OK, I am a very specific kind of nerd, but I laughed until I almost cried reading this story:
tl;dr: There's a band on Spotify called Velvet Sundown that is almost certainly nothing but AI generated songs, and some guy who is good at social engineering essentially took over their identity on Twitter.
I want to make a static website to sell or give away my excess stuff.
I could hand code it and then copy paste in different image urls and description text, and update an index manually - but that's a real nuisance amount of ongoing work for every new listing.
So I want a static site generator where I dump some text and images into a folder, run it, and it resizes the images, makes me a html page based on a template, and updates the index page.
Really simple right! I am capable of coding such a thing, in principle. But I'm not a coder or any sort of programmer on a regular basis. I'm not even sure what language I'd use - it's been a while since I wrote any code for anything other than openscad!
So questions
1: Does such a static site generator already exist I could just use with minimal setup and learning the context?
2. What's a nice cosy coding environment with low barriers to entry I could set up to write it myself?
Is there an easy to use tool that analyses a webpage and tells me the total data downloaded to download the page, where it was downloaded from, the scripts invoked client side, whether they were 2nd or third party and the local cpu use to run them and so on?
Could be an online tool where I enter the URL or it could be a firefox extension, or something else, but I don't have the patience to set up anything complicated.
I'm not even sure what hashtags to use for this question. suggestions?
Is there any system on the fedi to facilitate the transfer of physical goods?
For example a secondhand marketplace, freecycle, or anything in between that helps people who need stuff meet people who have stuff. It would need to be localised obv.
I have been cleaning and tidying and I have stuff to give away and maybe some to sell or trade.
please boost! I'm not even sure what hashtags to use.
EDIT: several people have suggested Flohmarkt.
https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/
I have not looked into what it takes to host a flohmarkt instance, but if there were one for the UK, or especially for northern england/southern scotland, then I would use it.
I don't see a UK instance so far, except the one hosted by @neil which seems to be personal for his own stuff is that right?
I've converted the step file to stl using #freecad. Seems OK.
Converting it to editable openscad is more ambitious, and it wouldn't surprise me if it's impossible.
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