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Re: Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo

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Post by dijit »

begueradj wrote: post #44
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…

The posts looks pretty smooth to read. You list all the links to posts on the landing page: what if you have 1000, 2000 posts ? Have you thought of paginating them ?

Raises an interesting point.

How large does the canvas need to get before pagination makes sense?

Modern websites are enormous in terms of how much needs to be loaded into memory- sure, not all of it is part of the rendered document, but is there a limit to the canvas size?

I'm thinking you could probably get 100,000+ entries and still be able to use CTRL+F on the site in a responsive way since even at 100,000+ entries you're still only about 10% of Facebooks "wall" application page. (Without additional "infinite scroll" entries)

Re: Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo

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Post by BeetleB »

kmfrk wrote: post #68

What's the temperature on Pelican [ https://getpelican.com ] these days? Best Python SSG is mostly down to Hugo and Pelican as far as I can tell. I've always loved SSGs, but ActivityPub integration is also looking very attractive absent wider adoption of RSS.

Happy Pelican user. If you know Python, it's the way to go.

Re: Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo

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Post by coder543 »

marcosscriven wrote: post #70
coder543 wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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> You’re talking to me like a total idiot, having assumed I know nothing about this.

Sorry I tried to help? If that's the response I get for helping, good luck...

> All I meant was a way to avoid storing images in git, the rest is quite simple.

There is no good way to do that, and no way that I would recommend. Git is the correct solution, if that is where you are storing the markdown. No fancy git tools are required.

Re: Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo

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Post by seanwilson »

geerlingguy wrote: post #49
seanwilson wrote: post #40

I really like Hugo as well. I've found it significantly faster than Jekyll which makes iterating much more pleasant and it's a single binary to download/run vs having to deal with Ruby and its package manager. I'm amazed there still isn't a decent free simple to host CMS solution with live page previews, a basic page builder, and simple hosting yet though. Is there one? There's https://demo.decapcms.org/ (previously…

I'll have to get those tag links fixed. That's especially odd as I think those links were the defaults from the Archie theme I based my site on!

> That's especially odd as I think those links were the defaults from the Archie theme

Internal redirects are really easy to miss without checking with a tool because browsers aren't noisy about it. Lots of sites have unnecessary redirects from URLs that use http:// instead of https://, www vs no-www, and missing/extra trailing slashes, where with some redirect configs you can get a chain of 2 or 3 redirects before you get to the destination page.

Re: Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo

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Post by jtbayly »

geerlingguy wrote: post #61
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.

But how in the world will you shove a decent search into a static site?

I really want to know because there is a Drupal 7 site that I need to migrate to something but I need good search on it (I’m using solr now).

Edit: I should have specified that I need more functionality than just word searching. I need filtering (ie faceted search) too. I’ve used a SSG that uses a JavaScript index and appreciate it, but that’s not going to cut it for this project.

Re: Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo

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Post by sejje »

ZoomZoomZoom wrote: post #17
dijit wrote: post #3

I made the jump to Hugo too (from a managed service: svbtle) a long time ago, but I'll be really honest... I regret it. I decided to use an off-the-shelf theme, but it didn't quite meet the needs and I forked it; as it so happens Hugo breaks userland relatively often and a complex theme like the one I have requires a lot of maintenance. Like.. a lot . Now I can't really justify the time investment of fixing it so I j…

> In theory I could use an old version of Hugo, but I have no idea when it broke, so how far do I go back? Had the same problem. Binary search is the latest trick people use. For SSG there's not much point in upgrading if everything works, and planned migration beats the churn in this case. You can just print a Hugo version in a HTML comment to track it in git.

There's a "git bisect" command waiting to get in the game

Re: Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo

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Post by nunez »

Welcome to the dark side, Jeff! I migrated to Hugo from WordPress in 2019: https://blog.carlosnunez.me/post/neurons-are-firing-again/

I built some automation that helps me test and deploy changes to S3 as well: https://github.com/carlosonunez/https-hugo-bloggen. It's clunky but works for me! Feel free to fork/PR if you're interested, of course.

It was a great move; I couldn't be happier. Running my blog is basically free (because nobody reads it, lol, but also because it's served by S3 and CloudFront and the # of monthly requests is still within Free Tier).

At the time, some folks were questioning why I built this instead of moving to Netlify. I wanted control over how my sites were deployed and didn't want to pay some provider for convenience I knew I could build myself. Netlify got AI-pilled some time ago, which makes me feel vindicated in my position.

Re: Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo

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Post by [deleted] »

brabel wrote: post #56
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 did the same thing, but implemented my site generator in Go. My site has grown by a lot over the years, but I can still build it from scratch (from MD files, HTML snippets and static files) in less than one second! Also have a RSS feed generator and it can highlight code in most programming languages, which is important to me as I write posts on many languages. I did try Hugo before I went on to implement my own, a…

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Re: Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo

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Post by seanwilson »

jtbayly wrote: post #75
geerlingguy wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

But how in the world will you shove a decent search into a static site? I really want to know because there is a Drupal 7 site that I need to migrate to something but I need good search on it (I’m using solr now). Edit: I should have specified that I need more functionality than just word searching. I need filtering (ie faceted search) too. I’ve used a SSG that uses a JavaScript index and appreciate it, but that’s no…

See https://gohugo.io/tools/search/. Not sure how well they scale to thousands of posts, but they work by statically generating multiple static search index files at build time that are queried via client JavaScript when hosted. The search UX is actually really good because they tend to respond instantly as you type your query and allow complex queries.

Re: Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo

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Post by nunez »

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…

But what about Disqus? Or that one that renders comments from GitHub Issues?
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