#neocities api

[brightgreendandelions]

what do you think is the chance it will work?

(i haven't tested this at all)

[cyberm0sh]

nerdy website people!!

i am looking for a free website hosting service that supports programming languages and server-side scripting for a personal project

i’ve tried neocities and unfortunately they do not support server side scripting!!

thank you sososo much for any leads <3

[sharkcatshark]

okay so fucking apparently theres an annual programming magical mirai contest to create an interactive lyric web app using their api so guess what im gonna be attempting over the next 2-3 months

[ladyargento]

Neocities API calls

Trying to do fancy shit like make an async api call to the PoetryDB to get 4 random lines from the the history of English poetry and inserting them as scrolling text but naturally the page loads before the api call goes through, so you never get to see that. Trying to think of a solution but it might be one of those things that's a bit too much

[beelzeebabe]

XML/RSS Post Creator for Neocities

I'm sharing this code because I find it super convenient for making RSS Post on neocities. You still need to copy and paste the code it generates into you rss.xml file; but it saves your drafts, has templates, and you can put a IMGBB api key right into the "configuration box" and it saves via local storage so that way your api key is safe (since it isn't in your code) and you can easily upload photos directly from your files. I use it for every post i make it honestly freaking great. Don't forget to customize it since this is obviously tailored to my website haha.

If you need a blog template to get started, here you go!

[sincerely-sofie]

Check-in for 01/28/24

It's been a while since I did one of these. Time to remedy that!

I've been doing well in my assignments, but due to some registration issues at the start of the semester I was unable to sign up for any web development or programming classes :< It's nice to take a break, but I'm really worried about getting stagnant in those skills, and maybe even losing what I've learned over time.

This is where a couple of new projects come in: A blorbo database and a tool for drawing pokemon from memory. These things are going to keep me avoid stagnancy and help me develop my web dev and Python programming skills, and I'm real excited to talk about them.

First up, let's talk about that tool for drawing pokemon from memory. I love drawing pokemon from memory, but it's a bit of a struggle to find tools online that work well for a solo experience when you're doing this challenge alone. So I made a program in PyGame to solve this problem, and I've actually already completed it! It was a great learning experience when it came to getting a taste of APIs, and PokeAPI really helped me do all the heavy lifting with it. I also ended up using ChatGPT to help me understand how to phrase my questions and the things I needed to research. This is the end result:

If you click "Get Random Pokemon", the program will provide a pokemon's name. The point of it is to draw the pokemon as best as you remember it, and then click "Show Pokemon Image" to see how you did. You will then have the option to get a new random pokemon, which clears the image from the window.

There's a lot of stuff I don't understand about how the program works--- APIs evade my understanding, and Tkinter is a dark art beyond my comprehension. But I was able to make a program that solved a genuine problem for me for the first time, and that's super exciting to me!

Now, for web development--- long story short, I'm making a website dedicated to cataloguing my OCs that's very much inspired by tumblr user @snekkerdoodles's personal site on neocities, which I regularly stare at in an effort to motivate myself to make cool things like it (everyone reading this should check his page out IMMEDIATELY and tell him how cool it is). Here's the screenshots of the WIP I'm chipping away at right now:

I don't have much to say about it, as the interesting stuff will really be the content of the pages, and I still have yet to finish the template page I'll be filling with my OCs' information. However, I can say that I'm very upset with the lack of proper teaching that took place in the first (and currently only) college web dev class I've taken. I spent an entire semester doing my own research to learn everything they were supposed to be teaching us. I'm still very peeved about that.

To summarize this very rambling post I'm too sleepy to edit properly, I'm making a digital blorbo encyclopedia, and I finished making a little desktop app thingy, which means I need to summon a new programming project. I'm tempted to make it a video game... maybe I should turn back to that visual novel idea I had ages ago and boot up RenPy!

[43501]

Any other socials you’re on? ☺️

Hi! Tumblr is basically it. Every other platform is either unsuitable or outright hostile for the stuff I want to use it for (long-form reading and writing). I have accounts in other places, but none are anywhere near as active as I am here.

Pillowfort - Reasonably active but site is non-algorithmic and slow-moving. Art-focused, I reblog artwork I like and post my own as well. This is a NSFW-enabled site and I post a lot of it but you can make it invisible with the flip of a toggle if you don't want to see it.

