I hear that statically generated web sites are in fashion again

I had a couple beers at a lunch place yesterday and decided to whip up an HTML export for my Emacs-based book database thing, bookiez. It’s the perfect thing to do while you’re a bit tipsy, really. (A different kind of vibe coding…)

But not figuring out the CSS, because that’s just hard. I challenge anybody to remember how to get overflow-x on a td in a dynamically sized table! I double dare ya! So I had to do that part today.

Anyway, I put the results here — all mah books. You can just M-x bookiez-generate-html and then rsync the resulting directory to an HTML hosting provider somewhere.

You can list the authors…

… the book details…

… and genres.

(No Javascript was used during the production of these web pages.)

Hm… This stuff might actually even be useful — you can keep track of what books you have while you’re on the go without pulling up a laptop running Emacs! (And by “you” here I mean “I”.)

Erhm… perhaps I should make the tables more er “responsive”. That is, drop the date columns when there really isn’t room for them. *tinker*

Yeah, OK, that works.

Anyway. There you go. Hours of fun! Utility!

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