Minimum Viable Blog

Re:Minimum Viable Blog by AndrewStephens on Saturday May 03, 2025 @07:30AM (#43878367)

I restarted my own blog in exactly the same way after getting frustrated with WordPress. The most important thing in blogging is to get something simple that will not get the way of you actually writing.

Over the years I have added to my solution with custom markdown, tagging, rss, and most lately exif-stripping. Technically the source is available [0] but I can’t see anyone else using it.

[0] https://github.com/andrewstephens75/gensite

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Re:Minimum Viable Blog by ostwilkens on Saturday May 03, 2025 @07:37AM (#43878390)

>The most important thing in blogging is to get something simple that will not get the way of you actually writing.

Yes! I find the easiest way for me is to just open a new tab in my code editor and typing.

Exif is a real gotcha. I'm planning to compress images anyway, so this could be done in the same step.

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Re:Minimum Viable Blog by AndrewStephens on Saturday May 03, 2025 @07:48AM (#43878436)

> Exif

Yeah, I thought I was being careful and manually stripping it from photos until a nice reader emailed me to gently let me know i had missed a few.

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