Jan Miksovsky is a veteran software designer and engineer, founder of multiple companies, and creator of innovative projects like Web Origami and Elix, blending programming, design, and independent web technologies.
8 articles from this blog
A year-end review of the Web Origami project's 2025 goals, covering community growth, feature development, and technical challenges.
Explores extending JavaScript's Map class to create a FileMap for file system interaction and discusses building a custom build system.
A guide to building a simple blog in Python using lazy, Origami-inspired concepts and Python 3.14's async features.
Origami expression language shifts to a JavaScript dialect, adding paths and async features for concise web development and shell scripting.
Comparing four implementations of a static blog site, focusing on the conciseness of Origami expressions versus traditional JavaScript and frameworks like Astro.
Using the async-tree library to reduce the code size of a minimalist JavaScript static site generator, focusing on abstraction and shared utilities.
A developer explains how to build a minimalist, zero-dependency static site generator from scratch using plain JavaScript objects and functions.
A developer critiques the complexity of static site generators like Astro for simple blogs, based on a hands-on porting project.
