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I appreciate his argument about tooling lasting a while, but for me the most important thing is the durability of the content format (markdown), and, secondly,
by bbkane 2y ago
I appreciate his argument about tooling lasting a while, but for me the most important thing is the durability of the content format (markdown), and, secondly, owning the domain name.
If, for example, their posts were stored as Word documents or Google Docs, they would have a far fewer options for building and deploying their blog.
But, because theyre're using the (comparatively) simple markdown format, they have a lot more options.
I do something similar and I've migrated my blog from Jekyll + Github Pages to Zola + Netlify without too many issues. If Zola or Netlify go away, I'm confident I can migrate again easily.
- fragmede 2y agoI don’t know about more, just different. Google App Script can interact with Google docs, and wiring it up so that you can make a Google doc on your phone and have it auto publish. You could also setup such a thing with markdown, just with different apps, (hopefully not via ssh) but that really seems like 6 of one, half dozen of another. If that's a use case you want to support because of convenience, I really don't see a reason to use one over the other, other than personal preference.
- bbkane 2y agoPractically I think you're correct, but I personally prefer owning the files instead of keeping them stored on Google (though of course you could set up automation to export on a schedule or something).