I've released a new version of the RSS plugin for Mkdocs: https://github.com/Guts/mkdocs-rss-plugin/discussions/403
The good news is that it focuses on a significant performance improvement.
The potentially bad news is that this comes at the cost of a major refactoring. So there might be some unpleasant surprises.
Happy testing!
Oh look, a new player in the static site generator space: The "Material for MkDocs" team is saying goodbye to the unmaintained MkDocs base and are instead writing a new, modern SSG from scratch, called Zensical.
https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/blog/2025/11/05/zensical/
It doesn't have feature parity yet, but already looks quite capable. No blogging or custom plugins yet though, else I might've tried Zensical for the upcoming relaunch of my personal site.
I’m sunsetting the Insiders program
I'm redirecting my time and energy from #MkDocs into #Zensical (see the announcement here: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/blog/2025/11/05/zensical/) @zensical
All currently private features will be released to the public this week.
Thank you so much to all my current and past sponsors! You are fantastic
Only the Insiders program comes to an end ($$ -> access to private features): I will continue working on my open source projects, so you can keep sponsoring me if you like my work
(2/3) For those curious about the technical side: we are using #MkDocs to build the website inside #WoodpeckerCI on #Codeberg and push the resulting HTML to #Grebedoc.
We want to thank all the developers of these tools and we want to thank @Codeberg and @whitequark for the hosting of code and website.
As always in this #FOSS world: we build on the work of others to get much further much faster than we could have gone alone and we are so grateful for the FOSS community for making this possible!
Work with mkdocs and audio? Then I’ve got some news for you: I’ve published two new plugins to embed audio in mkdocs with simple markdown syntax. You can even get beautiful waveforms with wavesurfer.js! Details on my blog: https://anderseskildsen.eu/blog/new-mkdocs-plugins-for-embedding-and-visualizing-audio/ #mkdocs #audio #wavesurferjs #python
can't sleep so taking a look at the state of #python static site generators in the wild. Gotta say #mkdocs has taken a big jump upwards in my personal estimation since my last sojourn in this space a few years ago. Material for MkDocs is polished and sharp - https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/.
New to me is Blurry - https://blurry-docs.netlify.app/, which has some spunk. Stapy looks interesting - https://stapy.magentix.fr/.
It's good to see Pelican is still holding it's own (https://getpelican.com/); it would be nice to see some new theme energy.
@lumi @hazel yes, it's easier to avoid:
As for #documentation, #MkDocs-Material and for project managment, #GitLab works fine.
I merely use #GitHub because they ain't got impacted by #DDoS and their moderation team actually cares, and I don't expect other platforms to be able and willing to do the same.
@pancake Relative.
The only thing #StaleBot generates are #duplicates due to new tickets being opened with the exact same problem…
I don't deny the issue at hand; I just think that such a massive pile needs to be combed through better by using tags and prioritization. Even if that means one has split the backlog into half a dozen different baskets that read "feedback", "suggestion", "bug", "security", "ui/ux", "building", "l18n/i18n", "accessibility", "reproduceability", etc...
after switching from mac -> windows at the start of this year, i have finally finally Finally found a suitable replacement for Bear ( https://bear.app ) the best markdown note app, which is unfortunately Apple ecosystem only
mkdocs + plugins (mainly: live-edit, pymdownx.tasklist, search, & more) + local host w/ WSL
requires some CLI work & UI not as clean as Bear, but atleast it’s similar! joplin, obsidian, google docs & many others are just unusable
@ziphi consider just making a simple page?
Or some cheap webhoster like #Netcup or @ubernauten / #Uberspace...
Durch die Umstellung meines Blogs von #Wordpress auf #mkdocs kann ich das Paket bei Hetzner von Level 9 (10,90/Monat) auf Level 1 (2,09/Monat) wechseln Dort sind jetzt nur noch die Email-Postfächer der Familie und die Domains.
Dabei ist mir noch aufgefallen, dass ich beim #Nextcloud Hosting Storage Share für 1TB auf einem Alten Vertrag war (NX30). Habe den auf NX11 umgestellt, der kostet nur die Hälfte (5,11/Monat).
Web hosting advice request
Web hosting advice request
@jonathankoren I'm just the kind of person who expects shit to work on #LynxBrowser over @torproject and if it doesn't then it's ableist trash IMHO.
re: substack, nazis
You'd think generating Markdown docs from Python docstrings would be straightforward and common, but apparently not.
Couldn't get lazydocs to work, reading some other things now…
On the plus side, I can just toss the `.md` files in the right spot, commit them to Codeberg, and get hosted API docs.
If I can't get this to work I can use mkdocs to pull the docstrings, generate HTML and host it on my website.
Is there someone working at #Meta that could relay this? #MkDocs is getting test PRs from trainees, apparently coming from a Meta course on Coursera. See https://github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs/pull/3965 and many other similar PRs in the tracker.
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