Doing stupid stuff with GitHub Actions

It's nice but it could be cleaner, by dropping the sidebar, and constraining the width of prose. See "Why is the text on your site so narrow? It wastes screen space." here: http://www.paulgraham.com/gfaq.html

Re: Doing stupid stuff with GitHub Actions

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Post by spalas » Sat, Jul 25, 2020, 8:46 PM UTC

jcun4128 wrote: post #2

nice site, it's clean

Thanks!

Most of the credit goes to Alex Shpak (https://github.com/alex-shpak/) who created the "Book" theme for hugo (https://themes.gohugo.io/hugo-book/).

Re: Doing stupid stuff with GitHub Actions

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Post by spalas » Sat, Jul 25, 2020, 8:53 PM UTC

TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #3

I rarely see a sense of humor on HN. It’s a nice surprise and I hope to see more of it. Nice job!

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

I figured if I was going to learn a new tool, I might as well have some fun along the way!

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Post by simonw » Sat, Jul 25, 2020, 8:57 PM UTC

I really enjoyed Jonty Wareing's hack recently where he built a static site generator inside a GitHub Action that works by doing the following:

1. Spin up a Python Flask web server on localhost

2. Run "wget --mirror" against it to crawl the site and save it as static files

3. Publish the resulting static files to GitHub Pages

The workflow is here. It's genius: https://github.com/pubstandards/pubstandards-london/blob/899...

Re: Doing stupid stuff with GitHub Actions

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Post by ViViDboarder » Sat, Jul 25, 2020, 9:02 PM UTC

jcun4128 wrote: post #2

nice site, it's clean

Also loaded very quickly for me. Static sites FTW!

Re: Doing stupid stuff with GitHub Actions

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Post by gjulianm » Sat, Jul 25, 2020, 9:05 PM UTC

simonw wrote: post #7

I really enjoyed Jonty Wareing's hack recently where he built a static site generator inside a GitHub Action that works by doing the following: 1. Spin up a Python Flask web server on localhost 2. Run "wget --mirror" against it to crawl the site and save it as static files 3. Publish the resulting static files to GitHub Pages The workflow is here. It's genius: https://github.com/pubstandards/pubstandards-london/blob/…

It's not often that I see things that are stupid but smart at the same time, so cool!

Re: Doing stupid stuff with GitHub Actions

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Post by spalas » Sat, Jul 25, 2020, 9:08 PM UTC

simonw wrote: post #7

I really enjoyed Jonty Wareing's hack recently where he built a static site generator inside a GitHub Action that works by doing the following: 1. Spin up a Python Flask web server on localhost 2. Run "wget --mirror" against it to crawl the site and save it as static files 3. Publish the resulting static files to GitHub Pages The workflow is here. It's genius: https://github.com/pubstandards/pubstandards-london/blob/…

Love it!

I have seen people doing fun things with GitHub Actions for the new GitHub profile readme feature as well.

This community chess game is one of my favorites https://github.com/timburgan/timburgan

It uses the creation GitHub issues on the repo as the input method/trgger which is a pretty clever hack.