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I feel like people spend more time migrating blogging engines than actually blogging.

by kchoudhu 8y ago

dvlsg 8y ago
At least then you can blog about the blogging engine migration.
- confounded 8y ago
  I personally enjoy the grand tradition of nerds writing blogs only about how they set up a blog.
  - comboy 8y ago
    ham radio 2.0
  - kaushalmodi 8y ago
    I thought I would also end up just being one of those (I had a sort of setting-up the blog using Hugo post too). But lately my blogging on many other topics that I'm really passionate about has picked up. Writing in Org mode has really reduced the writing block for me. I'm so glad I switched from Octopress to Hugo about maybe 2 years back.
    - abricot 8y ago
      Have you at least blogged about using org-mode?
      - kaushalmodi 8y ago
        No, I got into developing an Emacs package that exports Org mode to Hugo-friendly Markdown - ox-hugo. Here's the package homepage created using Emacs/Org mode + ox-hugo + Hugo: https://ox-hugo.scripter.co/ https://ox-hugo.scripter.co/.
dsr_ 8y ago
I did that for a while. I used Ghost, Octopress (which was basically Jekyll), a variety of SSGs that I tested and never got to deploying, and then Pelican. Since January 2016, though, infrastructure work basically stopped and I just write things, and occasionally dink the theme.
pokstad 8y ago
Funny, I wrote a blog about that: http://pokstad.com/2018/05/20/power-of-simplicity.html http://pokstad.com/2018/05/20/power-of-simplicity.html
- 5thbootloader 8y ago
  I really liked your blog theme. Very neat!
  - pokstad 8y ago
    Thanks! The theme is called ReMarkdown: https://github.com/fvsch/remarkdown https://github.com/fvsch/remarkdown
- 18pfsmt 8y ago
  Are we no longer differentiating between a blog and a blog post (i.e. an individual entry vs. the entire collection)?
sidmani 8y ago
I found the existing static site generators confusing and wrote my own, which ended up being equally confusing for everyone except me. Whatever works, I guess. https://github.com/sidmani/anodize https://github.com/sidmani/anodize
pjmlp 8y ago
I still use bleeding edge PHP with articles written in XML originally implemented in 2001, it works no need to change, only occasional template or PHP related improvements.

I feel like people spend more time migrating blogging engines than actually blogging.

dvlsg 8y ago

At least then you can blog about the blogging engine migration.

confounded 8y ago
I personally enjoy the grand tradition of nerds writing blogs only about how they set up a blog.
- comboy 8y ago
  ham radio 2.0
- kaushalmodi 8y ago
  I thought I would also end up just being one of those (I had a sort of setting-up the blog using Hugo post too). But lately my blogging on many other topics that I'm really passionate about has picked up. Writing in Org mode has really reduced the writing block for me. I'm so glad I switched from Octopress to Hugo about maybe 2 years back.
  - abricot 8y ago
    Have you at least blogged about using org-mode?
    - kaushalmodi 8y ago
      No, I got into developing an Emacs package that exports Org mode to Hugo-friendly Markdown - ox-hugo. Here's the package homepage created using Emacs/Org mode + ox-hugo + Hugo: https://ox-hugo.scripter.co/ https://ox-hugo.scripter.co/.

dsr_ 8y ago

I did that for a while. I used Ghost, Octopress (which was basically Jekyll), a variety of SSGs that I tested and never got to deploying, and then Pelican. Since January 2016, though, infrastructure work basically stopped and I just write things, and occasionally dink the theme.

pokstad 8y ago

Funny, I wrote a blog about that: http://pokstad.com/2018/05/20/power-of-simplicity.html http://pokstad.com/2018/05/20/power-of-simplicity.html

5thbootloader 8y ago
I really liked your blog theme. Very neat!
- pokstad 8y ago
  Thanks! The theme is called ReMarkdown: https://github.com/fvsch/remarkdown https://github.com/fvsch/remarkdown
18pfsmt 8y ago
Are we no longer differentiating between a blog and a blog post (i.e. an individual entry vs. the entire collection)?

sidmani 8y ago

I found the existing static site generators confusing and wrote my own, which ended up being equally confusing for everyone except me. Whatever works, I guess. https://github.com/sidmani/anodize https://github.com/sidmani/anodize

pjmlp 8y ago

I still use bleeding edge PHP with articles written in XML originally implemented in 2001, it works no need to change, only occasional template or PHP related improvements.