If I have just one piece of feedback here it would be: body { padding: 10px; } Changing nothing else but this would make the site 10x better. Even a Terminal window has 5+px of padding.
Good point! Done!
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#12The real problem with any SSG is where to host and edit Markdown files and images for flexible spur of the moment content creation. I've built my own Wordpress-export-to-static solution to use the native iOS App as a workaround but it feels somewhat clunky — Same with having to run a headless CMS for this in the background; Surprisingly with all the gazillion of MD editors, no one has ever built one with live editing files in, say, S3 + allowing to upload assets.
And no, I don't consider content composition in a terminal window to be an inspiring environment because I'm a sucker for aesthetic apps.
Addendum: Mobile is just an added bonus. Best solution for me would be iA Writer as an editor, native image upload to a bucket like S3 and Apple allowing me to tap into these iCloud hosted .md files via an API. Then use a simple script to put the pieces together and move the stuff to Netlify or wherever.
Re: Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now
#13Consider using the regular Jekyll at https://jekyllrb.com/ (the Jekyll Now fork is no longer maintained)
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#14The real problem with any SSG is where to host and edit Markdown files and images for flexible spur of the moment content creation. I've built my own Wordpress-export-to-static solution to use the native iOS App as a workaround but it feels somewhat clunky — Same with having to run a headless CMS for this in the background; Surprisingly with all the gazillion of MD editors, no one has ever built one with live editing…
Good point. However, there is so much innovation in this space right now so I’m pretty sure that something like what you described will emerge.
Re: Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now
#15Consider using the regular Jekyll at https://jekyllrb.com/ (the Jekyll Now fork is no longer maintained)
I will! I am going to add a note to the post letting people know. Maybe we can create a similar functionality that Jekyll Now had of forking the repo and having a github page right away.
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#16Jekyll Now seems great, but there has been no github activity since 2018. Are there more actively maintained alternatives?
Both Hugo and mkdocs appear to receive more updates than Jekyll these days. I was in the same situation as the author and decided for mkdocs, because it features better syntax highlighting and customization than hugo. I find it also better to read for long documentation-like posts (have a look du.nkel.dev). There are less themes available compared to Hugo, but those that exist feel more powerful and complete.
Yeah - I’m still on Jekyll because of built in GitHub pages support, but if I was starting today I’d probably use Hugo.
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#17The real problem with any SSG is where to host and edit Markdown files and images for flexible spur of the moment content creation. I've built my own Wordpress-export-to-static solution to use the native iOS App as a workaround but it feels somewhat clunky — Same with having to run a headless CMS for this in the background; Surprisingly with all the gazillion of MD editors, no one has ever built one with live editing…
Personally I write to myself on telegram, then take it from there once I'm on a computer. Doing detail editing on a phone is painful anyway.
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#18txt file + org mode export - simple & easy to edit
Re: Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now
#19The real problem with any SSG is where to host and edit Markdown files and images for flexible spur of the moment content creation. I've built my own Wordpress-export-to-static solution to use the native iOS App as a workaround but it feels somewhat clunky — Same with having to run a headless CMS for this in the background; Surprisingly with all the gazillion of MD editors, no one has ever built one with live editing…
Good point. However, there is so much innovation in this space right now so I’m pretty sure that something like what you described will emerge.
The combination of Typora (https://typora.io/) for writing markdown + `mkdocs serve` or `hugo serve` is pretty neat. Set up a gitlab-ci.yml that builds and pushes the final site to your hosted destination, that's it.
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#20The real problem with any SSG is where to host and edit Markdown files and images for flexible spur of the moment content creation. I've built my own Wordpress-export-to-static solution to use the native iOS App as a workaround but it feels somewhat clunky — Same with having to run a headless CMS for this in the background; Surprisingly with all the gazillion of MD editors, no one has ever built one with live editing…
Personally I write to myself on telegram, then take it from there once I'm on a computer. Doing detail editing on a phone is painful anyway.
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