Neocities - Not social media, it's static site hosting with a feed. But I have a personal page I occasionally update with this or that. I treat it like an e-scrapbook. I also have another site here that's my pride and joy full of original content for a fantasy setting, for a TTRPG campaign I've been playing the past 5 years.

Twitter/X - Would rather not be here, but there are some artists I love who adamantly refuse to post anywhere else. Check follow feed, scan the "for you" page every 2-3 days, see a mix of original artworks and Death Note content. I do not post here, just reblog/reply to things occasionally.

I'd like to complain bitterly about Twitter and justify why I use it minimally.

1) Disabled API access. Before Elon Musk took over, I used tools like TweetDeck and Twimfeed to curate my view. TweetDeck is now paywalled and Twimfeed no longer exists. 2) No true tagging/search functions. Here, I track the [#death note] tag and can see it every time someone throws a piece of art/writing/media in there. On Twitter there is no such function and people will post their content with no way to find it in the first place 90% of the time. 3) Bad for the stuff I actually want to engage with - long-form text isn't possible without stupid workarounds, using the site in explicitly contrary ways like posting 50-Tweet "threads" or screenshots of one's notes app. Art is also compressed more on Twitter than it is here (did you know that pre-2018, Tumblr had raw/native resolution images?) 4) Erodes my happiness by regularly serving me the most day-ruining, mind-destroying bullshit. Twitter shows me an alarming amount of pro-eating disorder, pro-self harm content even though absolutely none of my activity should indicate I want to see those topics. When it's not trying to tell me to starve or cut myself, it's still often putting inflammatory content in front of me. Inflammatory content ranges from vitriolic alt-right discourse to fourteen-year-old girls doxxing each other for thought crimes.

[abberantmachine]

I think I am just going to have to use Neocities for image hosting for now until I get a better grasp of how to manage CDNs/APIs or whatever properly. I do have a subscription account so it's not like I'm just freeloading, but I still recognise this is less than ideal.

It'll take a while longer for me to get my head around all that. Which is annoying, but... I don't think this is something I can get away with hacking together.

[basketsjourney]

PluralKit "Are we awake?" frontend - A simple web client for the PluralKit API, displaying whether your system has at least one current frontier, by the Iris System, Pluralkit's maintainers!

Hello! We have emerged from the ground to talk about this little application/add-on.

If you ask how we found this, I spent like 30 minutes trying to find something like this because of front.plural.codes stopped working for us, so we needed an alternative.

If you're a system who uses Pluralkit, specifically the autoproxy option on front mode, then this might be for you.

The "Are we awake?" frontend is a web client that uses the Pluralkit's API to put in a nice page who is currently fronting! This is helpful for systems who doesn't want to share other applications such as Simply plural but still wants to disclose their current fronters.

Not only does it allow you to use a personalised URL for your own system using your PK Syetem ID, it also let's you embed the script to your own domain such as Neocities or even Carrd.

Here is the main page for setting up your own URL:

For more information and source code, under the cut

[pizzacatdelight]

Seriously

I' ve only been here for 5 months and now there's rumors that Tumblr is going to shut down in the future!?! Just great! Something for me to panic at 3-4am before I'm supposed to get my booster shot this morning! Just fantastic!

Anyways, when that happened, I'll just go back to Reddit. Yes Reddit. I've returned to that site after abandoning when the API blackout happened. But I'm only going on the browser version because there is an app called, "Sink It For Reddit", where it uses features from one of the depared 3rd party app, Apollo and it only works on the browser. But like when I was on Reddit, I won't comment or post due to anxiety and fear of getting bullied for the stuff I post.

I have Mastodon, which I rarely posted and only follow the hashtags. Still confused how the federation works. There's Instagram, where I made a secondary account, a few months back just to like fanart and be in the fandom in order to separate from my primary account (which I have mostly abandoned at this point).

Then there's Neocities, which I'm still on and there's even people who liked my site due to being cute! It's been a bit since I linked my site here, so I'll post it here incase anyone wants to see what I have been up to.

Even if the rumors are true, I will still be on Tumblr until its' dying days. I hope it's not true and things works out for the @staff. If not, then I hope that the skeleton crew might me the hellsite better.

