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I remember once someone who posted their blog and it was just a listing of markdown files in a github repository. Not even a jekyllyzed version... just a folder
by agentgt 9y ago
I remember once someone who posted their blog and it was just a listing of markdown files in a github repository. Not even a jekyllyzed version... just a folder with date prefixed markdown and rst files.
I have to say it hit me and I was like... damn I should just do that. Forget all this blogging platforms and getting caught up in look and feel. Just write text files.
Even with Jekyll (and its variants) I got caught up on making it potentially look nice but this person just said ... f-it... let google and github figure out how to organize the content.
- rocky1138 9y agoYou might be interested to know that this is how blogs got their start. For reference, see .plan files [0]. [0] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/P/plan-file.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/P/plan-file.html
- jcurbo 9y agoSee also: John Carmack's plan file updates. https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive
- bachmeier 9y agoI've come to the conclusion that all the design stuff is a waste of time. In most cases, it doesn't impress me on other sites, and if someone cares, they can use Reader View or Pocket or something like that. Unless you are good enough to create a design that makes folks say wow, there is no benefit at all from doing so.
- kaybe 9y agoOne of the most popular German blogs, fefe's blog, only has pure html. It's perfect for testing things because it is so fast. https://blog.fefe.de/ https://blog.fefe.de/
- drdrey 9y agoor http://danluu.com/ http://danluu.com/
- metalliqaz 9y agoNow I'm intrigued as to what that looked like. Was he using github.io or did you have to just click through the Github source code browser? Also was he really writing some of the posts in ReStructuredText, or was that a converted output?
- agentgt 9y agoOh I’m sorry I missed your question earlier. It was straight to github. I think he/she had some readme for some basic instructions/about.
- fizzychicken 9y agoThis is only slightly similar, but Ive played around with hexo to acheive a HTML only driven blog based on github hosted markdown files. Once setup and secured it is pretty much just me writing and publishing text files. https://hexo.io/ https://hexo.io/ It seems to be very popular in Japan as most guides I read were google-translated Japanese blogs.
- h1d 9y agoI just took a look around for self hosted blogs and found PostLeaf pretty slick and only has what is required without UI bloat.