by aleksandre_dev
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- The best part of the no-build, small-footprint approach is longevity: no dependency rot, nothing to maintain, and it'll still open and run in ten years. We've half-forgotten that "view source and hack it" is how a lot of us learned the web in the first place. Good to see tools that lean back into that.
by dspillett
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- > kiki is shareware.
Now that is a blast from the past.
Is much else distributed that way these days?
by hypersoar
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- This is a tangent to this post, but...
I happen to have a cat named Kiki who looks rather like the mascot for this project. Her health is failing, now. I just spent the night on my living room floor next to her. I'll, likely have to put her down, today.
I might use this project to make a memorial page for her.
https://ibb.co/7dRCnWrp
https://ibb.co/1GWwDKLY
- > kiki was built around the idea that the web took a wrong turn a couple of decades ago. HTML was supposed to be simple and straightforward
Hear, hear. We need more of this kind of courage to start over from first principles.
by smusamashah
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- Should have been written with bouba philosophy.
by unkeptbarista
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- Kiki's themes can be edited to suit one's personal tastes. The theme .css files are about 120 lines long.
by markandrewj
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- Hello, neat project. I am also from Edmonton area. I wonder if we have talked previously, in the the late 90s I ran a local BBS system with my colleague.
by binary0010
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- "It's built so that if something looks wrong, you can change it yourself without spending hours reading tutorials and watching coding videos"
Does anyone do this?
Every none coder I know just has llms build everything for them - can't imagine why they'd be looking up coding tutorials for a homepage.
- I wish we could get back to a “mom and pop” software market. Itch.io feels like it’s doing a lot of work for indie software that used to just be everywhere and easy to stumble onto.
- PHP was and still is the best.
by TazeTSchnitzel
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- That must be the first time in a very long time that I've seen something claim to support PHP 4.
- Reminds me of a time when my homepage (before lj blog) was using cmsimple. BTW, c still exists. Not sure if it is still "simple" tho.
https://www.cmsimple.org/en/
- Oh ! i cannot see myself doing php again, loved the language and have some good memories too but that me was 10 years ago
- that font color is impossible to read on the black background
I'm guessing this is made for a specific audience who dig this type of UI
by brettermeier
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- The design philosophy says you should be able to repair your own tools, but this is closed source proprietary software.
Cute page, but does not walk the walk.
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