Jan Miksovsky’s blog

How and why I journal

Code is more concise than configuration: comparing a sample blog in Web Origami and Eleventy

Code is more expressive than configuration: comparing a sample blog in Web Origami and Eleventy

Code is more coherent than configuration: comparing a sample blog in Web Origami and Eleventy

Code is easier to follow than configuration: comparing a sample blog in Web Origami and Eleventy

Who else would use a shared Electron library to create and deploy Netlify sites?

Promoting a design and development tool through comics

2025 Web Origami year-end report

Fixing the under-appreciated JavaScript Map class and using it to construct a build system

Fixing the under-appreciated JavaScript Map class and using it to construct a build system

Creating a simple blog in Python with Origami concepts

Making Origami expressions easier to learn and use

Write a very concise static site generator with Origami expressions

Making a small JavaScript blog static site generator even smaller using the general async-tree library

This minimalist static site generator pattern is only for JavaScript developers who want something small, fast, flexible, and comprehensible

Static site generators like Astro are actually pretty complex for the problems they solve

Home science and engineering projects that my kids and I enjoyed

Pull your documentation site content from your own GitHub wiki

Writing a VS Code extension in ES modules in early 2025

I wrote a screenplay for a programming language introduction, then wrote a program to turn that into a motion comic

2024 was a good year — Web Origami year end project report