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2026

Hosting static HTMLs

While I'm on vacation and Mac Mini 2024 (my home server) is turned off, I wanted to host HackerNews legible frontend (html file) on the Internet with minimum setup as possible.

Hosting static HTMLs

While I'm on vacation and Mac Mini 2024 (my home server) is turned off, I wanted to host HackerNews legible frontend (html file) on the Internet with minimum setup as possible.

Obvious choices like Cloudflare Workers, Github Pages and all their variants were ruled out as they require accounts, backed by big corps while I wanted something indy.

Playing with Surge, made me realise it's a nice way to host static html artifacts created with AI, so here it is: https://hotter.surge.sh.

Operations 
(let ((default-directory "~/Developer/src/github.com/velppa/hotter.surge.sh"))
  (async-shell-command
    ;; "surge --help"
    ;; "surge files hotter.surge.sh"
    ;; "surge . hotter.surge.sh" ;; deploy
    "make deploy"
    "*hotter.surge.sh*"))

(setq surge-server (ws-file-server :dir "~/Developer/src/github.com/velppa/hotter.surge.sh" :port 9004))
(ws-stop surge-server)

Trying Textpod once again

On <2026-04-13 Mon> I installed Textpod on Mac Book Pro M1 using Cargo (Rust tooling).

Trying Textpod once again

On <2026-04-13 Mon> I installed Textpod on Mac Book Pro M1 using Cargo (Rust tooling).

Good:

  • Separate from notes, and from blog.
  • Managing ton of markdown files for small notes that I produce - huge overkill
  • I want something like this, write in org-mode, press a button (call elisp function) and heading is sent to website.
  • Open source, so I can fork and improve it for my needs.
    • ☑ make a fork - ~/Developer/src/github.com/velppa/textpod
  • Can make it prettier.

Open questions:

  • ☑ Does it have an API? Like I would select a Org text, convert it to Markdown and send to Textpod.
    • use {M-x textpod-org-region-to-note} function
  • ☑ How to increase font? Increased in the sources.
  • ☑ Token access, for hosting on finita-la-comedia
  • ☑ Internal Org Roam links are pasted as markdown files. So in theory, I could somehow expose them.

I ended up forking it to https://github.com/velppa/textpod and greatly improving it for my needs. You're reading notes served by Textpod v0.2.0. It is my project.

Notable changes:

  • Read-only mode with token authentication: The app now supports an optional --token flag that enables authentication. When a token is set, users without the token see a read-only interface where they can only search notes. Access is granted via a ?token=X query parameter (which sets a cookie) or a Bearer token in the Authorization header. The UI dynamically adjusts based on authentication status, hiding edit/delete controls and changing the editor placeholder for unauthenticated users.
  • Enhanced note management: Notes now have unique IDs based on timestamps, enabling direct access via /note/:id URLs. PUT method allows editing notes (upserting if not found).
  • Subpath support: to deploy on your domain under subpath, supply --base-path notes flag. Then notes will be under /notes subpath.
  • The app watches the notes file for external changes and automatically reloads.
  • The link archiving feature lets users prefix URLs with + to both raw urls and Markdown-formatted.
  • Special handling of links to .md files: They appear when exporting from Org-roam. These are internal links and Textpod now turns them into search by filename, effectively returning all mentions of this concept. Poor man zettelkasten import.
  • UI improvement: larger fonts, footer, better code snippets for dark mode, tags on the heading.
  • textpod.el: Companion Emacs package for quick sending notes to Textpod.

Later changes to setup will go into separate notes.