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Isn't this what raw html was designed for? What is easier than following simple conventions and FTP'ing some files? What is it that people are trying to automate?
I am the "weird dude who writes raw HTML" LOL. I had a self-hosted WordPress blog from 2006-2010, but security updates become a burden, especially since I had to modify the WP source code a little to do exactly what I wanted with the RSS feeds. After a few years of not blogging at all, I decided to use the simplest possible "system", which is writing blog posts in raw HTML in a text editor, as well as writing the RSS…
Wait... You don't use an IDE taking up 2GB of RAM to write posts in "plain text" using a random flavor of Markdown, with custom extensions only supported by a single blog generator, and then use the command line to call 250MB worth of Node libraries which creates an AST from the barely parsable text file, all to then generate a basic static HTML file? What's wrong with you?
In all seriousness I love me some JetBrains's, but boy do they eat RAM like there's no tomorrow.
Still a paying and satisfied customer.
I am the "weird dude who writes raw HTML" LOL. I had a self-hosted WordPress blog from 2006-2010, but security updates become a burden, especially since I had to modify the WP source code a little to do exactly what I wanted with the RSS feeds. After a few years of not blogging at all, I decided to use the simplest possible "system", which is writing blog posts in raw HTML in a text editor, as well as writing the RSS…
Oh my goodness, I just looked through your submission history to find your website, clicked through to a random page, and I was blown away by how fast the page loaded. I love it.
Imagine how pleasant browsing the internet would be if most sites were like this?
I’m starting to think tech in general is 1% signal and 99% noise…
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I was pleasantly surprised to learn writing raw html is not difficult, at all. I am not doing Rocket Science, though. As others say, static site generators introduce a layer of abstraction. I like writing in markdown too, but if I really cared to, I could write my own scripts to translate. However, I found that html does not introduce undue overhead. I am sure I could churn out content more quickly if I were writing…
I always wondered why browsers do not parse and understand markdown on their own, it would be so easy for thrm to implement it.
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Well, true, but: 1. You might want to resize image if it's a photo 2. You might prefer a CMS to a plain code editor and then you need to use its uploader (both Forestry and NetlifyCMS aren't very seamless) 3. Try doing that on mobile And don't get me wrong, I use Hugo as well.
Netlify CMS is dead[1] after the core dev left the company, Forestry is also officially dead as of April this year. Netlify CMS got forked into StaticCMS and the team behind Forestry have created TinaCMS. After experimenting with both last week, I recommend the latter if you're building a blog with Astro and want a Git based CMS. [1] https://answers.netlify.com/t/is-this-project-dead/70988
Running your own blog in 2023 is still needlessly complicated, especially if you have any kind of taste. Social apps and networks are obviously the easiest options, but they’re geared toward vastly different things, and I just don’t trust their longevity. There are many options out there, ranging from WordPress and Ghost to static blogs to managed online platforms and Micro.blog. In fact, none of the options out ther…
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Always worth considering your national domain if it’s easy to register. I use .ca because really why wouldn’t I?
CIRA's privacy policy is one of the reasons why I've stayed with .ca for my digital presence: > The registrant name and administrative and technical contact information of non-individual registrants, such as corporations, is displayed by default. The registrant name and administrative and technical contact information of individuals, such as Canadian citizens or permanent residents is not displayed in WHOIS per the C…
For the combination of Hugo and GitHub Pages, images are pretty effortless as well. For example, for a post with a path of `content/posts/post-title.md`: 1. Add the image at `content/posts/post-title/image-name.png` 2. Add markdown that references it, like `` 3. Build and push to main, and then the image is available in minutes at ` /posts/post-title/image-name.png" rel="nofollow">https://…
Hugo and Cloudflare Pages is basically free, but you need to find somewhere to host your search.
From its repo: "Pagefind runs after any static site generator and automatically indexes the built static files. Pagefind then outputs a static search bundle to your website, and exposes a JavaScript search API that can be used anywhere on your site."
Pagefind is cool!
If you want to focus on tweaking the site to your heart's content, go right ahead, but the number #1 component to a blog is...writing.
Focus on that and stop worrying about the rest of the details.
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Mine’s similar but with fewer steps. - My blog lives in a Git repo I host on my own Gitea server. - I run Working Copy on my iPad to push to/pull from the repo. - I use iA Writer to edit files in Working Copy. - Every 5 minutes, a script on my webserver runs `git pull`. If anything changed, it runs `hugo build`, then rsyncs the output to the webroot for my domain. What I see in iA Writer is my blog’s contents. When I…
I have similar with even fewer steps! Edit directly in working copy Blog repo is on GitHub When I push to the main repo Cloudflare Pages does hugo build