>Content in mataroa blogs is unfiltered and unmonitored. Users are free to publish any combination of words and pixels. However, content of animosity or disparagement of an individual or a group on account of a group characteristic such as race, colour, national origin, sex, disability, religion, or sexual orientation will be taken down immediately. >If one notices something along those lines in a mataroa blog please…
Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists
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#142One nice thing I recognized is that the generated RSS feed contains full html text. I wish more blogging platforms are like this; save a lot of effort for feed readers. I'd also recommend to add open graph meta for the blog posts. Presumably people will want to share the posts somewhere; a nice set of open graph metas goes a long way.
> Presumably people will want to share the posts somewhere; a nice set of open graph metas goes a long way. Genuine question - what does this enable? I assume the big guys love the additional tagging for engaging similar content, but what else is there?
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#145The truly naked blogging setup would be: - a git repo containing a Hugo (or similar) SSG site. – push this git repo to a couple of free private repo hosting services (GitHub, GitLab, GCP CloudCode, AWS CodeCommit etc) – and optionally use their free CI integration to generate the static site (or do it locally on your laptop). - and push to a free cloud storage (AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle etc all give storage in their fr…
I don’t enjoy the process of having to build the site and push the built site to a service like github. It adds a certain kind of friction to the process of “saving” my work that just isn’t life-giving for me.
Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists
#146The truly naked blogging setup would be: - a git repo containing a Hugo (or similar) SSG site. – push this git repo to a couple of free private repo hosting services (GitHub, GitLab, GCP CloudCode, AWS CodeCommit etc) – and optionally use their free CI integration to generate the static site (or do it locally on your laptop). - and push to a free cloud storage (AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle etc all give storage in their fr…
I feel like Hugo / Jekyll (or equivalent) + GitHub Pages (or equivalent) is much much easier to set up. Is the resiliency really needed for your personal blog? Github Pages (which I use for my blog [0]) is pretty good at uptime afaik. [0]: https://param.codes
Nice theme by the way. :)
Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists
#147The truly naked blogging setup would be: - a git repo containing a Hugo (or similar) SSG site. – push this git repo to a couple of free private repo hosting services (GitHub, GitLab, GCP CloudCode, AWS CodeCommit etc) – and optionally use their free CI integration to generate the static site (or do it locally on your laptop). - and push to a free cloud storage (AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle etc all give storage in their fr…
If you want even more raw, why use git? Do you need version control for a blog? Just use S3 as a file system and serve directly from there. Can still use cloudflare if you want. If you want a templating system, it wouldn’t be hard to run a script that deterministically takes all templates in folder X and compiles them into folder Y.
# Markdown goes here
* etc.
Where magic.js converts MD to HTML, adds CSS/Templating, and somehow if it can get a list of files from the server can produce a list of posts.Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists
#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe today, but I personally stopped providing full text in the feeds of my now defunct and free from advertising blog, because my content was directly vacuumed and inserted into a spammy full of advertising website. This was around 2005 for what I can remember. Time is flying...
Unethical people is going to do whatever they can. Life is much more enjoyable if you just ignore them and whatever shit they are going to do with the content you willingly shared with the world for free.
That sentence has widely different endings for different people.
Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists
#149One nice thing I recognized is that the generated RSS feed contains full html text. I wish more blogging platforms are like this; save a lot of effort for feed readers. I'd also recommend to add open graph meta for the blog posts. Presumably people will want to share the posts somewhere; a nice set of open graph metas goes a long way.
> Presumably people will want to share the posts somewhere; a nice set of open graph metas goes a long way. Genuine question - what does this enable? I assume the big guys love the additional tagging for engaging similar content, but what else is there?
Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists
#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe today, but I personally stopped providing full text in the feeds of my now defunct and free from advertising blog, because my content was directly vacuumed and inserted into a spammy full of advertising website. This was around 2005 for what I can remember. Time is flying...
> my content was directly vacuumed and inserted into a spammy full of advertising website For all its faults, this is something I have no shame invoking DMCA for. You still own the copyright on your writing even if you publish it for free online.