You should make a blog!

Re:You should make a blog! by balladeer on Sunday December 22, 2019 @11:41PM (#21861517)

I have been wanting to start a blog since I joined college. It's been more than a decade now. I want to keep it simple. I finally changed my website to html, css only. No js, no plugins, none of those cool static site generators. None of those fancy effects. Simple text and it looks pretty clean and simple on mobile too. And it's fast! Finally after years of playing with my website (my landing page) after having tried dozens methods and tools I am happy with it.

I think that's how I will write my blog posts too. Whenever I want to write a post (that won't be frequent) I'll just add a html page in my /blog dir on github pages and link it on /blog.html with date/title and all. I am sure there are tons of such blogs out there. And then I will request OP to donate to Internet Archive :)

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Re:You should make a blog! by pinehqcom on Monday December 23, 2019 @04:03PM (#21867352)

I understand the no js/plugins, but why not a static site generator? Static site generators (at least most) are the only "new" technology that seems to make things simpler instead of more complicated, and SSGs are a massive time saver regarding themes, sitemaps, robot, optimization, etc.. and there are no dependencies at all. It also helps me writing. I run `hugo serve` that autorefreshes in the background, then I have split up my screen with right being my vim and right my browser. Takes 1 second to see the result of what I am doing.

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