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Link Blog in a Static Site

56 points by nurandal 2y ago

planetjones 2y ago
On my personal site (also built with Hugo) I post images of food I have eaten and media I have consumed. I could use Instagram, Bluesky or X but I want the content to be mine and stay mine. And I am doing it because I like to blog things not because I want the interaction on social media. https://www.planetjones.net/food.html https://www.planetjones.net/food.html https://www.planetjones.net/reviews.html https://www.planetjones.net/reviews.html
- deleted 2y ago
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- rednafi 2y ago
  Yeah, the whole point of this is tracking the progress of something, not vanity interaction. This is why I decided to leave it out of the main RSS feed to avoid spamming readers.
  - marcosdumay 2y ago
    So... you want to use your blog as some kind of a log ported to the web? Yeah, most tools are built to support something different.
    - rednafi 2y ago
      Not the entire blog, just a single page, yes.
- dwood_dev 2y ago
  Where did you settle on for your image hosting? I like GH Pages and Hugo, but it feels dirty to put images in a git repository. At the same time, GitHub does allow 5GB per repo, so I'm torn.
  - rednafi 2y ago
    I use Cloudflare R2, which is free for up to 1 million writes and 10 million reads per month with no egress costs. I also use Hugo and GitHub Pages for their simplicity. I wrote about this setup here[1]. [1]: https://rednafi.com/misc/behind_the_blog/ https://rednafi.com/misc/behind_the_blog/
  - planetjones 2y ago
    I am user of dreamhost so the images get stored there. I wrote about my set-up on my blog. https://www.planetjones.net/blog/03-05-2023/relaunching-my-personal-website-as-planetjones-dot-net.html https://www.planetjones.net/blog/03-05-2023/relaunching-my-p...
ftio 2y ago
I generate the Bookmarks [1] section of my static site from the public bookmarks in my Pinboard account. Since I host with Netlify, I've written a lightweight Netlify function that looks at my Pinboard account for changes. If there are changes, it simply re-runs the static site build. During the build, Lektor, the static site generator, runs a custom plugin I've written that generates the link blog page from the Pinboard API. Definitely more work than it was "worth", but as a person who doesn't get to write lots of code every day, it was a blast putting it all together. 1. https://www.ft.io/bookmarks/ https://www.ft.io/bookmarks/
- rednafi 2y ago
  This pattern of: 1. polling for external changes somewhere 2. updating some pages on a static site (by incorporating the changes from step 1) and rebuilding it is incredibly powerful. It allows us to make a static site behave almost like a read-only dynamic one. There needs to be a name for this—it’s hard to discuss it without one.
  - rmnclmnt 2y ago
    This pattern is used all over the place, and for good reason (especially when people get their minds on combining CI/CD and static deployments). Simon Willison groked the name « Baked Data »: even though it was in the context of Datasette (which requires a backend to run but the SQLite db is embedded and read-only), it is pretty safe the term can be applied for static websites also!
    - Macha 2y ago
      Hasn't it already had a name for years? A headless CMS
  - ggpsv 2y ago
    A bit like PESOS (Publish elsewhere, syndicate own site). I do this when archiving my Mastodon posts in my own static site [0]. [0]: https://garrido.io/notes/archiving-and-syndicating-mastodon-posts/ https://garrido.io/notes/archiving-and-syndicating-mastodon-...
pryelluw 2y ago
“Not turn into a content junkie, churning out slop I wouldn’t want to read myself.” What a beautiful value to have.

56 points by nurandal 2y ago

On my personal site (also built with Hugo) I post images of food I have eaten and media I have consumed. I could use Instagram, Bluesky or X but I want the content to be mine and stay mine. And I am doing it because I like to blog things not because I want the interaction on social media. https://www.planetjones.net/food.html https://www.planetjones.net/food.html https://www.planetjones.net/reviews.html https://www.planetjones.net/reviews.html

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rednafi 2y ago
Yeah, the whole point of this is tracking the progress of something, not vanity interaction. This is why I decided to leave it out of the main RSS feed to avoid spamming readers.
- marcosdumay 2y ago
  So... you want to use your blog as some kind of a log ported to the web? Yeah, most tools are built to support something different.
  - rednafi 2y ago
    Not the entire blog, just a single page, yes.
dwood_dev 2y ago
Where did you settle on for your image hosting? I like GH Pages and Hugo, but it feels dirty to put images in a git repository. At the same time, GitHub does allow 5GB per repo, so I'm torn.
- rednafi 2y ago
  I use Cloudflare R2, which is free for up to 1 million writes and 10 million reads per month with no egress costs. I also use Hugo and GitHub Pages for their simplicity. I wrote about this setup here[1]. [1]: https://rednafi.com/misc/behind_the_blog/ https://rednafi.com/misc/behind_the_blog/
- planetjones 2y ago
  I am user of dreamhost so the images get stored there. I wrote about my set-up on my blog. https://www.planetjones.net/blog/03-05-2023/relaunching-my-personal-website-as-planetjones-dot-net.html https://www.planetjones.net/blog/03-05-2023/relaunching-my-p...

ftio 2y ago

I generate the Bookmarks [1] section of my static site from the public bookmarks in my Pinboard account. Since I host with Netlify, I've written a lightweight Netlify function that looks at my Pinboard account for changes. If there are changes, it simply re-runs the static site build. During the build, Lektor, the static site generator, runs a custom plugin I've written that generates the link blog page from the Pinboard API. Definitely more work than it was "worth", but as a person who doesn't get to write lots of code every day, it was a blast putting it all together. 1. https://www.ft.io/bookmarks/ https://www.ft.io/bookmarks/

rednafi 2y ago
This pattern of: 1. polling for external changes somewhere 2. updating some pages on a static site (by incorporating the changes from step 1) and rebuilding it is incredibly powerful. It allows us to make a static site behave almost like a read-only dynamic one. There needs to be a name for this—it’s hard to discuss it without one.
- rmnclmnt 2y ago
  This pattern is used all over the place, and for good reason (especially when people get their minds on combining CI/CD and static deployments). Simon Willison groked the name « Baked Data »: even though it was in the context of Datasette (which requires a backend to run but the SQLite db is embedded and read-only), it is pretty safe the term can be applied for static websites also!
  - Macha 2y ago
    Hasn't it already had a name for years? A headless CMS
- ggpsv 2y ago
  A bit like PESOS (Publish elsewhere, syndicate own site). I do this when archiving my Mastodon posts in my own static site [0]. [0]: https://garrido.io/notes/archiving-and-syndicating-mastodon-posts/ https://garrido.io/notes/archiving-and-syndicating-mastodon-...

pryelluw 2y ago

“Not turn into a content junkie, churning out slop I wouldn’t want to read myself.” What a beautiful value to have.