Ask HN: Looking for lightweight personal blogging platform

#1

Post by trashtestcrash » Tue, Feb 06, 2024, 10:51 AM UTC

Requirements: - Write software engineering blogs with markdown - Open IDE, write some thoughts, push new version of the blog from my terminal - Be able to host on github for free - Be able to display code with syntax (I guess if it supports markdown it will support that too?) - Maintain structure e.g. post dates, navigation, post tags - Ability to have a page about me

Bonus points - be able to personalise a little bit the look and feel if I wanted to e.g. font

No need for: - comments on blog posts

What are my options?

Re: Ask HN: Looking for lightweight personal blogging platform

#2

Post by Kelteseth » Tue, Feb 06, 2024, 10:54 AM UTC

Hugo and papermod as the theme

https://github.com/adityatelange/hugo-PaperMod

Re: Ask HN: Looking for lightweight personal blogging platform

#3

Post by mbork_pl » Tue, Feb 06, 2024, 11:00 AM UTC

I looked for something similar and ended up coding my own. It was a lot of fun and even did not took too much time. Of course, I had one advantage – being an Emacs user I could leverage Emacs & Org mode. And one nice thing about my one is that the whole blog (content, templates, styles, JS) is contained in one source file. (Of course, binary assets are kept separately, though technically they could be embedded in an org file, too.) And btw, I don't even need to leave Emacs and go to the terminal to push he new version. :-)

If not for Emacs, I'd probably glue together a few tools like Pandoc, sedm scp and the like.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for lightweight personal blogging platform

#4

Post by fabianholzer » Tue, Feb 06, 2024, 11:31 AM UTC

If I were to start again from scratch, I'd likely use Zola as SSG (https://www.getzola.org/)

Re: Ask HN: Looking for lightweight personal blogging platform

#5

Post by matricaria » Tue, Feb 06, 2024, 12:53 PM UTC

I think this is what your looking for: https://jamstack.org/

I use Hugo with a theme called Congo. https://gohugo.io/ https://github.com/jpanther/congo

Re: Ask HN: Looking for lightweight personal blogging platform

#6

Post by lagniappe » Tue, Feb 06, 2024, 12:54 PM UTC

check out bearclaw https://github.com/donuts-are-good/bearclaw

write it in markdown and host it anywhere, no fancy shenanigans

Re: Ask HN: Looking for lightweight personal blogging platform

#7

Post by laputan-machine » Tue, Feb 06, 2024, 12:54 PM UTC

mbork_pl wrote: post #3

I looked for something similar and ended up coding my own. It was a lot of fun and even did not took too much time. Of course, I had one advantage – being an Emacs user I could leverage Emacs & Org mode. And one nice thing about my one is that the whole blog (content, templates, styles, JS) is contained in one source file. (Of course, binary assets are kept separately, though technically they could be embedded in an…