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Oliver James
Personal blog · oliverjam.es/articleswebprogramming
Oliver James writes oli, a personal blog at oliverjam.es about web and programming. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a post on scheduling static snapshots of dynamic content with GitHub Actions, which the commenter cites as a way to do it relatively easily.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
I've been interested in the idea of having a user-facing website that generates static copies of its dynamic content on a set schedule. Do any of you have more examples of this? You can do this relatively easily using Github actions. For example, https://oliverjam.es/blog/schedule-netlify-github-actions/
Comment linking /blog/schedule-netlify-github-actions/
on “Kosher search engine powered by 4 car batteries on a passively cooled server”Submitted Writing a simple JSX to HTML renderer (2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Better native form validation (2020) as a story · 1 points
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