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I am currently in the process of moving things over from hosted services to Hugo / Netlify. For the last month I've been messing around with various ssg's and

I am currently in the process of moving things over from hosted services to Hugo / Netlify. For the last month I've been messing around with various ssg's and jamstack solutions. I spent a week tinkering with 11ty and loved a lot of my time with it and would love to explore it more, but after a few days it ended up being far too complex, since my goal is to focus on publishing work over personal website development. Sometime I always struggle to find a balance with and why services/social media probably won out for me for so many years. Hugo has just been a more straight forward approach. Like the author, I've been thinking a lot about my work and where it's published/owned/controlled by and determined that I want to port all my relevant social post over the years back to my website for archival purposes. Maybe a Posts/Feed type website, more like tumblr, that is self contained and relatively simple to move/manage and maintain.

giuliomagnifico 5y ago
> I spent a week tinkering with 11ty and loved a lot of my time with it and would love to explore it more, but after a few days it ended up being far too complex Yes, unfortunately is not easy, if you want a more fast and easy way is use GitHub Pages. With Jekyll is very fast to set up (like 15-20 mins), I think it's the same with Hugo (I've never deleved in Hugo). You don't have the full control on your content like if it's hosted on your server, because you have to rely on GitHub, but you have your content and is a lot better than any other blogging platform and is also easier to maintain. For me was a goal to understand how Jekyll works self-hosted, I love learn new thing, that's also why I moved my blog to my VPS.