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I'm wondering, what kind of dynamic features were you interested in for a blog that you update once per month? Why not just edit static files on S3?

mtigas 14y ago
I'm actually coming up on ten years of having the same blog: waaaayyyyy back when I started, I was editing all my pages manually. (Though blog posts didn’t have permalinks, it was just a growing massive "list page" that I’d break off and paginate every so often.) It started to become a pain in situations where I wanted to modify some basic aspect of every page: I’ve consistently gotten the itch to either re-architect or re-design my blog annually. You really can’t beat a system that uses templates. I'd tried my own Javascript-based content system in the past (where everything is based on one HTML page and JS loads the page content), but those add a bit more client-side complexity (not to mention search engine reachability). I think the ability to regenerate an entire 500+ page static HTML site is pretty powerful and useful. (Also: who wants to manually update date-based URL paths every time there’s a new thing? http://v3.mike.tig.as/blog/2012/06/30/ http://v3.mike.tig.as/blog/2012/06/30/ http://v3.mike.tig.as/blog/2012/06/ http://v3.mike.tig.as/blog/2012/06/ http://v3.mike.tig.as/blog/2012/ http://v3.mike.tig.as/blog/2012/ etc.) EDIT: As to your first question wrt "dynamic features I wanted": CMS and full control over my site's behavior and templates. It’s Django-based, too, so I can theoretically extend it with any features as necessary. (I also have plenty of "non-published" content that I can view on the local, "hot type" development server of my site, but the "renderer" file is only configured to upload blog posts marked as "live". I find that feature pretty useful.)
- ashray 14y ago
  I see how you can use this :) It's actually a pretty great idea for some scenarios so kudos on that! TBH, I still think Django is overkill for a static site, there are templating systems and frameworks that would be far lighter (flask + jinja ?) - especially given that you really don't need any dynamic usage at all. Still, great work on creating and releasing a tool that makes your (and possibly others..) life easier!

mtigas 14y ago

I'm actually coming up on ten years of having the same blog: waaaayyyyy back when I started, I was editing all my pages manually. (Though blog posts didn’t have permalinks, it was just a growing massive "list page" that I’d break off and paginate every so often.) It started to become a pain in situations where I wanted to modify some basic aspect of every page: I’ve consistently gotten the itch to either re-architect or re-design my blog annually. You really can’t beat a system that uses templates. I'd tried my own Javascript-based content system in the past (where everything is based on one HTML page and JS loads the page content), but those add a bit more client-side complexity (not to mention search engine reachability). I think the ability to regenerate an entire 500+ page static HTML site is pretty powerful and useful. (Also: who wants to manually update date-based URL paths every time there’s a new thing? http://v3.mike.tig.as/blog/2012/06/30/ http://v3.mike.tig.as/blog/2012/06/30/ http://v3.mike.tig.as/blog/2012/06/ http://v3.mike.tig.as/blog/2012/06/ http://v3.mike.tig.as/blog/2012/ http://v3.mike.tig.as/blog/2012/ etc.) EDIT: As to your first question wrt "dynamic features I wanted": CMS and full control over my site's behavior and templates. It’s Django-based, too, so I can theoretically extend it with any features as necessary. (I also have plenty of "non-published" content that I can view on the local, "hot type" development server of my site, but the "renderer" file is only configured to upload blog posts marked as "live". I find that feature pretty useful.)

ashray 14y ago
I see how you can use this :) It's actually a pretty great idea for some scenarios so kudos on that! TBH, I still think Django is overkill for a static site, there are templating systems and frameworks that would be far lighter (flask + jinja ?) - especially given that you really don't need any dynamic usage at all. Still, great work on creating and releasing a tool that makes your (and possibly others..) life easier!