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Re:Creating a Blog without a backend by salehhamadeh on Saturday March 29, 2014 @11:54PM (#7495154)
It may be evident for you since you probably have seen many frameworks and implementations. Before hearing about Jekyll, I only used Blogger and WordPress, which relies on the database for almost everything.
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Re:Creating a Blog without a backend by ForHackernews on Sunday March 30, 2014 @12:21AM (#7495222)
But that's only to provide a convenient admin interface for people who don't want to write posts in HTML (or markdown or whatever)

I guess what I'm saying is that (except for the comments) blogs are static pages that contain (mostly) unchanging content, not dynamic data that needs to be updated.

If you're curious about the history, you might look into MovableType, which predates WordPress by a couple years, and has always supported static page generation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movable_Type

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Re:Creating a Blog without a backend by redwall_hp on Sunday March 30, 2014 @02:17AM (#7495404)
Once upon a time, Pyra Labs' Blogger was a tool that generated static pages and FTP'd them to your server. This was back in the heyday of Movable Type.
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Re:Creating a Blog without a backend by danieldk on Sunday March 30, 2014 @02:55AM (#7495463)
I remember using ppwizard on OS/2 :):

http://dennisbareis.com/ppwizard.htm

Nowadays I am using Hakyll, it's a natural progression from Jekyll and is much easier to customize (it's basically a Haskell DSL for static site generation).

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