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Jekyll is pretty great (just chuck a disqus block in your footer), there's a real risk of getting bogged down in setting up the 'perfect' system with it and nev
by joshvm 10y ago
Jekyll is pretty great (just chuck a disqus block in your footer), there's a real risk of getting bogged down in setting up the 'perfect' system with it and never getting round to publishing anything.
I think Wordpress still has one of the most outstanding install experiences, but keeping it up to date is a pain.
- Rapzid 10y agoCool, I may give Jekyll another shot(had a false start couple years ago). I have tons of experience doing hardened WP installs(and compromise root cause) but almost no experience USING it haha. I'd prefer not to go down that rabbit hole if something like Jekyll is sufficient.
- UweSchmidt 10y agoIf you only publish an blogpost once in a while, you wouldn't even need Jekyll. Figure out your template, and save your post in an .html file, add a link to the index.html and upload both to /var/www/ on your own cheap Linux cloud webspace. Markdown is nice, but if you don't need much you can sprinkle some <h..> and <b> tags on your post and you're done. There are browser based syntax highlighting tools where you can paste in your code from your IDE and get it back nicely formatted with the appropriate CSS. Might not be right for you, but I had to bring up the easiest, the truly minimalist, hey, the original way to it.
- nvarsj 10y agoIndeed, I think I've spent more time tweaking my jekyll based site than actually blogging. It was a lot simpler when I just had some html pages I edited in Emacs :).