Until then, enjoys my reblogs and my occasion posts.

[koshekdev]

Ok, so I've made two prototypes for the dress up games I am planning to publish to my neocities site.

First one just stores dresses and shoes in an array and overlays them as u click on the arrows. The assets were made by @v4mp1r3fr34k and the background was taken with Nokia Express Music <3

Second one has actual drag'n'drop. I didn't have any assets for it so I just took the first royalty free pngs I could find XD It will not stay like this, tho I am glad the vintage babe is enjoying the club. I made it with just HTML Drag and Drop API. As you drop it, it snaps into place thanks to appendChild method, which I learned about reading the d'n'd docs yesterday. I was afraid I was going to have to track the x,y positions of the elements on screen, but thank god appendChild solved that for me XD

I'll try to make them responsive as possible ;_; I'll also try to make the previous ads responsive cuz some people in my life are peer pressuring me...

[flyingwhalegirl]

oh yeah and if you don't feel like using neocities' horrible editor and archaic ui or you want to do more complex stuff, fear not! neocities is in fact pure html and css so the process is exactly the same as creating a site from scratch; you can even take a neocities site and host it standalone if you want. Pro tip: PHP and javascript aren't as hard as they sound, a domain is 5 bucks a year for a cheap one that you can grab from namecheap or porkbun or wherever the hell, and you can get better free hosting with a service like Netlify.

This is how my personal site in my bio works: I work on a local copy of the site on my pc, which I can push to a repo on my Github. This means all the HTML, CSS, and JS is mine (and stackoverflow's). Netlify then grabs that and within 15 seconds of me pushing a change to Github, it's reflected in the live copy. I do have to pay a yearly domain fee, but it means I get complete control over my site, access to better tools to make it awesome, and faster, more reliable hosting.

If you already have a neocities site that you want to move off of there for either ux reasons or technical limitations, you can just reuse all your code and host this way too! And the same goes the other way round, if you don't want to pay for a domain, you can move your own site over to neocities for free!

neocities guide - why you should build your own html website

do you miss the charm of the 90s/00s web where sites had actual personality instead of the same minimalistic theme? are you feeling drained by social media and the constant corporate monopoly of your data and time? do you want to be excited about the internet again? try neocities!!

what is neocities?

neocities is a free hosting website that lets you build your own html website from scratch, with total creative control. in their own words: "we are tired of living in an online world where people are isolated from each other on boring, generic social networks that don't let us truly express ourselves. it's time we took back our personalities from these sterilized, lifeless, monetized, data mined, monitored addiction machines and let our creativity flourish again."

why should I make my own website?

web3 has been overtaken by capitalism & conformity. websites that once were meant to be fun online social spaces now exist solely to steal your data and sell you things. it sucks!! building a personal site is a great way to express yourself and take control of your online experience.

what would I even put on a website?

the best part about making your own site is that you can do literally whatever the hell you want! focus on a specific subject or make it a wild collection of all your interests. share your art! make a shrine for one of your interests! post a picture of every bird you see when you step outside! make a collection of your favorite blinkies! the world is your oyster !! here are some cool example sites to inspire you: recently updated neocities sites | it can be fun to just look through these and browse people's content! space bar | local interstellar dive bar creature feature | halloween & monsters big gulp supreme peanutbuttaz | personal site dragodiluna linwood | personal site patho grove | personal site

getting started: neocities/html guide

sound interesting? here are some guides to help you get started, especially if you aren't familiar with html/css sadgrl.online webmastery | a fantastic resource for getting started with html & web revival. also has a layout builder that you can use to start with in case starting from scratch is too intimidating web design in 4 minutes | good for learning coding basics w3schools | html tutorials templaterr | demo & html for basic web elements eggramen test pages | css page templates to get started with sadgrl background tiles | bg tiles rivendell background tiles | more free bg tiles

fun stuff to add to your site

want your site to be cool? here's some fun stuff that i've found blinkies-cafe | fantastic blinkie maker! (run by @transbro & @graphics-cafe) gificities | internet archive of 90s/00s web gifs internet bumper stickers | web bumper stickers momg | gif gallery 99 gif shop | 3d gifs 123 guestbook | add a guestbook for people to leave messages cbox | add a live chat box moon phases | track the phases of the moon gifypet | a little clickable page pet adopt a shroom | mushroom page pet tamaNOTchi | virtual pet crossword puzzle | daily crossword imood | track your mood neko | cute cat that chases your mouse pollcode | custom poll maker website hit counter | track how many visitors you have

