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I tried all the different static site generators, and I was annoyed with how everything was really complicated. I also came to the realization that I was never
by krapht 5y ago
I tried all the different static site generators, and I was annoyed with how everything was really complicated. I also came to the realization that I was never going to need a content management system with the amount of blogging I was doing, so I should stop overanalyzing the problem and just do the minimum thing that leads to more writing.
Then I decided to pretend I time-traveled back to the 90s - now I just write HTML, by hand, with a simple CSS style.
If CSS was any more complicated, I would've just written pure text in HTML and decorated things with ascii art.
You can host these trivially on GitHub, but back in the day I also used nearlyfreespeech.net to host my static websites. I don't know if they are still alive and kicking, but if so, would recommend.
I've also realized that among my professional contacts, people are starting to blog technical articles on LinkedIn. I think that's probably a decent way to go as well if you want discoverability.
- executesorder66 5y ago> Then I decided to pretend I time-traveled back to the 90s - now I just write HTML, by hand, with a simple CSS style. I wanted to, and would prefer to, do my website (which is mostly a blog for now) like this. But I like having tags and categories for all my blog posts, and I don't like the tedium of doing _that_ by hand. I could write something to do that for me, but then I'd just end up with a static site generator anyway. In the end I just settled with hugo since it can do everything I need for now.
- type0 5y ago> I've also realized that among my professional contacts, people are starting to blog technical articles on LinkedIn. That's unexpected, wouldn't it be just drowned with self aggrandizing bs there?