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Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

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Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

#71

The 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…

Ive used Github and Netlify (there are other alternatives too) for a simple and free static hosting.

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

#72

The 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

#73
post #44

I would like to try writing a post before signing up, or at least see what the import/export looks like I want to see if source code snippets, SVG, LaTeX, etc. works Same issue with bearblog.dev. They show you example rendered posts but not the example source

> I would like to try writing a post before signing up

"signing up" is completely painless

  - no cost, no email required
  - choose a subdomain name aka login
  - choose a password
  - done
they've alredy given you exactly what you're asking for

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

#74
post #29

I was using and loved mataroa. It was the fairest, most painless option I had found for blogging (as of 2020.) I eventually switched away from it because the default font was small and I couldn’t change it. I wonder if this has been updated since. (At the moment, I’m hosting my blog as a static site with NFS. I go back and forth about wanting comments/email sign-up.) The developers were nice though, and I used their…

That sounds easy to fix, just some custom css?

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

#76
Not gonna lie, the appeal of these things is entirely lost on me. Who is sitting around thinking, "I wish I could find somewhere that would let me write plain html with basic CSS to make it legible?" Literally anywhere that will host a page can be a minimal blogging platform if you just don't use django or whatever to host your blog.

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

#77
post #29

I was using and loved mataroa. It was the fairest, most painless option I had found for blogging (as of 2020.) I eventually switched away from it because the default font was small and I couldn’t change it. I wonder if this has been updated since. (At the moment, I’m hosting my blog as a static site with NFS. I go back and forth about wanting comments/email sign-up.) The developers were nice though, and I used their…

I was wondering about the typography too. Specifically for multi-language support, the chances are high that you’d want something better than the one default font they provide. Not to mention that you may want to edit the language meta code if you are writing in a different language.

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

#79
post #44

I would like to try writing a post before signing up, or at least see what the import/export looks like I want to see if source code snippets, SVG, LaTeX, etc. works Same issue with bearblog.dev. They show you example rendered posts but not the example source

Could you sign up using a mailinator.com account just to kick the tires?

You can sign up for an account without an email address, so I don't think there is a need for Mailinator here.

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

#80

The 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 use mostly this same setup for my personal site and blog [1] [2].

Git (versioning) -> Github (Git hosting) -> Github Pages (static site generation, and hosting) -> Cloudflare Free Plan (DNS and CDN). I have a Gitlab account that has mirrors of my Git repos, just in case.

One question, though. How do you use more than one CDN to front your website?

[1]: https://gurjeet.singh.im/ [2]: https://github.com/gurjeet/gurjeet.singh.im

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