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I use Pelican and host on NearlyFreeSpeech.net behind Cloudflare. I really like using Pelican. I'm hardly a front-end dev and I found it easy to create a custom minimalistic theme that I'm quite happy with. No JS required! Fire up your network monitor and head to https://brashear.me/blog/2017/07/30/migration-from-octopress... It's pretty easy to see Octopress was getting to be a pain in my butt due to ruby dependenci…
I wrote a similar blog post: https://tberra.com/aws/amazon/meta/2016/11/12/the-birth-of-a... The main differences on mine are: - I use Jekyll, which is ranked #1 in the static site generator space. - Hosted on AWS S3. - CloudFront in front of S3. - Routing and aliases handled by Route53. - Deployed using a tool called s3_websites (change detection only uploading generated files AND cloud front cache invalidation for…
I also deploy to S3 largely for operational reasons — it costs nothing unless it's getting pretty significant traffic, and it easily scales up to handle ~infinite volume in case I'm not (unlike say running on Digital Ocean or something). Another very nice piece of the puzzle is TLS certificate management using Amazon's ACM. It's no cheaper than Let's Encrypt, but it's a lot more convenient. You put it in place once,…
I wonder why people (many devs included) use stuff like wordpress to host simple blogs. static site generators are a blessing :) I built my own custom static site generator (python + jinja2) for running my side project[1] I just git push and Netlify picks it up. Simple, to the point and no JS. [1] I run https://discoverdev.io , a "product hunt" for top engineering blog posts!
WordPress is easy to set up, supports users and comments (if you want them) and has a lot of really nice features and plugins. WordPress is also slow and a pain in the neck to maintain, but I can understand why people might think the tradeoff is worth it.
I also run my site[1] using my own custom-built generator and I haven't looked back, but even I sometimes miss the ease-of-use that my old WordPress site provided.
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I made my first website using vi to make an index.html file in the ~/public_html directory in the home directory of my account on a university Solaris server back in 1997. FTP was a luxury. Kids today.
Can we avoid the ageism?
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I made my first website using vi to make an index.html file in the ~/public_html directory in the home directory of my account on a university Solaris server back in 1997. FTP was a luxury. Kids today.
Can we avoid the ageism?
Now I use vim.
I also used Hugo for my site - https://testloop.co.uk It's so simple.. and FAST. It's hosted on AWS S3 with CloudFront & Route53 so it's not free, but at a cost of around $1.20 per month, it's not far off.
$1.20 a month is really expensive. I have a whole virtual server for €5 a month (and there are smaller ones) that hosts 10+ sites/apps. EDIT: I just realized that's a question I should ask: Does your price include the domain?
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There is a karma threshold before you can see the down vote arrow (underneath the up vote arrow). It was 200 when I got it, it may be up to 500 by now? I don't think they publish the number.
Right, that's why I recently started checking people's profiles before posting a dissenting reply, and not making the reply if they've enough karma to downvote me.
- posts are rendered from markdown with syntax highlighting for code
- safe links to other domains (noopener and _blank)
- bundled CSS, which look good (or as bad) on mobile
- a PWA (the service worker is the only JS run client-side)
- pre-populated links out to twitter (with a card) and mastodon with tags drawn from markdown metadata
- HTTPS using a letsencrypt cert and a one-liner in cron.daily to update it when close to expiry
- a smallish nginx config focussed on security to serve files
Much of the generator is just glue code around some good modules. Some important things like safe links were hacked together by me.
(if you're interested, https://qubyte.codes, but I need to post more often)