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Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now

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Re: Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now

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Post by nrvslghtnng »

marban wrote: post #12

The 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…

Just adding another option to the mix: https://blot.im. I've been using Blot for years. I write/edit in iA Writer on mobile and upload via the git option using Working Copy. You can use git or Dropbox with Blot.

Re: Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now

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Post by johtso »

marban wrote: post #28
Kimitri wrote: post #26

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I'd suggest you give Forestry ( https://forestry.io ) a try. It's a great CMS for static sites (incl. asset management) and it has a really nice preview system.

Tried since day one but it seems dead.

Dead how? I find forestry with integrated cloudinary for asset hosting a really decent solution.

Re: Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now

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Post by cpach »

groundCode wrote: post #38
lloeki wrote: post #32

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> where to host and edit Markdown files and images for flexible spur of the moment content creation That, and somehow I don't like drafts to be on a public repo.

Nothing stopping you using a private repo. I use Netlify to host and have it automatically deploy when I merge to main, but my repo is private. I write my drafts in a branch and merge when I'm ready to publish.

Same here. I’ve tried both a self-hosted deployment solution and AWS Amplify. Both of them has used private repositories on Github. No SEO juice to Github, only to my domain :)

Re: Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now

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Post by rakoo »

webdevlion wrote: post #49
Uberphallus wrote: post #17

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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.

What is old is new again. This exact idea has floated for pretty much all messaging protocols that have had some kind of programmabilty already.

We can even imagine an email-based microblogging hack. Edit your boop (that's the new tweet) in your favorite MUA: the subject is the short text, the body is the long text. You can even put images and attachements in there. Send yourself this message, with a well-known prefix: it ends up in a specific IMAP folder. Have your third-party server that pulls messages from this folder and displays them in a "nice" view, so that anyone can browse and subscribe. To reply to boops, just reply to it in your MUA along with a copy for yourself and it will be present in your "Timeline" and in theirs. To address someone, send them a copy.

In a perfect world you could anonymously authenticate to anyone's IMAP server and read that "boops" folder, and even subscribe to it if you want. But I don't think any existing provider will ever implement something like that.

Email and RSS have all the fundamental building blocks for so many usecases already, but we keep reinventing the wheel again and again. The abstractions work. Imagine every company had to reinvent the whole TCP/IP stack every single time.

Re: Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now

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Post by prepend »

marban wrote: post #12

The 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…

GitHub and GitLab has pretty decent browser based editors for basic markdown and image uploading. Certainly not as easy to use as Wordpress but they’ve been good enough when I really need to edit something and can’t get to my workstation with the clone and a decent editor.

Re: Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now

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Post by justusthane »

vhanda wrote: post #50
polyrand wrote: post #24

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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

Disclaimer: App Author 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. [0] https://gitjournal.io [1] https://github.com/GitJournal

This looks great! Is it possible to create templates or script workflows in this app?

For example, when publishing new blog entry in my Eleventy site, I have to create a new folder, then create a markdown file in that folder with some specific frontmatter. Can I have GitJournal do that all for me?

Re: Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now

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Post by webdevlion »

john-doe wrote: post #57
marban wrote: post #53

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I was also thinking of SMS to blog via Twilio — Used to do this in the late 90s from a Nokia Communicator

Here's a nice SMS to blog how-to/setup: https://writxt.fun

Great find, thanks for this!
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