> Instead of using a hosted service like Facebook or Medium, as I strongly believe in a decentralized web
So you put it on Github..
Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now
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Re: Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now
#42The real problem with any SSG is where to host and edit Markdown files and images for flexible spur of the moment content creation. I've built my own Wordpress-export-to-static solution to use the native iOS App as a workaround but it feels somewhat clunky — Same with having to run a headless CMS for this in the background; Surprisingly with all the gazillion of MD editors, no one has ever built one with live editing…
Why can't you work on posts in another editor and export to your repo (copy-paste or whatever) posts when they are ready for publishing? Why does writing and publishing have to be in the same tool?
You can write in something like Bear, or anything else with iCloud support to have cross-device sync.
Re: Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now
#43> Instead of using a hosted service like Facebook or Medium, as I strongly believe in a decentralized web So you put it on Github..
The way he's using Github is as a basic host, he could move to a different service and the blog would look the same, the URLs still work, and the visitors couldn't tell the difference.
That's day and night compared to publishing on Facebook or Medium.
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#44I dig the theme, its clean and old school.
One bit of feedback: you should bump up the overall font size and do a relative max-width, maybe 70%. I bumped up zoom by two to get things readable on my MacBook.
Much of your audience will be on screens that are at least 1200 pixels wide, so forcing folks to ~12pt / 600px ends up w/ things being pretty small and cramped.
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#45> Instead of using a hosted service like Facebook or Medium, as I strongly believe in a decentralized web So you put it on Github..
(author here) Good point, but I still believe it is much better to use your own domain and have control of the whole html. Sadly because of the infrastructure currently available there is a balance between usability and centralization (but I don't think it needs to be this way). In the end, github page is being a commodity service, I could easily replace with any major provider to host the same website and users wouldn't even notice. If I wanted to be extremely radical I could host it on my personal machine on my house, but latency and availability would suffer. If I used a service like CloudFlare to improve it, we are back to centralization. Sadly, there isn't a black and white answer here.
Re: Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now
#46I am somewhat confused by this blog post, as GitHub directly renders Jekyll sites by default–no GitHub Actions or fiddling required. Is there a reason why this was not the right fit?
Depends on your build I guess. We compile things like TailwindCSS in our build. Not sure if that's supported outside of Actions.
Re: Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now
#47I dig the theme, its clean and old school. One bit of feedback: you should bump up the overall font size and do a relative max-width, maybe 70%. I bumped up zoom by two to get things readable on my MacBook. Much of your audience will be on screens that are at least 1200 pixels wide, so forcing folks to ~12pt / 600px ends up w/ things being pretty small and cramped.
Great feedback, I will experiment with your suggestions, thanks!
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#48Consider using the regular Jekyll at https://jekyllrb.com/ (the Jekyll Now fork is no longer maintained)
FYI: Here's my little minimialist starter kit called Hello, Minima! - Get Started w/ GitHub Pages (Jekyll) in 60 Seconds using the Minima (Gem-Packaged) Theme [1].
Re: Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now
#49The real problem with any SSG is where to host and edit Markdown files and images for flexible spur of the moment content creation. I've built my own Wordpress-export-to-static solution to use the native iOS App as a workaround but it feels somewhat clunky — Same with having to run a headless CMS for this in the background; Surprisingly with all the gazillion of MD editors, no one has ever built one with live editing…
Personally I write to myself on telegram, then take it from there once I'm on a computer. Doing detail editing on a phone is painful anyway.
This makes me think, a Telegram-bot-as-a-CMS would work great for micro blogging.
Re: Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now
#50The real problem with any SSG is where to host and edit Markdown files and images for flexible spur of the moment content creation. I've built my own Wordpress-export-to-static solution to use the native iOS App as a workaround but it feels somewhat clunky — Same with having to run a headless CMS for this in the background; Surprisingly with all the gazillion of MD editors, no one has ever built one with live editing…
This is my exact feeling. I have a Hugo-powered blog, but like you said, I miss the ability to draft something quickly when I'm inspired. Right now, the best option I have found is self-hosting Ghost with some aggressive Cloudflare caching. I considered using wp2static[0] before starting with Ghost. Have you published your exporter? [0] https://github.com/leonstafford/wp2static
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If your Hugo blog is stored in Git, you could try out GitJournal [0][1]. It's a mobile based Markdown editor integrated with Git. Many people seem to use it for managing their Hugo/Jekyll blogs.