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Re: Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo

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Post by geerlingguy »

1dom wrote: post #52

I think this is silly, and it's a hill I'm willing to die on. I wrote this in a comment yesterday, and Jeff has fully confirmed/vindicated this in his post: SSGs are good for static sites with no interactivity or feedback. If you want interactivity or feedback, someone (you or a 3rd party service provider) is going to have to run a server. If you're running a server anyway, it seems trivial to serve content dynamical…

I'm already self hosting my own cookieless analytics, and before, I hosted Drupal (LEMP stack) and Apache Solr on separate servers. I'm used to self-hosting, and any comment solution I use will be self-hosted as well (see: https://github.com/geerlingguy/jeffgeerling-com/issues/167)

The code surface with SSG + 1 or 2 small self-hosted OSS tools is much, much smaller than it ever was running Drupal or another CMS.

Re: Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo

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Post by senko »

susam wrote: post #34

A few years ago, I decided to migrate my personal website to a Common Lisp (CL) based static site generator that I wrote myself. In hindsight, it is one of the best decisions I have made for my website. It started out at around 850 lines of code and has gradually grown to roughly 1500 lines. It handles statically rendering blog posts, arbitrary pages, a guestbook, comment pages, tag listings, per tag RSS feeds, a con…

> I decided to migrate my website to a Common Lisp based static site generator that I wrote myself.

Many programmers' first impulse when they start[0] to blog is to write their own blog engine. Props to you for not falling into that particular rabbit hole and actually using - as opposed to just tinkering on - that engine.

[0] you said you migrated it, implying you already had the habit of blogging, but still,

Re: Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo

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Post by susam »

1dom wrote: post #52

I think this is silly, and it's a hill I'm willing to die on. I wrote this in a comment yesterday, and Jeff has fully confirmed/vindicated this in his post: SSGs are good for static sites with no interactivity or feedback. If you want interactivity or feedback, someone (you or a 3rd party service provider) is going to have to run a server. If you're running a server anyway, it seems trivial to serve content dynamical…

> SSGs are good for static sites with no interactivity or feedback. If you want interactivity or feedback, someone (you or a 3rd party service provider) is going to have to run a server.

For my website, I do both. Static HTML pages are generated with a static site generator. Comments are accepted using a server-side program I have written using Common Lisp and Hunchentoot.

Re: Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo

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Post by zie1ony »

susam wrote: post #34

A few years ago, I decided to migrate my personal website to a Common Lisp (CL) based static site generator that I wrote myself. In hindsight, it is one of the best decisions I have made for my website. It started out at around 850 lines of code and has gradually grown to roughly 1500 lines. It handles statically rendering blog posts, arbitrary pages, a guestbook, comment pages, tag listings, per tag RSS feeds, a con…

How do you handle comments in a "static blog"?

Re: Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo

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Post by IMSAI8080 »

Pacers31Colts18 wrote: post #59

I ran Hugo when I launched my blog last year. I made 18 total posts. Probably 3/4 of those had issues when trying to publish due to issues with Hugo. Found it so frustrating.

I recently moved off Hugo as well to a DIY Python static site generator for my own blog. The trouble I had was I found it frustrating to have to learn how to do something the Hugo way when I knew I could quickly code it in a language I was already familiar with.

Re: Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo

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Post by susam »

Tomte wrote: post #36
susam wrote: post #34

A few years ago, I decided to migrate my personal website to a Common Lisp (CL) based static site generator that I wrote myself. In hindsight, it is one of the best decisions I have made for my website. It started out at around 850 lines of code and has gradually grown to roughly 1500 lines. It handles statically rendering blog posts, arbitrary pages, a guestbook, comment pages, tag listings, per tag RSS feeds, a con…

Your wife’s Python version is quite impressive. It wouldn’t have occurred to me to do the simple thing and just do some string-replacement targeted at a narrow use-case instead of using a complicated templating engine.

> Your wife’s Python version is quite impressive.

Thank you. That was, in fact, the inspiration behind writing my own in CL.

Re: Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo

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Post by surajrmal »

supermatt wrote: post #11
hesyiah wrote: post #8

Instead of committing the binary, I highly recommend using a .tool-versions file (if you use asdf or mise) or a Dockerfile with a pinned version.

What is the downside to committing the binary? Immunity to supply chain attacks and a faster build time?

The best of both worlds is hosting the binary independently of git in some cloud storage and just have a script that fetches it (and set it in .gitignore). git itself doesn't like binaries very much and it will bloat your git clone speed/size if you update the binary ad it will effectively store all versions.

Re: Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo

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Post by dangus »

1dom wrote: post #52

I think this is silly, and it's a hill I'm willing to die on. I wrote this in a comment yesterday, and Jeff has fully confirmed/vindicated this in his post: SSGs are good for static sites with no interactivity or feedback. If you want interactivity or feedback, someone (you or a 3rd party service provider) is going to have to run a server. If you're running a server anyway, it seems trivial to serve content dynamical…

Shoehorn basic interactivity like comments?

https://gohugo.io/content-management/comments/

This includes a giant list of open source commenting systems.

I really don’t understand why people commonly say static site generators are a good candidate for building your own when there are a good selection of popular, stable options.

The only thing I don’t like about Hugo is the experience of using other people’s themes.

Re: Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo

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Post by marcosscriven »

coder543 wrote: post #57
marcosscriven wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m talking about integrating with GitHub. Publishing to Cloudflare for instance is fine, but where do you put the images between drafting and publishing? Or do you just check in images to GitHub and call it a day?

I wasn't suggesting publishing to Cloudflare, just that if you're concerned about the complexity of the workflow of getting images into the CDN, simply fronting whatever host you're using with a CDN of some kind (which could be Cloudflare) will solve that. Usually you just store the images in the same git repo as the markdown. How you initially host the static site once generated is up to you. The problem with storin…

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