Looking for CMS advice

Hey Web devs!

Do you have any suggestions, tips, opinions, dos, don’ts about headless CMSes?

I have a growing list of small/mid non-profits and collectives asking for my help to (re)make their website. I totally want to help, but I don’t have much time, especially considering that they generally have little or no funding—I would most definitely point them to @VillageOneCoop, otherwise.

Therefore, I want a super simple and replicable solution where I can copy-paste most of the code, while providing them with a stable, fast, and modern solution. I had a look at the Headless CMS section in the Jamstack website, but I need opinions from people who actually used some of that software already.

Needs

• I want to code and configure everything using @eleventy
• Admin interface (#WebApp) for the client to add pages and write posts
• Static website in the front-end
• Simple and reliable CI/CD
• No/minimal maintenance after the first setup
• Self-hostable (I was taking this for granted so much that I forgot to write it)
• #OpenSource

Nice to have

• Possibly using #Deno, not #NodeJS
• Allowing the client to customize a bit their website through the admin interface, with a GUI
• CMS app packaged on @yunohost
• No CMS vendor lock-in
• I’d love to write as little JavaScript as possible
• #FreeSoftware

Absolutely not

• Front-end #JavaScript frameworks

Please, boost this and ask around! Links to videos, tutorials, and resources are welcome.

People whose perspective I would really value: @zachleat @harryfk @deno_land @jaredwhite @vanillaweb @stefan @mxbck @WeirdWriter @deadsuperhero (Sorry if I am spamming you!)

This goes to all application developers whose app shows a loading screen with "Fetching account info..." or "Getting things ready..." or similar:

What exactly is your app doing? Serious question.

I am once again faced with the bleak irony of people who like to code in the terminal with Vim or Nano, but also install onto their computer some 5 or 10 apps via FlatPak or Docker, including VSCode, each installed with their own entire copies of Node.js and Electron.js (differing only in their minor revision number), while also complaining about Emacs being “bloated” because it ships with a miniature web browser and fully-featured e-mail client.

What's New in #ArcGIS Experience Builder (Feb 2025) https://tinyurl.com/3de4jjfs

#webapp #dataviz #GIS #esri #mapping #maps #apps #GISchat #geospatial #ArcGISApps #mapstodon @esri @esrifederalgovt @esrislgov @arcgisapps @esritraining @urisa

It took me less than 10 minutes configuring everything, and the newly released Spotifyd, combined with spotify-qt, solved my headaches using #Spotify.

I don’t have to deal with the awful, buggy, laggy, and icky Spotify default #webapp anymore

A feature request I'd like to file if I can find the submit spot for #mastodon –

…while we can click "Hide" on an image tht someone posts, there doesn't seem to be a way to hide the images in a news link, or website link.

What are those called now? They used to be called TwitterCards in the old place I think.

It's unpleasant to have to see pics of you-know-who or his cronies in your feed even though I *do* want to keep seeing the news toots.

#featureRequest #WebApp @Gargron

Telescope – an open-source web-based log viewer for logs stored in ClickHouse — https://github.com/iamtelescope/telescope
#HackerNews #Telescope #ClickHouse #OpenSource #LogViewer #WebApp

#GUI s that need to be better: the dialogues created for #NuOrder by #Lightspeed. This is a #webapp for apparel wholesale. Overall it is pretty good. But its dialogs could be better. How? By responding to common keyboard key presses, like esc and enter. Especially if your dialog has a cancel button, the Esc key should cancel it. And if your dialiog has an OK button, the Enter key should activate it. #UX #Accessibility

Want to create a clean micro-blog out of your Mastodon posts on one topic?

Here is an example: https://florianmarquardtmastodon.eu.pythonanywhere.com/?account=%40FMarquardtGroup%40fediscience.org&hashtag=AutomatedScientificDiscovery&message=Florian%27s%20Blog:%20Automated%20Scientific%20Discovery

Here is the code: https://github.com/FlorianMarquardt/MastodonOriginalPostsViewer

Please share if you think this is useful !

An app I made:

https://thoughtstream.me

Weekend plan: Meton, a mechanical moon phase calculator.

https://www.thomasweibel.ch/?post=metons-mond

[x] design
[x] model
[x] 3d print
[x] setup
[ ] build
[ ] calculate

#moon, #newmoon, #fullmoon, #lunisolar, #calculator, #antiquity, #archaeology, #greece, #babylon, #mathematics, #astrophysics, #mechanics, #simulation, #webdev, #webapp, #opendata, #openglam, #glamhack, #3dprint, #physicalcomputing, @paulfoerster

Whooop!!

Terminal is working again in non-compatible browsers.

Try it for yourself: https://zeyus.com/terminal

Video demos talking to my Arduino with Edge. (no data is stored, I don't have tracking/analytics, and it's all run in your own browser)

Source: https://github.com/zeyus/zeyus.github.io/blob/main/src/components/Terminal.svelte

Mein Mondphasenrechner Meton hatte nach Neujahr mit einem Jahreswechsel-Bug zu kämpfen. Nun denn: Als Kammerjäger bin ich durchaus zu gebrauchen. Und Meton rechnet wieder, wie er rechnen soll. Ein erfülltes, glückliches Mondjahr Euch allen!

https://www.thomasweibel.ch/meton/

#silentsunday, #moon, #newmoon, #fullmoon, #lunisolar, #calculator, #antiquity, #archaeology, #greece, #babylon, #mathematics, #astrophysics, #mechanics, #simulation, #webdev, #webapp, #opendata, #openglam, #glamhack

My virtual #moonphase calculator Meton @ https://www.thomasweibel.ch/meton/ is to become real, as a physical acrylic glass model, based on ancient Babylonian and Greek #astronomy and with an accuracy of just one day's deviation in 60.5 years. While v1 is being laser cut, here's already v2. Call me a moonatic.

From the category Single-purpose online tools. Minimator is a minimalist graphical editor from London-based web developer maxwellito. You can download your work of art as SVG. Have fun with it!
https://minimator.app/

My virtual mechanical moon phase calculator https://www.thomasweibel.ch/meton/ is to become real - as a physical acrylic glass model, based on ancient Babylonian and Greek astronomy and with an accuracy of just one day's deviation in 60.5 years. Next stop: Laser cutter. Not exactly a leap for mankind, but a small step for me.

Not sure if I fully understand this #WebApp, but it's still fun to play around with it: https://weavescape.net

Full demo of my GPL'ed #gandalf_links link-aggregation web app, including its new accompanying Firefox browser extension.