web revival manifestos & communities

also, there's actually a pretty cool community of people out there who want to bring joy back to the web! melonland project | web project/community celebrating individual & joyful online experiences. Also has an online forum melonland intro to web revival | what is web revival? melonking manifesto | status cafe | share your current status nightfall city | online community onio.cafe | leave a message and enjoy the ambiance sadgrl internet manifesto | yesterweb internet manifesto | sadly defunct, still a great resource reclaiming online social spaces | great manifesto on cultivating your online experience

in conclusion

i want everyone to make a neocities site because it's fun af and i love seeing everyone's weird personal sites that they made outside of the control of capitalism :) say hi to me on neocities

[nuzzy]

so yeah we’ve all seen that “tumblr is gonna be run by a skeleton staff” post right? so I just wanted to give people some places to find me on!

discord - hpkris44

reddit (which I’m actually pretty glad I kept my account after the API thing) - nuzzy_1

AO3 - nuzzy

youtube (no videos or stuff there but yeah) - nuzzy123

and I’m also planning to try to make a neocities thing where I’ll upload my art! the only thing is that I actually need to code it….

note: I’m not jumping ship from tumblr(right now atleast), I just to have a chance for people who like my stuff to find me when tumblr eventually shuts down.

[mtg-player1]

hey in the post where you gave website ideas you said to send an ask for coding related ones you had if anyone wanted them. Those sound really interesting for me if you have time to send some?

I don't know if they're gonna be new to you, but I do have a couple!

So there's the most famous one probably: stackoverflow - solves problems. If there's something specific you don't know how to do or you get a weird error message.

I think also it's useful to keep in mind that most, or possibly all, libraries you import from will have documentation or a reference page. Just search it up for each API/library name. Those sites can be fairly useful. If nothing else, you might end up with a more specific question.

And then there's Mozilla webdocs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web (in the references tab). Some people don't like this one, I've used it a lot

If you want to be taught stuff properly, without knowing what questions to ask at all, w3schools is probably the way to go. They have more languages than I can be bothered to type out, but for example HTML, python and C++. This is free just like all the previous btw.

scrimba also exists, I haven't really used it, but it is based on interactive videos I believe. It costs money depending on you. They have a free plan and two paid ones.

And for finding APIs: rapidapi.com has quite a lot. Some cost money, some are free. Usually you can use something for a bit for free and later it costs money. Spotify also has an API which I think is free, that's what all those spotify statistics websites use (obscurifymusic, spotistats, spotifytools, etc).

Then onto more specifically HTML/CSS related websites: google fonts (free fonts). flexboxfroggy (learn flexbox CSS), pixabay (royalty free images), color.review (check if your color contrast is good enough), wireframing (layouts and stuff, not coding).

And importantly: w3 dot org! There's a lot of info there about accessibility, including guidelines. Take note of this page: web accessibility evaluation tools (websites).

I don't remember what these are, I just found them in my bookmarks: webdesignerwall.com, css zen garden, css-tricks, smashingmagazine.com, kevinpowell.co, rfc-editor.org, coolors.org, caniuse.com .

digital safety frameworks: ISO/IEC 27002:2013 , The 18 CIS Critical Security Controls, NCSC CAF guidance, Cybersecurity Framework | NIST, SP 800-53 – NIST Risk Management Framework | CSRC, Information Security Manual (ISM) | Cyber.gov.au, Federal Office for Information Security (Germany), COBIT | Control Objectives for Information Technologies | ISACA, OWASP Foundation , ITIL | IT Service Management | Axelos 

and digital safety laws (obiously check your own countries laws (at least a summary)): General Data Protection Regulation - GDPR, The Directive on security of network and information systems - NIS Directive, EU Cybersecurity Act, Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, Cloud Act Resources 

with the laws and frameworks they're most useful if you're not sure, realistically you can't read all of that. But yeah. if you're in the EU or EEA (or expect users from there) you should definetly make sure you understand the basics of the GDPR if you're collecting any data from users that aren't yourself.

