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raganwald.com uses github’s md-to-html thingy, which is jekyl. But there is nearly zero walled garden downside. I own the domain, I don’t use github.io, so I d
by braythwayt 7y ago
raganwald.com uses github’s md-to-html thingy, which is jekyl.
But there is nearly zero walled garden downside. I own the domain, I don’t use github.io, so I don’t fear link rot if I move.
Because it’s git, I always have a copy of everything locally, I don’t depend on github for storage.
Because it’s jekyll, I can generate my blog on my own system and upload it somewhere else whenever I want.
I don’t support comments at all, but that’s a personal choice. I’m not in the community business, I outsource comments to Hacker News. Which is also how most of my readers want to discuss my writing.
- Cybiote 7y agoYeah, you're always going to be reliant on third parties in a complex world. What is important is how beholden or locked in you are in any given arrangement. If you are free to move from one contractor to another because they are all interoperable, then you're independent in a more important sense.
- munmaek 7y agoI suppose that works, I guess I just like hosting my own services over trusting an external service to stay the same and/or play nice in the future. That kicks the bucket to the VPS hosting providers, but with docker it's trivially easy to set up a new server. With the setup I mentioned above, I just build, commit, then git push, which triggers a pull on both of my servers due to webhooks.