Zb, a self-contained zip blog
Zb, a self-contained zip blog launched on April 29, 2022 with 39 votes, #810 of 2,974 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.
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Zb is a self-contained zip blog that lets users create and share blog content in a compressed format. Launched in 2022, it offers a lightweight alternative to traditional blogging platforms by packaging blog posts and assets into zip files. The tool is designed for anyone looking for a minimal, portable way to maintain a blog without requiring complex infrastructure or external dependencies.
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This is my approach at creating a self-contained website. The whole site will be embedded as a Zip archive right in the server binary file, so it is probably the most portable website you'll ever have. One of zb 's unique features it that it will render HTML, Markdown and Org-Mode files, so if you prefer to write .org files instead of HTML, zb has you covered. I first saw the concept of single binary websites in Ted Unangst's blog where he complained that Go couldn't do this just as easily, because of its broken support for embedded Zip files. As I play with both Go and Rust every now and then, I thought "how hard could it be to do it in Rust?". You'll need a Zip file, containing your…from code.rosaelefanten.org
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