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How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare

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Re: How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare

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Post by klank »

nottorp wrote: post #202
anon7000 wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, Obsidian is just a markdown editor. You could keep an identical publishing setup and use any text editor on the planet :P But I honestly despise writing raw markdown in an IDE. If I'm writing (not coding), I need it to be somewhat visual, which means I want WYSIWYG -- and Obsidian is an excellent markdown editor, even if you don't use the other features. My reasons for not liking writing "raw" markdown: - Lon…

> If I'm writing (not coding), I need it to be somewhat visual, which means I want WYSIWYG You didn't grow up with WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS with reveal codes on, did you? :)

Holy cow! 10 year old me learned word processing first with wordperfect. I looked for reveal codes in other processors for years after that and was always disappointed when I couldn't find it.

Young me was like "how can you edit a document if you can't see the codes?!" Still to this day I wish I had it in word processors.

Re: How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare

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Post by begueradj »

Saris wrote: post #88
begueradj wrote: post #48

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Obsidian, Hugo, Github, Cloudflare ... none of those are owned by you.

Obsidian is just a markdown editor, so the files are portable. The context is that the content and methods to publish it are not someone elses.

You do not own it (unless if it's you who released it to run on a platform you don't own)

Re: How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare

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Post by tough »

killingtime74 wrote: post #183
wood_spirit wrote: post #180

I set up a friend’s prolific blog with a very similar approach many years ago using pelican and pushing to a git server vps where a tiny custom python wevserver serves whatever is in git. Only friend has struggled to get pelican and git etc set up on a new laptop. And tbh I am lost - and horrified - at the latest windows. Not keen on being tech support and working out why python command hangs etc. And my custom vps s…

Maybe your friend should pay someone (not you) for tech support. It shouldn't take that long

just use WSL to run python sighs

Re: How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare

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Post by superkuh »

quesera wrote: post #239
superkuh wrote: post #238

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I guess you're right. Humans make mistakes so we should just not have any control where we might make a mistake at all and host all our personal data at large corporations who definitely have our privacy as the #1 priority and never leak. And before you say, "I don't do that, false dichotomy." we're not talking about us, here, it seems. Since we both are obviously huge nerds capable of securing things (I have js disa…

I thought we were talking about blog posts. Host your personal data on your local machine. Encrypt it and sync to another physical location for backup. But serve your blog from somewhere else. If you want to self-host it at home, buy a cheap NUC (or RPi) and hang it off the guest network on your WiFi router. Or, minimally, a VM or a zone/jail/container. I don't like the idea of a compromised host sitting on my home L…

>but I'm talking about you! :)

I am confident in my digital security for my threat model. Physical security, less so. The only time my data has ever been taken was when the FBI broke into my apartment at 6am in 2010 and held me at gunpoint and stole every computer in my apartment. They never charged me with a crime, never even indicted me. It was all just the feds squashing political dissent back in the Occupy wallstreet days and I was one of hundreds on the mass warrant issued for that morning's cross-country raids meant to intimidate and destroy lives. As was the FBI's style, they stole all the bitcoin I had on those computers, which I discovered when they kindly returned them (in parts) 10+ years later in 2021.

I'd argue the real risk for me living in the USA is not from random hackers finding a unicorn nginx RCE (or me misconfiguring), but from the government. And they're going to come in the front door not through my computer.

Given the state of things I think this applies to far more people than just me. So start up those home static servers. It's a relatively low risk, all things considered. And free communication with other humans, not shaped by corporate policy and opinion shaping, might just mitigate the government problem a bit.

Re: How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare

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Post by Lord_Zero »

BeetleB wrote: post #175
pembrook wrote: post #28

Great 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.

A bit unfair to the OP, given that he actually does write posts on his blog.

Unfair in general. Building and hosting a blog is a cool learning experience and worth blogging about to remember and teach others.

Re: How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare

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Post by miragecraft »

It’s great that this works for you, I hope you write lots.

Everyone’s brain is wired differently, and for me Kirby CMS works best as I can blog anywhere and can run scripts server side. Throw it up on NearlyFreeSpeech.Net and I pay less than $5 a year for hosting.

I’ve read about SSGs suffer software (really dependency) rot when left alone for a few years. You’ll never need to worry about that with PHP.

Re: How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare

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Post by janandonly »

freetonik wrote: post #228
janandonly wrote: post #223

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Can I use this image on my blog? I will off course link to you site. It’s to illustrate a point about my blogspot blog haha… I’ve been looking to switch over to something else. But I’ve been actively blogging since 2006 and I haven’t found a good enough way and platform to switch over to.

Of course, go ahead! Please, share a link to your blog, I'm gonna add it to minifeed.net :) (I'll update my website soon and will make the licensing clearer.)

My sites/blogs are: https://www.janromme.com, https://www.seriousaboutech.com and https://independentlypoor.com.

This picture was used here:https://www.janromme.com/2025/04/are-there-any-good-blogging...

Thanks a lot. That graph is useful, and a nice shout-out is always good.

Re: How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare

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Post by nickjj »

nickjj wrote: post #163
pembrook wrote: post #28

Great 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.

I started with and used Jekyll for almost ~10 years and ~500 posts before switching to Hugo. I have a 7,000 word blog post on how and why I switched which I didn't publish yet because I wanted to wait 6+ months with Hugo to make sure I ironed out all of the kinks. I guess I'm the anti-case for this one! Maybe I should post this one next week. It's been quite stable.

Here's the post: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/converting-my-500-page-blog-f...
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