The ideal tech stack for a personal developer blog in 2020

Post by tilolebo » Tue, May 26, 2020, 4:11 PM UTC

marvinblum wrote: post #115

karatestomp wrote: post #109

The other day I started an HTML document from scratch, in VSCode. I kinda blacked out and came to 5 seconds later, and thanks to autocomplete and muscle memory, the whole skeleton of a document was there. HTML and Head and title and body and all that. It was so fast & fluid. I'm ashamed to say I'd kinda forgotten how easy it is to just write fucking HTML . It's even got me reconsidering things like Markdown—I mean, f…

This! I wrote my personal website [1] a few days ago (after it was blank for years) and went for concrete css [2] and plain HTML together with some Go code to serve the files. I set up a server on Hetzner Cloud [3] and my site was up within minutes using Traefik to get a SSL certificate from Letsencrypt. All in all it took me about 2 hours. If you start to play around with a CMS it can take you days if not weeks. Jus…

Post by marvinblum » Tue, May 26, 2020, 4:15 PM UTC

dpbriggs wrote: post #136

marvinblum wrote: post #108

I recommended this on another HN post a few weeks ago: use Emvi [1] to write your blog articles and access them on your personal page on a server you control through the API to display them. You can store the HTML and attached files to serve it statically and update it from time to time. Should you decide to abandon Emvi you still have everything in place. I did this for a gaming community wiki (sort of, I don't stor…

Just wanted to say that I am impressed by the emvi landing page. Slick and high fps.

Post by runawaybottle » Tue, May 26, 2020, 4:28 PM UTC

hawkice wrote: post #7

As a non-React developer: forms, before React, were actually super simple. The author mentions they forgot how to do forms the normal way, but like, can you imagine how excited they'll be by the simplicity?

Post by colinmcd » Tue, May 26, 2020, 4:39 PM UTC

tristor wrote: post #139

Seems completely unnecessary and overly complex for anyone who doesn't love Javascript. I'm using Hugo + Git commit hooks to drive deployments. Easy enough, works just as well, didn't require reinventing the wheel. I embed rich content all the time.

Post by dpbriggs » Tue, May 26, 2020, 4:49 PM UTC

karlicoss wrote: post #144

dpbriggs wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wrote an article about that here: https://dpbriggs.ca/blog/making-a-blog-with-rust-and-orgmode The main changes since that article is I use systemd services to manage caddy / webserver instead of tmux sessions. The short of it is: rocket + tera + org-mode html export + some amount of parsing. There didn't exist high quality org-mode parsing crates when I made the blog. You can learn more about the org-mode parts fr…

Nice, using similar workflow for my blog, emacs export + some post-processing [0]. Even with high quality parsing libraries, when you dip into the most advanced features of org-mode (like literate programming via babel), you end up needing emacs anyway. And it's much more pleasant to tweak existing export code, than figuring out how to reimplement it from scratch. [0] https://github.com/karlicoss/beepb00p/blob/master…

    (defun make-blogging-mode ()
      (interactive)
      (toggle-word-wrap)
      (toggle-truncate-lines)
      (flycheck-mode)
      (flycheck-vale-toggle-enabled)
      (add-hook 'after-save-hook 'org-mode-export-hook)
      )

    # -*- find-file-hook: make-blogging-mode -*-