This was longer than I expected. This isn't even all that's out there. You might find some stuff on alternativeto.com, articles and web searches too. And also a couple more websites on my neocities, mostly accessibility stuff, not sure if there's anything that's not covered here there though.

[for anyone finding this through tags: I am a queer guy who uses neopronouns and interacting is showing support and appriciation for my queer identity, not just the post.]

[ladyargento]

Neocities API call - continued

Managed to make the API call to the poetryDB work.

[tfemby]

Neovim - A journey in the wacky world of text editing

Lately I've been sick of my old Vim config. I set it up close to decade ago and have been putting off updating the config since before a certain virus found it's way to all of our doorsteps. So many of the plugins I've been using are ancient and flat out don't work with Vim8 or just kind of suck.

For years, it worked fine for the perl, bash and odd rakudo scripts I wrote. I remember spending hours looking around for plugins that helped me solved issues but sadly, many aren't cutting it anymore. Thinking seriously about spending a dozen or more hours doing that again, I said,

"Screw it, I keep seeing people talk about Neovim online, what's all the buzz about? It sucked the last time I used it. What's changed?"

The last time I tried out Neovim was around 2015/2016 and it was pretty much the exact same as Vim with one caveat - many of the plugins I wanted didn't work with it well and the darn thing constantly crashed. It's been enough time, right? Probably everything is fixed?

I opened up my Vim one last time, wrote a quick note in my config file which simply read the date, and I finally said goodbye to Vim. I had a whole world of possibilities to explore!

Neovim: Endless possibilities

So where to start... Vim is known for having a configuration file which uses Vim's own language; aptly named Vimscript. Vimscript works fine but you'll only ever use it for Vim and nothing else. Some of the issues I've had with Vimscript were that it just feels as old as it looks. Want to make your own custom additions to a plugin? You're going to mentally have to go back to the days where everybody was on IRC and Neocities was the default for personal webpages. It's a language that definitely feels it's age.

Neovim in comparison has come up with a solution to this and allows you to use Vimscript but there's an interesting twist. Lua. The infamous programming language that everybody has heard about from their favourite games but never looked into. I have some fond memories of opening gmod and joining a server then waiting a solid 40 minutes for everything to load in. In that progress screen, I saw many mysterious .lua filenames as I cursed about Aussie internet being so garbage. There were so many mysteries behind what those scripts could have been but peak gamer laziness got the better of most of me, and likely many of you reading (for non-millenials, it's Roblox that's likely associated with lua).

Gaming tangent aside, Neovim allows you to configure your text editor with a fully fledged programming language. I've seen old vim scripts do some incredible things but boy, was I in for a world of overwhelming complexity, confusion, dopamine and just pure euphoria.

Looking through the world through the lua looking glass

I know, I know, there's plenty more stuff to Neovim besides it using Lua so I'm quickly mentioning that the Neovim API has been wonderful. It's insanely well documented and mix that together with Lua, you can probably write doom in the thing... including making it work as multiplayer since the editor has the capability of tcp/ip. This exists to allow you to remotely control you editor from elsewhere, perhaps from your phone?

So what did I do when I first installed Neovim? Well I obviously went to the website page and immediately didn't understand a single thing. Everything was foreign and I had 0 idea about Lua. I went to my old and trusted vimscript instincts to get some basics up and running such as indenting, line numbers, column highlighting and so on.

Once I had something that felt vaguely familiar, I went and took a look at how to implement these things in lua. It was surprisingly... easy. Take the following couple of lines of Vimscript (from my vimrc) and compare it to my nvim/init.lua.

.vimrc set smartindent set cursorcolumn set cursorline

.config/nvim/init.lua local options = { smartindent = true, cursorcolumn = true, cursorline = true } for j, k in pairs(options) do vim.opt[j] = k end

As you can see, the lua version is a bit longer but effectively everything you're used to in vim is easily accessible via vim.opt.. I am lazy and put all of the options into a loop to prepend all of them.

You also have the option of vim.cmd('command') if you want to just want to copy and paste your old configurations in. The looping trick also works for vim.cmd.

Lastly, on this post, I will say that there is vim.g for things you're previously use let g:<action> on in old vim.

I may post more as I have interesting things setup with LSP, linters/formatters/code actions and more.