Does it run on an RPi now? :)
Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo
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Re: Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo
#132If you already write your posts in Markdown, it makes sense for sure. About a year ago I converted my 500+ post Jekyll blog to Hugo, overall it's been a net win but boy do I find myself looking up syntax in the docs a lot. Thankfully not so much nowadays but figuring out the templating syntax was rough at the time. Jeff, you don't have to set draft to false. You can separate your drafts into a different directory and…
> About a year ago I converted my 500+ post Jekyll blog to Hugo
Why? I'm using Jekyll and been happy with it. What am I missing?
Re: Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo
#133I did a migration to markdown, too, but I decided to backport my previous nodejs code to Go, as I wanted the editor part to be still available as a standalone binary. This Christmas, I redesigned my website [1] into modular "middlewares" with the idea that each middleware has its own assets and embed.FS included, so that I can e.g. use the editor to write markdown files with a dynamic backend for publishing and rende…
You know what's better than a standalone binary? Zero binaries.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29384788>
Re: Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo
#134What'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.
I don't know if Pelican is as popular nowadays or not...but i've used it for a few years now...and it does the trick quite nicely! I'd highly recommend it!
I think the only downside is that the project site's documentation feels like its really well done...up to a point...Like they were on a great roll documenting stuff really well, and then stopped at like ~90% completion. By this i mean that the high level stuff is well documented...but little details are missing for the last 10%...Then again, it could be that because i only use python a little here or there, that maybe that's why some things "seem" like they're missing a few details. By the way, if any project maintainers are out there, please do not take offense at my opinion here, as I value very much what the project maintainers do (i mean, i still use Pelican)!
Other than my feelings towards the documentation, if you don't need to customize too much stuff w/Pelican, then its a really great SSG.
Re: Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo
#135I 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…
I've been burned by this a few times and now I have the Hugo binary in source control. I had to dig through the releases a little bit to find the version that didn't break everything.
Re: Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo
#136What'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.
Do you snapshot everything into a venv to insulate from upstream changes?
Re: Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo
#137A 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 started blogging with emacs and an org-based solution, and it was horrid.
I had a vision of what I wanted the site to look like, but the org exporter had a default style it wanted. I spent more time ripping out all the cruft that the default org-html exporter insisted on adding than it would have taken to just write a new blog engine from scratch and I wish I had.
There's a way to set a custom export template, but I couldn't figure it out from the docs. I found and still do find the emacs/org docs to be poorly written for someone who doesn't already understand the emacs internals, and I wasn't willing to spend the time to become an emacs internals expert just to write a blog.
So I lived with a half-baked org->pandoc->html solution for a while but now I'm on Jekyll and much happier with my blogging experience.
Re: Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo
#138If you already write your posts in Markdown, it makes sense for sure. About a year ago I converted my 500+ post Jekyll blog to Hugo, overall it's been a net win but boy do I find myself looking up syntax in the docs a lot. Thankfully not so much nowadays but figuring out the templating syntax was rough at the time. Jeff, you don't have to set draft to false. You can separate your drafts into a different directory and…
> About a year ago I converted my 500+ post Jekyll blog to Hugo Why? I'm using Jekyll and been happy with it. What am I missing?
The blog post linked in my previous comment covers the why and everything else.
Re: Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo
#139A long while ago I wrote a very simple static site generator for personal site, mainly just to play around with using GitHub/Cloudflare pages to host my personal site. Then a couple of months ago I started comparing the big SSG tools after wanting something a bit less held together with duct tape... after a lot of experimenting I settled on 11ty at the time, but I really don't enjoy writing Liquid templates, and writ…
I moved my startup’s marketing site and blog from NextJS to Astro, and I’m happy with it. It’s in that middle ground—focused on primarily static sites but with the ability to still write bits of backend logic as needed.
I found it hard to get next to reliably treat static content as actually static (and thus cacheable), and it felt like a huge bundle of complexity for such a simple use case.
Re: Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo
#140I've been using Hugo for the past 3 years. Biggest lesson I learned is to just fork the theme you're using and don't use submodules. There's no rush in keeping your theme up to date. Also you have complete control over the theme when its forked. I've only had stuff break on occasion when updating to a newer version of Hugo, had to change a couple things with the theme which did not take too long to fix. Curious to se…
This. A theme is individual to the site regardless... I almost migrated my Drupal theme over directly but gave up realizing I had so many views-view-view-field-data-field-body-formatted style classes lol.
Some guides say to add submodules. I favor direct inclusion and just overriding layouts as you see fit.