MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia

It’s always useful for me at the end of the year to reflect back on the past year’s work. I think this has been a great year for the Web Origami project and the Origami language. Goals for 2024 At the start of the year I set some specific goals for the project, all in service of building awareness of the project. These were all in addition to the...

I’ve posted a new Origami intro screencast that covers some of the basics of the Origami language: This screencast doesn’t give a complete introduction yet, but I think the production process I’m using is itself interesting and worth sharing. Videos are a vital form of documentation but: Videos take forever to produce — for me, easily an hour or...

I’d love to find a few new people to try out the Origami programming language for creating websites — maybe you? Maybe you have any of these goals: Are thinking of making a site for a passion project but aren’t sure how Have an existing site you want to move off a platform (WordPress, say) to something you control Want to try rewriting a site to...

I am deeply touched by the warm response to my recent MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia post. It got much more circulation on Mastodon that I usually get, and overnight someone posted it to Hacker News — where it shot to the #1 story. I discovered this after waking up and finding my inbox full of LinkedIn requests. The post stayed...

I was able retire an old #Heroku site by copying the content to a completely #static #website. Instead of resurrecting the source project and rewriting it, I used the #WebOrigami crawl command to retrieve the static files. The @crawl picked up all but a few exotically-referenced resources that I copied over by hand. I dropped it all on Netlify....