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> I am on the threshold of believing “actually just writing HTML by hand is probably easier” Might be true until you need to create those lovely RSS feeds by h
by mikae1 2y ago
> I am on the threshold of believing “actually just writing HTML by hand is probably easier”
Might be true until you need to create those lovely RSS feeds by hand…
> Do you enjoy debugging programming language installations? What about the language’s package ecosystem?
No and that is why I switched from Jekyll to the single binary SSG Hugo. Zola works the same way, single binary.
- superkuh 2y agoThat's actually pretty easy too. Take a look at an RSS file. There's a reason it's called really simple syndication. Adding another entry to an RSS file with your text editor is dead simple.
- mikae1 2y agoAdded friction means less writing, in my experience. But that depends in his often you update your site, I guess. I'm bound to believe that more friction means less updates.
- superkuh 2y agoI suppose if I were posting 5 times a day rather than 5 times a month doing the below would get tedious, <item> <title>It's not that hard</title> <link>http://www.superkuh.com/this-link-doesnt-exist</link> <description>This is an example of how quickly I can add a new item to my RSS feed.</description> </item>
- throwanem 2y agoOr if you wanted to syndicate via RSS rather than just linking, which frankly reads more like an SEO move than one intended for the benefit of human eyeballs...
- boxed 2y agoFor me the issue is that Jekyll is pretty terrible, and I guess something is iffy with ruby somehow? I don't really know or want to find out, I just want to publish my little blog.
- mikae1 2y agoI think I was never able to keep Jekyll working for more than six months before it broke down beyond repair. Today there's also gojekyll (which is a single binary). https://github.com/osteele/gojekyll https://github.com/osteele/gojekyll
- boxed 2y agoYea, me too. If I follow the advice of GitHubs dependabot screaming about exploits in the markdown renderer, then it breaks 100%. I just had to silence it.
- bachmeier 2y ago> Might be true until you need to create those lovely RSS feeds by hand… There are other options. I know for example that there was an extension for Pandoc that did it for you. Edit: https://github.com/chambln/pandoc-rss https://github.com/chambln/pandoc-rss
- fwip 2y agoWhich is SSG again, albeit with a more limited scope.