Ask HN: Excluding WordPress, what is your favorite for blogs or small stores?

Re:Ask HN: Excluding WordPress, what is your favorite for bl... by mrswag on Monday January 02, 2017 @04:58AM (#13300212)

I generate static webpages from markdown in a < 100 lines bash script. It's just a for loop using sed, pygments and markdown, hosted on github.

It has a local webserver, spell check, optional image compression, and minimal dependencies.

I don't get the need of Jekyll or Hugo. They're bloated and it's a pain to customize so called "themes". I'm OK with 'boring' HTML and CSS.

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Re:Ask HN: Excluding WordPress, what is your favorite for bl... by allover on Monday January 02, 2017 @05:10AM (#13300265)

It's great you built your own tool and workflow that suits you, but there's no need to declare things 'bloated', just because they include things you don't want to use. That's your opinion. Its defaults suit me pretty well, and it's really well documented.

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Re:Ask HN: Excluding WordPress, what is your favorite for bl... by mrswag on Monday January 02, 2017 @05:33AM (#13300354)

Bad wording on my side, sorry. My grief is mostly against some prominent themes that weight 5 MB a page, and feature jQuery to animate the menu.

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Re:Ask HN: Excluding WordPress, what is your favorite for bl... by allover on Monday January 02, 2017 @06:17AM (#13300503)

Cool, I hear you but Jekyll actually comes with a very minimal theme (when you 'jekyll new my-site'). Heavy 3rd party themes aren't really the fault of Jekyll.

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Re:Ask HN: Excluding WordPress, what is your favorite for bl... by ngrilly on Monday January 02, 2017 @05:28AM (#13300341)

What do you use for the local webserver, spell check and image image compression?

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Re:Ask HN: Excluding WordPress, what is your favorite for bl... by mrswag on Monday January 02, 2017 @05:38AM (#13300371)

`python -m SimpleHTTPServer` for the local server (or if you prefer the python3 variant, `python3 -m http.server`), aspell for the spell check, and OptiPNG for PNG compression.

I didn't found something (yet) for JPEG.

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Re:Ask HN: Excluding WordPress, what is your favorite for bl... by bildung on Monday January 02, 2017 @06:02AM (#13300435)

> I didn't found something (yet) for JPEG.

jpegoptim --strip-all

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Re:Ask HN: Excluding WordPress, what is your favorite for bl... by mrswag on Monday January 02, 2017 @08:00AM (#13300892)

Thanks, exactly what I was looking for!

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Re:Ask HN: Excluding WordPress, what is your favorite for bl... by kabisote on Monday January 02, 2017 @05:02AM (#13300229)

+1 for Hugo.

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