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Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

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Post by vinay_ys » Sun, Apr 03, 2022, 5:53 PM UTC

gurjeet wrote: post #80

vinay_ys wrote: post #70

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/gurje…

Just add DNS records pointing to both those CDNs. Your DNS hosting provider can serve them in rotating order to different users, there by spreading the load across your CDN providers. In case one CDN goes down, the browsers will try the next addresses in the DNS response.

You could get redundancy for the authoritative DNS hosting provider as well. Add both provider NS server records at your domain registrar. Then, your only single point of compromise would be your domain registrar.

You could get two different domains (on different tld) via different registrars and have both domains point to the same site. Of course, unless people know the alternate domain, this isn't of much help. But for a mobile app's api endpoint, I would recommend a setup like this to make it truly bullet proof.

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

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Post by ray__ » Sun, Apr 03, 2022, 5:55 PM UTC

olah_1 wrote: post #72

vinay_ys wrote: post #70

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.

This is a huge factor for me. The best blogging/knowledge share/writing tools are the ones that have minimal overhead.

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

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Post by ldjb » Sun, Apr 03, 2022, 5:58 PM UTC

sirodoht wrote: post #90

olah_1 wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I built mataroa. Not sure if your comment is referring to mataroa, but in case it is: I care a lot about typography and making a platform in which non-latin scripts can be read well. Mataroa does not provide any font. Rather, it uses the end user's system fonts. System fonts are most probably better than webfonts. They can define a large set of characters, including as many languages as they can, without caring about…

Thanks for your comments. However, for certain languages it is important to specify the language in the HTML with the `lang` attribute. Otherwise incorrect glyphs may be displayed. More info:

https://heistak.github.io/your-code-displays-japanese-wrong/

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

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Post by sirodoht » Sun, Apr 03, 2022, 6:03 PM UTC

ldjb wrote: post #93

sirodoht wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I built mataroa. Not sure if your comment is referring to mataroa, but in case it is: I care a lot about typography and making a platform in which non-latin scripts can be read well. Mataroa does not provide any font. Rather, it uses the end user's system fonts. System fonts are most probably better than webfonts. They can define a large set of characters, including as many languages as they can, without caring about…

Thanks for your comments. However, for certain languages it is important to specify the language in the HTML with the `lang` attribute. Otherwise incorrect glyphs may be displayed. More info: https://heistak.github.io/your-code-displays-japanese-wrong/

That's very interesting. Thank you for bringing it to my attention! Maybe a new setting to set the `lang` attribute is worth it.

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

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Post by csande17 » Sun, Apr 03, 2022, 6:04 PM UTC

ldjb wrote: post #93

sirodoht wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I built mataroa. Not sure if your comment is referring to mataroa, but in case it is: I care a lot about typography and making a platform in which non-latin scripts can be read well. Mataroa does not provide any font. Rather, it uses the end user's system fonts. System fonts are most probably better than webfonts. They can define a large set of characters, including as many languages as they can, without caring about…

Thanks for your comments. However, for certain languages it is important to specify the language in the HTML with the `lang` attribute. Otherwise incorrect glyphs may be displayed. More info: https://heistak.github.io/your-code-displays-japanese-wrong/

Unicode was supposed to save us from language-specific codepages, but alas...

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

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Post by loloquwowndueo » Sun, Apr 03, 2022, 6:13 PM UTC

olah_1 wrote: post #72

vinay_ys wrote: post #70

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.

You could keep the source files in GitHub and use their web editor to add or update content, then build and push to the publishing server via a GitHub action.

You can find descriptions of such a setup by googling.

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

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Post by lousyd » Sun, Apr 03, 2022, 6:19 PM UTC

derekzhouzhen wrote: post #48

One 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.

I haven't checked it out yet, but... Wouldn't one not want html text in the feed, if one chose to use a blogging platform whose focus was text and simplicity? I prefer to read feeds with plain text myself.

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

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Post by suyash » Sun, Apr 03, 2022, 6:20 PM UTC

I love this mostly but often need some customization, can I attach image or bikes to post ?

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

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Post by jolmg » Sun, Apr 03, 2022, 6:21 PM UTC

derekzhouzhen wrote: post #48

One 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.

> One 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.

The reason some blogs don't include the whole thing in the RSS is because they want you to visit the site for the ad revenue. It's not an oversight.

Blogging is (was?) a job for some people. It wasn't completely supported by ads, but ads are part of it. It's like YouTubers before YouTube.

Re: Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists

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Post by jolmg » Sun, Apr 03, 2022, 6:23 PM UTC

lousyd wrote: post #97

derekzhouzhen wrote: post #48

One 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.

I haven't checked it out yet, but... Wouldn't one not want html text in the feed, if one chose to use a blogging platform whose focus was text and simplicity? I prefer to read feeds with plain text myself.

Images are a feature many articles benefit from.