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How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare

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Re: How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare

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Post by Macha »

leonheld wrote: post #23

I profoundly do not understand why one needs Hugo or Jekyll or whatever other generator. Why not write HTML in the first place? It's so absurdly easy and it makes you not depend on external infrastructure at all. I tried some generators but it was so much more complicated than writing a style sheet and some pages. Maybe for some more complex use-case, okay, I get it, but the author's blog is so minimal and simple. ed…

The separation of template and content is the reason. You don't want to have to run a find and replace to add a new link to your sidebar or whatever.

Re: How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare

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Post by zoezoezoezoe »

dang wrote: post #153

[stub for offtopicness] [submitted title was "How I Blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare – Zero Cost, Fully Owned"]

I really dont agree with "fully owned", you arent running on anything you actually own ie self-hosting. It's all on the cloud, which dont get me wrong, is pretty cool and helpful, but hardly yours.

Re: How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare

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Post by Brajeshwar »

begueradj wrote: post #48
dang wrote: post #153

[stub for offtopicness] [submitted title was "How I Blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare – Zero Cost, Fully Owned"]

Obsidian, Hugo, Github, Cloudflare ... none of those are owned by you.

The idea is to use them as tools that get the job done and get out of the way, while you own the content. All of these tools are easily replaceable and the pipeline can still publish to the final blog domain without any worry.

Re: How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare

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Post by ingav »

zoezoezoezoe wrote: post #52
dang wrote: post #153

[stub for offtopicness] [submitted title was "How I Blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare – Zero Cost, Fully Owned"]

I really dont agree with "fully owned", you arent running on anything you actually own ie self-hosting. It's all on the cloud , which dont get me wrong, is pretty cool and helpful, but hardly yours.

I’m using “fully owned” more in the sense of control rather than infrastructure ownership. The content lives locally, it’s versioned in Git, and everything’s built with open tools. I can move it to another host any time without being locked into a specific platform or format.

I agree it’s not “self-hosted”. But compared to a closed CMS or paid platform, it feels meaningfully more in my hands.

Re: How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare

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Post by ingav »

riffraff wrote: post #40
jprjr_ wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's deployed onto Cloudflare Pages - I think this is 100% the opposite of fully-owned.

I think the point is that it's not someone else's blogging service. If CF or GH die, you can port this to some other platform or your own server without losing anything, compared to e.g. blogger.

Yes. That's exactly what I meant. The content is not locked-down and is fully portable.

Re: How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare

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Post by Brajeshwar »

leonheld wrote: post #23

I profoundly do not understand why one needs Hugo or Jekyll or whatever other generator. Why not write HTML in the first place? It's so absurdly easy and it makes you not depend on external infrastructure at all. I tried some generators but it was so much more complicated than writing a style sheet and some pages. Maybe for some more complex use-case, okay, I get it, but the author's blog is so minimal and simple. ed…

How do you plan to manage 1,000+ posts with HTML and make changes that are similar across all pages, say, the location of your static assets (images) or something common like footer, nav, etc?

Re: How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare

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Post by semi-extrinsic »

seanwilson wrote: post #17
caboteria wrote: post #6

I'm curious about the pros and cons of Cloudflare pages versus GitHub pages. Given that you're using GH as a repo, would it be simpler to also use it to serve pages?

https://docs.github.com/en/pages/getting-started-with-github... > GitHub Pages is not intended for or allowed to be used as a free web-hosting service to run your online business, e-commerce site, or any other website that is primarily directed at either facilitating commercial transactions or providing commercial software as a service (SaaS). Not finding a similar mention for Cloudflare... commercial sites are fine…

The way I understand this is not that Github Pages can't be used for commercial purposes, but that it's not OK for something like ecommerce with many users every minute which generates a lot of load?

So a small company could host a static landing page with generic info and "contact us" etc., and that would be fine, I think?

It also mentions that breaking the rules will result in getting a "polite email suggesting ways to reduce load on Github".

Re: How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare

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Post by fabianholzer »

jasonthorsness wrote: post #41
pembrook wrote: post #28

Great stuff, looking forward to your next blog post in 1 year: “How I rebuilt my blog on…” A fun hobby of mine is Googling “how I built this blog with [next.js/Gatsby/etc etc]” and going to page 10 of the Google results. It’s just hundreds of developer blogs with no blog posts other than the ones announcing how the blog was built.

Is there a support group for this? I have not rebuilt my blog since Feb 21 2024 though I have been sorely tempted :P

There probably should be one, maybe taking turns with the biweekly Authors of custom static site Generators Anonymous meeting

Re: How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare

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Post by victorbjorklund »

leonheld wrote: post #23

I profoundly do not understand why one needs Hugo or Jekyll or whatever other generator. Why not write HTML in the first place? It's so absurdly easy and it makes you not depend on external infrastructure at all. I tried some generators but it was so much more complicated than writing a style sheet and some pages. Maybe for some more complex use-case, okay, I get it, but the author's blog is so minimal and simple. ed…

Because then you have 200 blog posts and suddenly you realize "oh I wanna add an author section to all my blog posts". That is 200 files to edit. Could you write a script to do the edit? Sure, but then you pretty much build a static site generator.
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