3 ms·
Obligatory meme: https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19/ https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19/ I'm personally in the top left corner and bottom right co
by pixelmonkey 2y ago
Obligatory meme:
https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19/ https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19/
I'm personally in the top left corner and bottom right corner at the same time, which is sort of funny.
I have used WordPress since 2004-2005, and I've also written a Python static site generator before using Flask, Frozen-Flask[1], and webpack. I've also made stops through tools like Sphinx, Hugo, Gatsby, and VitePress[2]. But my personal site continues to run WordPress[3].
I think I'd prefer something like VitePress these days for a technical documentation site. It has a lot going for it for that use case.
Also, I recently learned that MediaWiki with a reasonable theme like Citizen[4] is a nice choice for an open source powered private wiki, although I do find the Mediawiki markup language a little cumbersome versus simpler markup languages like reST or Markdown/MyST in the Python community (or GitHub-Flavored Markdown or Asciidoc supported elsewhere). But Mediawiki has a lot of nice features (after all, Mediawiki powers Wikipedia). The theme makes it work properly on mobile and makes content editing a bit simpler. It still isn't nearly as polished as commercial wiki-like software (e.g. Notion) but it's better than open source wikis used to be.
I do find it kind of amusing how many tools and frameworks developers have created for making it easier to edit HTML pages. Truly a foundational 21st century problem, I guess!
[1]: https://frozen-flask.readthedocs.io/ https://frozen-flask.readthedocs.io/
[2]: https://vitepress.dev/ https://vitepress.dev/
[3]: https://amontalenti.com https://amontalenti.com
[4]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Citizen https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Citizen
- AlienRobot 2y agoIt's the adage: your users don't care about your tech stack. In the time it takes for you to learn jekyll or hugo, someone with a wordpress blog already wrote 30 articles. When you finally figure out static hosting, 50 posts. When you finally make something with it that you wouldn't be able to do with vanilla wordpress, they will have their first user. :P
- pixelmonkey 2y agoExactly. :)
- neya 2y agoHaha! That meme was spot on. I think we’re both the same, I simultaneously belong to the top left and bottom right too. In my case, i got lucky. I put my CMS to production into a newsroom that has over 50,000 articles, so in my case I was extremely lucky that it paid off. But, I totally get your point on getting lost in the chase. Thanks for sharing!