloud rather than showing them in an unhandy list - as the amount of tags used grows, this list view is not useful at all to anybody (unless you are searching the page with the browsers built-in search functionality). I still have the list style active on my archived blog in German if you like to see an example.

Ich habe nach langer Zeit an meinem Blog etwas geändert.

neue Optik

Das Offensichtliche: Ich habe die Optik stark zusammengedampft. Vielleicht hat mich der aktuelle Microsoft-Look inspiriert, vielleicht hatte ich nach mittlerweile 8 Jahren auch genug von Farbverläufen, Schatten und elend langen Menüs in der Sidebar.

Viele Dinge, die vorher da waren, habe ich mir gespart. Ich denke, dass heute niemand mehr lesen will, ob eine ziemlich alte Version einer Linux-Distribution auf einem hoffnungslos veralteten Laptop läuft. Auch vor irgendwelchen Links zu anderen Seiten kann ich Euch nun schützen. Ihr wisst, dass ich auf Archlinux und openSUSE stehe (Auch wenn ich seit Oktober 2012 wieder Windows auf meinem privaten Laptop nutze). Ihr habt auch mit gekriegt, dass ich webOS verehre und HP auf ewig für das hassen werde, was sie diesem System angetan haben. Kurzum - ich glaube, Ihr findet die entsprechenden Seiten selber, wenn Ihr wollt.