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Re: Show HN: Makesite – A static site generator in 125 lines of Python

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Post by citilife »

Philipp__ wrote: post #5

Hugo is still most convenient, at least for me and my workflow. I just pull it with homebrew, created my theme/template, write blogposts in Emacs org-mode (using ox-hugo), host it on GH pages for free, and use custom domain and free tier cloudflare. I am really enjoying bare essentials I got, very streamlined process that does the job for me. This looks interesting, I really like minimalist aspects of software, but w…

Alright - I like your website layout: https://defphil.com/

But to be fair, some people may want different features than the bare minimum. Also, even if Hugo is the most convenient as an org-mode user, I highly doubt it'd be the most convenient for others (who don't use org-mode lol).

Also, you should write more posts!

Re: Show HN: Makesite – A static site generator in 125 lines of Python

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Post by chiefalchemist »

paulgb wrote: post #9
Philipp__ wrote: post #5

Hugo is still most convenient, at least for me and my workflow. I just pull it with homebrew, created my theme/template, write blogposts in Emacs org-mode (using ox-hugo), host it on GH pages for free, and use custom domain and free tier cloudflare. I am really enjoying bare essentials I got, very streamlined process that does the job for me. This looks interesting, I really like minimalist aspects of software, but w…

Another free solution that may involve even less setup is Netlify's free tier, which includes 1-click HTTPS setup on a custom domain and reruns Hugo every time you push to the repo.

Moi? I love the idea of minimal. KISS is a wonderful thing.

That said, anything more and a handful of pages (and especially something blog-y) needs search. Else the UX could take on too much friction.

A couple weeks ago I saw something about a tool Facebook OS'ed for doing project documentation. I believe that was static and had search. I think. Unfortunately, I didn't go so far as to see if you could fake a (not for docs) website with it.

Re: Show HN: Makesite – A static site generator in 125 lines of Python

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Post by IanCal »

chiefalchemist wrote: post #14
paulgb wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Another free solution that may involve even less setup is Netlify's free tier, which includes 1-click HTTPS setup on a custom domain and reruns Hugo every time you push to the repo.

Moi? I love the idea of minimal. KISS is a wonderful thing. That said, anything more and a handful of pages (and especially something blog-y) needs search. Else the UX could take on too much friction. A couple weeks ago I saw something about a tool Facebook OS'ed for doing project documentation. I believe that was static and had search. I think. Unfortunately, I didn't go so far as to see if you could fake a (not for…

There's lunr.js, this collection of bits of docs might be useful to look at about search in a Hugo site : https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-add-lunr-js-to-your-sit...

Re: Show HN: Makesite – A static site generator in 125 lines of Python

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Post by charlesdaniels »

Personally, I used Jekyll for a while before switching to a simple Makefile based approach. I write everything in Markdown, which gets compiled via Pandoc, concatenated with a header and footer. I also recently started using pygments to generate colorized inline HTML to syntax highlight code blocks.

If anyone is interested, I wrote up the process[1], although I have not updated the post with the pygments script yet.

[1] - http://cdaniels.net//2017-11-22_make-static-site.html

Re: Show HN: Makesite – A static site generator in 125 lines of Python

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Post by bArray »

charlesdaniels wrote: post #17

Personally, I used Jekyll for a while before switching to a simple Makefile based approach. I write everything in Markdown, which gets compiled via Pandoc, concatenated with a header and footer. I also recently started using pygments to generate colorized inline HTML to syntax highlight code blocks. If anyone is interested, I wrote up the process[1], although I have not updated the post with the pygments script yet.…

I do something similar, except with a `bash` script and hand writing the titles + dates. I thought about automating that, but work in different time zones so prefer to choose.

One thing I might have of interest to you is a small DNT (DoNotTrack) JS file [1] and some CSS that adds some visual markdown features to the page after the fact [2].

P.S. Your output looks like it's missing `` and other tags? And how are you getting automated code colour highlighting?

[1] http://coffeespace.org.uk/dnt.js

[2] http://coffeespace.org.uk/style.css

Re: Show HN: Makesite – A static site generator in 125 lines of Python

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Post by almata »

After using several different blogging platforms/tools, I finally decided to use instead a GitHub repo for my notes. Something really simple that lets me 1) create a note in plain Markdown, and 2) run a publi.sh script. That's all. After that, the note is already in my GitHub repo ready to be ctrl-f'ed when I'm looking for something I know I documented. In case anyone is interested I used this tool [0], but it was first time in my life creating a Bash script, so fairly assume the code is, well... you know :)

[0]: https://github.com/almata/BlogGit/blob/master/README.md

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