I have been using this way of blogging for years now and it works perfectly.
I didn't know about Cloudflare pages, thanks for sharing!
I use Jekyll, Github pages and Cloudflare. I use hackmd for editing but Obsidian will work as well.
How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare
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#22Is the domain name free too?
Not the OP but I own some ab.xy type of domain names and use one of them as my personal gTLD.
It's like having infinite "free" domains (even with the small fee for the base domain.)
But the most important part is the fun of just having an entire namespace at your disposal to create whatever "domain name" in seconds.
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#23I profoundly do not understand why one needs Hugo or Jekyll or whatever other generator. Why not write HTML in the first place? It's so absurdly easy and it makes you not depend on external infrastructure at all.
I tried some generators but it was so much more complicated than writing a style sheet and some pages. Maybe for some more complex use-case, okay, I get it, but the author's blog is so minimal and simple.
edit: today I learned people have very strong opinions about static site generators. Good valid reasons, y'all. Maybe my use case really is too simplistic!
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#24VSCode has been good enough for markdown blogging for me. Hugo compiles pages on save so its quick to iterate. The markdown preview plugin brings same experience to misc markdown editing. No new editors to learn and one gets instant access to copilot etc.
Why would you need copilot for blogging? Isn't the whole appeal of a blog that it's something you , a human created?
Copilot is helpful for handing formatting and repetitive structural stuff. It doesn't need to actually create the content to be useful.
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#25Is the domain name free too?
Not the OP but I own some ab.xy type of domain names and use one of them as my personal gTLD. It's like having infinite "free" domains (even with the small fee for the base domain.) But the most important part is the fun of just having an entire namespace at your disposal to create whatever "domain name" in seconds.
Do you mean you can easily spin up foo.ab.xy, bar.ab.xy and baz.ab.xy?
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#26Obsidian is honestly such a joy to write in - I use it for my blog as well:
On my end I ended up building an entire custom thing that bastardizes SvelteKit to produce a static website that I then upload to GitHub Pages, but I think over-engineering a personal website is always good fun - and hey, I can tweak lots of silly aspects like how my post names get turned into /nice-and-readable-urls.
Out of curiosity, what's the advantage of using Cloudflare Pages over GitHub Pages? Both seem to require a GitHub repository.
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#27My blog workflow and deployment are so simple they don't even deserve a blog post;)
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#28Great stuff, looking forward to your next blog post in 1 year: “How I rebuilt my blog on…”
A fun hobby of mine is Googling “how I built this blog with [next.js/Gatsby/etc etc]” and going to page 10 of the Google results.
It’s just hundreds of developer blogs with no blog posts other than the ones announcing how the blog was built.
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#29Great stuff, looking forward to your next blog post in 1 year: “How I rebuilt my blog on…” A fun hobby of mine is Googling “how I built this blog with [next.js/Gatsby/etc etc]” and going to page 10 of the Google results. It’s just hundreds of developer blogs with no blog posts other than the ones announcing how the blog was built.
Haha, been there. But this setup’s actually working really well for me. It’s not chasing the "hot new thing," it’s going back to stuff that’s proven and solid.
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#30I profoundly do not understand why one needs Hugo or Jekyll or whatever other generator. Why not write HTML in the first place? It's so absurdly easy and it makes you not depend on external infrastructure at all. I tried some generators but it was so much more complicated than writing a style sheet and some pages. Maybe for some more complex use-case, okay, I get it, but the author's blog is so minimal and simple. ed…
That's a very technical perspective. If you're a note taker, you ALREADY write in a format that is comfortable for you. And like the vast majority of people who enjoy putting proverbial pen to paper, you aren't thinking about bloody html tags.
The goal of generators is to reduce the friction of taking your notes/articles/etc. and wrapping them in thematically consistent HTML/CSS for your site. Once you've got it tuned/setup for your blog, they're pretty easy to use.
Obviously in your use-case where you find static site generators more complicated, then you can stick with raw html.