Re: [dev] Recent vain attempts at suckless Web applications

> ...and this is precisely the garden path that people followed to create modern massive web frameworks.

indeed. Merb, when it began, was a 180 line of code masterpiece. somehow, it bloated up to Rails proportions and eventually merged with it.

Camping is decent, but i found it uneditable (without breaking), too much metaprogramming insanity

i wrote a small web daemon, and it is an email client, a media player,a directory browser on crack and a lot of other stuff. 2500 lines now, but it replaced every other app i ever used besides irssi and dwm

pushed to these repos

git://repo.or.cz/element.git http://repo.or.cz/w/element.git
git://gitorious.org/element/element.git http://gitorious.org/element
git://rubyforge.org/element.git http://element.rubyforge.org/

screenshots http://s574.photobucket.com/albums/ss187/ix9/hyper/

doc http://blog.whats-your.name/public/carmen.html

to avoid bloat, existing paradigms are used wherever possible. filesystem for database, existing file formats and regex-based or library-based parser, to triple-streams of RDF converted to a per-request Graph model (using JSON/hash datastructure rather than inventin a new RDF::Graph class)

minimalist clientside filtering tools exist, eg a 46 line replacement for the ~600K of code Simile Exhibit project: http://blog.whats-your.name/public/logex.png

theres no weird auth crap, permissions handled via *nix - i run a webserver bound to 127.0.0.1 to read my own mail in ~/, and su to another dummy user to bind to 0.0.0.0:80 to serve up stuff publically.
Received on Sun Jan 23 2011 - 02:35:36 CET