Ask HN: What is setup for your static blog generator?

I have tried Jekyll, Hexo and few other static blog generator but not happy with theme. I want to build something in which I have total control. Like I have few scss/css files, few markup files and some other templates for design and based on them I can create a complete html files so that I can publish them on GitHub.

Many of you might have some scripts that generate your blog posts from some setup. If it is possible then can you share your setup configuration?

I am looking for following things with setup:

* I should have backup of my all posts if I want to move other other configuration. * I can easily tweak css or html. * I can generate a complete html blog that can be publish over GitHub or any other places.

I don't know about others, but at least Jekyll has themes which you can modify in whatever way you want. See a random theme at https://github.com/chrisbobbe/jekyll-theme-prologue?files=1

I wrote one a while back. It uses git, webhook to auto publish blog posts.

Here's the git repo https://github.com/snehesht/blog

This will probably forever be too half-baked to "release", but I wrote my own: https://github.com/jakelazaroff/adjective

It's written in Node and features multithreading and incremental builds for fast development.

I host on Netlify, which has continuous integration built in, so it builds and deploys the site every time I push to GitLab.

Github pages + Bash + Python script. I have a very simple page layout for posts. A drafts directory maintains ASCIIDoc files for posts I'm writing.

After writing I run `post.sh` with the file as the argument. It invokes a Python script which generates the HTML and puts it in a directory for published posts sorted by date/month/year (e.g. published/2018/01/29). The Bash script generates a directory/link listing and an index page for the blog roll, followed by a "git push".