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I don’t enjoy the process of having to build the site and push the built site to a service like github. It adds a certain kind of friction to the process of “sa
by olah_1 5y ago
I don’t enjoy the process of having to build the site and push the built site to a service like github. It adds a certain kind of friction to the process of “saving” my work that just isn’t life-giving for me.
- ray__ 5y agoThis is a huge factor for me. The best blogging/knowledge share/writing tools are the ones that have minimal overhead.
- loloquwowndueo 5y agoYou could keep the source files in GitHub and use their web editor to add or update content, then build and push to the publishing server via a GitHub action. You can find descriptions of such a setup by googling.
- olah_1 5y ago> then build and push to the publishing server via a GitHub action I have looked into this before, but it honestly just seemed very esoteric and complex. I'm surprised that Github doesn't provide pre-made "recipes" for this stuff.
- bmitc 5y agoWith Jekyll, you just have your site in a `<username>.github.io` repository, and it automatically publishes your site for you. So, the process is: write in markdown, commit, push, and then GitHub does the rest.
- olah_1 5y agoYep, I know. But honestly I find all the jekyll themes pretty ugly