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Re: Ask HN: Looking for lightweight personal blogging platform

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Post by thatgurjot »

readscore wrote: post #17

If you don't need tagging (as http://danluu.com/ doesn't, for example), you can use my "no workflow" solution: * draft in markdown * render in HTML (using any Markdown to HTML tool, e.g. pandoc) * link your CSS in the HTML file. * push to your preferred serving platform This has the advantage of getting you started as quick as you can open an editor. If after 5 posts you are wanting a tool, pick whichever (Hugo).

I like this as a starting point, gonna recommend it from now on!

Although the benefit of using a static site generator like Hugo is the ability to short codes to reuse code snippets (like embedding videos or images). But that can wait - getting five posts out first is important!

Re: Ask HN: Looking for lightweight personal blogging platform

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Post by DarrenDev »

A variation of this post pops up here a lot. Reminds me of writers on writing forums looking for the perfect "light weight" word processor.

Problem being, everyone has one "must have" feature that they want along with the light-weight solution. And for every writer that "must have" feature is different.

When you join all the single, one-off "must haves" together you end up with Microsoft Word.

As for blogging platforms, I use wordpress.com. Paid, not free. No work at all on my end apart from writing. Haven't thought about the platform in a long while now.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for lightweight personal blogging platform

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Post by jurassicfoxy »

egberts1 wrote: post #58
jonpurdy wrote: post #41

I have been using Pelican with a modified new.css theme. Recently migrated from hosting on a DO instance with Nginx to Github Pages. What I'd love to do is totally remove the SSG from this pipeline and replace it with a WYSIWYG editor (blasphemy, I know). Or at least something that I could just drag and drop images to so I don't have to manually link them in the .md files. I'd also like to totally remove the CSS from…

I have all the settings documented for Pelican. And hOWTOs for code syntax highlighting too. Under "Pelican" tag on this Pelican blog of mine: https://egbert.net/blog/tags/pelican.html

Nice work! I love underground documentation. Dubious font color choice ;)

Re: Ask HN: Looking for lightweight personal blogging platform

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Post by egberts1 »

jurassicfoxy wrote: post #76
egberts1 wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have all the settings documented for Pelican. And hOWTOs for code syntax highlighting too. Under "Pelican" tag on this Pelican blog of mine: https://egbert.net/blog/tags/pelican.html

Nice work! I love underground documentation. Dubious font color choice ;)

DUBIOUS, MY ... ah, thank you.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for lightweight personal blogging platform

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Post by 2cynykyl »

tagyro wrote: post #44

Quarto - https://quarto.org I've been searching for some time also, more or less the same requirements, and I settled on quarto. Give it a try, you won't be disappointed!

Cannot agree more! It's a new product made by Posit, who are behind R and RStudio. I think it pulls together Knitr and a few other technologies.

Features: * It has a "blog" mode for listing posts in order, pulls out thumbnails, snippets, etc. * It has a pre-made github action that builds on each push * It lets you write blog posts in jupyter notebooks, OR * You can use the "quarto markdown" flavor and put text and run code blocks in the same file. * Supports python and R code (ATM) * Supports Giscus for comments

Only downside is that there are limited themes, which are a bit unexciting. I'm sure people will be adding more once this catches on.

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