Static as a Roq

An airhacks.fm conversation with Andy Damevin about: Texas Instruments TI-BASIC calculator with GOTO and GOSUB, programming games including a trading game on the calculator, sending programs from a computer to the calculator, building viral Facebook games with the social graph API, PHP and MySQL with iframes and OAuth for Facebook authentication, earning revenue with ads and paid credits, a first serious Java project simulating cars moving across lab screens over TCP/IP sockets with threads and shortest-path routing, comparison with Java mobile agents and Aglets, JBoss Seam and Java EE, moving to Spring then quarkus, founding a company and building the Wazzam events app with Java, Spring, Angular and PhoneGap, joining Red Hat and the Quarkus team, building the code.quarkus.io launcher, creating Quarkus Quinoa to integrate NPM front-end builds into the Quarkus lifecycle with a dev proxy, the Quarkus Web Bundler for bundling web applications without NPM using WebJars and Maven NPM dependencies, minification and hashed asset versioning, Deno as a faster and lighter Node alternative delivered as architecture-dependent Maven and Gradle dependencies, Roq the Quarkus static site generator exporting a running Quarkus application as HTML snapshots, the Qute template engine with compiled type-safe templates CDI access and iteration, static site publishing via Git to GitHub Pages or Netlify, using a scheduler and CDI events or jgit to regenerate and push pages offline, the RoqGenerator application-scoped bean with a generate method, dev mode versus prod mode differences, Roq as suitable for developers and AI with MCP integration and Playwright for iterative design, AI for processing content into summaries and translations from Markdown asciidoc JSON and YAML, an integrated WordPress-style editor for writers with Git sync, and devoured.fyi a static AI and developer NeWS site built with Roq using Tailwind and plain Vanilla JS

Andy Damevin on twitter: @ia3andy