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I once tried to do this as well, and got sucked into the rabbit hole of tinkering with little scripts and hacks and trying things out and never writing my first
by Scarblac 8y ago
I once tried to do this as well, and got sucked into the rabbit hole of tinkering with little scripts and hacks and trying things out and never writing my first blog post before I lost motivation.
Next time I feel like I want to write a blog I'll just put it on wordpress.com or so.
- baby 8y agoThat’s what I tell everyone. Blogging is about the content, not the form. Do not waste time doing anything else than writing. Setup a wordpress and write, once you have more content take a day to transfer stuff to jekyll or something.
- m-localhost 8y agoIf I already considered plain text for writing, I would rather start with a flat file system like Grav[1] or Pico CMS[2] that's based on markdown files, than trying to get the content out of a wordpress db later. Given, WP is at this point the standard to publish online and it's quick and easy. [1]: https://getgrav.org/ https://getgrav.org/ [2]: http://picocms.org/ http://picocms.org/
- OskarS 8y agoI think the pleasure of doing something like this is in the pure tinkering. Setting up the system just like you want it is kind-of fun. There's some value in that.
- z3t4 8y agoMarkup also matters. With good markup and design the content can be more inviting. I think everyone should learn some basic HTML and CSS. Standard formatting is boring.
- taeric 8y agoDepending on the content you are trying to do, different formats help. For me, the few times I get around to writing a blog post, I'm also writing some code to play with. In that, org has been amazingly fun. http://taeric.github.io/Sudoku.html http://taeric.github.io/Sudoku.html is an example. All of the code and blog material is in one source and I don't have to worry about changing excerpts to put on the page. Literally change the code and rerun.
- AegisCZ 8y agoTry using Luke Smiths tool 'lb'