LUP 683: Website Speedrun¶
- Air Date: 2026-09-06
- Duration: 70 mins 15 secs
About this episode¶
Brent has two hours to build a great website, and the solution he finds feels more like a Linux tool than a modern web framework. Naturally, Wes takes it too far.
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Episode links¶
- Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD
- 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
- 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
- Jupiter Garage SWAG
- Sorry, I only open regular files Sticker
- Clanker Therapy Session 1 - Member's Stream — We’re taking the hype out of agents and showing the workflows that actually help. Join us for a hands-on walk-through of our Hermes multi-agent setup, how we let agents manage systems safely, and how we introduce them to a new Home Assistant instance without letting them run wild.
- Clanker Therapy Session 1 Highlights - YouTube
- Covered Bridge Cookies — Our cookies have no trans fats and are made with the best ingredients from Vermont based companies. Butter from Cabot, Chocolate from Barre Callebaut of St Albans, and we always use unbleached and unbromated flour along with natural flavorings. We use small batch production techniques that produce an unmistakable home made taste unlike mass-produced cookies.
- Zola — Your one-stop static site engine. Forget dependencies. Everything you need in one binary.
- gerbrent/brentgervais.ca — Landing page for Brent Gervais, built with Zola
- JB Zola Demo Site
- jupiterbroadcasting.com-zola repo — Weekend speedrun port of the JB site to Zola.
- Zola Documentation
- Zola CLI Usage
- Zola Directory Structure
- Zola Installation
- Zola Search
- Zola GitHub
- Zola Changelog
- WintermuteOS — A personalized declarative desktop built from NixOS, Wayland/Hyprland, and QuickShell.
- SwapMarket — Non-custodial Bitcoin swaps marketplace. Swap between different Bitcoin layers while staying in full control.
- SwapMarket/swapmarket.github.io - GitHub — Decentralized and trustless marketplace for Boltz-compatible Bitcoin swap providers.
- Alby Hub CLI — CLI for managing Alby Hub
- trynix — Boot any package nixpkgs ever shipped, in this tab. Pick a package and a version from 13 years of nixpkgs history; its closure is fetched from cache.nixos.org into an x86_64 Linux virtual machine (QEMU compiled to WebAssembly) and you get a shell with the package on PATH. Nothing runs on a server.
- Any Nix package, live in your browser | Farid Zakaria’s Blog
- fzakaria/trynix: Boot anything nixpkgs ever shipped, in your browser.
- Your executable is a SQLite database | Farid Zakaria’s Blog
- Actually Queryable Executables | Farid Zakaria’s Blog
- hughhowey/neo — A novel-writing tool created by a novelist.
- nives — An AI assistant for Home Assistant that remembers. One add-on, and the memory stays on your own machine.
- nives-omarchy — Talk to your Home Assistant house in plain language, from your Omarchy desktop.
- Pick: OpenMouse — OpenMouse runs entirely in your browser over WebHID — DPI, polling rate, buttons, and RGB, for dozens of gaming mice, with no accounts, no installs, and no telemetry sent anywhere.
- OpenMouse Supported Devices
- Pick: Wallos — Open-Source Personal Subscription Tracker
- Wallos on GitHub — Open-source, self-hostable personal subscription tracker. Visualize your recurring expenses, manage your budget, and save money.
Tags¶
ai, ai in education, ai-assisted development, alby, alby hub cli, bitwarden, boosty boosty boost, brentgervais.ca, declarative configuration, deepseek, deepseek v4 flash, desktop customization, github, github pages, go, greg the lawyer, home assistant, hugo, hyprland, jb website, jekyll, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, linux unplugged, logitech, markdown, neo, nives, nives-omarchy, nixos, novel-writing tool, omarchy, open source, openmouse, quickshell, rust, self-hosting, static site generator, subscription tracker, swapmarket, tera, texas linuxfest, trynix.dev, vanity project, vincent prouillet, wallos, wayland, website migration, website speedrun, wintermuteos, wordpress, zola, 📯