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Re: Ask HN: How to build a light weight personal blog?

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Post by asdf_snar » Thu, Jan 06, 2022, 1:58 PM UTC

I just wanted to give an A+ for Hugo's quickstart. This HN post was coincidentally exactly what I had been wondering about. From the wealth of replies, I narrowed down my choices to Jekyll and Hugo. Both require a little bit of work to render LaTeX, but Hugo seemed more tailored to newbies like myself.

I finally got around to trying it and used Hugo's quick-start guide: https://gohugo.io/getting-started/quick-start/. I've never been able to breeze through a quick-start so seamlessly. Everything worked as advertised and with no prior knowledge I was able to see a post on my local machine in I've yet to add LaTeX but the quickstart makes me very optimistic. Thanks again to the creators of Hugo for such a friendly quick-start.

Re: Ask HN: How to build a light weight personal blog?

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Post by southerntofu » Fri, Jan 07, 2022, 12:38 PM UTC

MichaelBurge wrote: post #81

southerntofu wrote: post #53

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Another con: you depend on Microsoft's good will to serve your blog, as they own Github. That kind of workflow is amazing but you should probably consider going with a non-profit software forge that runs on donations and will protect (y)our interests (like codeberg.org for example).

You don't depend on Microsoft: Static sites can be moved easily to another provider if anything bad happens - there is no "vendor lock-in".

I thought Github Pages only worked with *.github.io but it appears you're correct and we can now own domains hosted by Github. So my original argument only stands for people using Github's domain instead of their own. Thanks for correction!

Re: Ask HN: How to build a light weight personal blog?

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Post by southerntofu » Fri, Jan 07, 2022, 12:41 PM UTC

rcarmo wrote: post #110

southerntofu wrote: post #109

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Is Secure Boot ancient history? TPM 2.0 requirement? The quasi-requirement of a Microsoft account to use Windows? Ubiquitous telemetry that's impossible to disable? Cortana that cannot be removed and employs precarious workers without a confidentiality contract to transcribe everything people say and have no idea Cortana is recording? Blocking standards-compliant mail servers silently? Microsoft is still a strong for…

As a Mac user working at Microsoft on Linux workloads, I definitely do not identify with that viewpoint.

Do you think the examples i presented are bullshit or do you not think they are ethical problems? Just because Microsoft embraces people working on different operating systems doesn't mean they suddenly started to respect the human rights of their users.

Re: Ask HN: How to build a light weight personal blog?

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Post by rcarmo » Fri, Jan 07, 2022, 2:24 PM UTC

southerntofu wrote: post #113

rcarmo wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a Mac user working at Microsoft on Linux workloads, I definitely do not identify with that viewpoint.

Do you think the examples i presented are bullshit or do you not think they are ethical problems? Just because Microsoft embraces people working on different operating systems doesn't mean they suddenly started to respect the human rights of their users.

I would favor the first part of your sentence. I watched a lot of that happen before joining and understand how it happened, and I think you're inflating the matter.

Re: Ask HN: How to build a light weight personal blog?

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Post by acmdas » Sun, Jan 09, 2022, 6:06 PM UTC

krapp wrote: post #34

yunohn wrote: post #27

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> just manually I would find this tedious for any number of comments. Is there a better way?

Don't host comments. The day when comments tended to have any value on the web passed ages ago. No one blogs anymore, and no one reads blogs anymore, so most of the traffic you get is just going to be bots or cancerous trolls anyway - if you're lucky enough to get any actual human readers at all in the latter case. Or use a hosted service like Disqus or an alternative if you want comments, but the better solution is…

Can't help thinking of the Yogi Berra quote (whether he said it or not), "Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded."

Seems like there are a lot of folks interested in blogging support, considering that nobody reads blogs anymore.