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My annoyances with Jekyll from (http://substancehq.com/why-substance http://substancehq.com/why-substance) I used to be a happy jekyll user for a long time

My annoyances with Jekyll from (http://substancehq.com/why-substance http://substancehq.com/why-substance) I used to be a happy jekyll user for a long time. But, bloggin using jekyll is frustrating when you have to make a lot of minor edits. The commit → push dance is too much while making small edits. Also, I don't know a straight way of doing jekyll redirects and allowing the use of tags/categories. Substance fixes those issues because it is dynamic I sometimes wonder what age we are living in, when we (the tech bloggers) use a static site generator for our blogs. Jekyll's main strength has been that it's very very flexible, I've tried to build Substance to give the most flexibility to the users without complicating things. Substance (http://substancehq.com/ http://substancehq.com/) is a simple blogging engine / site builder without any fluff. I created it to replace Jekyll for myself. Hope others find it useful. Also, it has ability to add custom data collections easily. If you want to build a simple site, this comes in very handy.

drivebyacct2 14y ago
It's a service? It doesn't really seem to be in the same category...
- minhajuddin 14y ago
  Yes, it is a hosted blogging engine. You can sign up and use it with a single click. Just enter a blog title on the home page form and hit the 'create blog' button, that's all.
dr_win 14y ago
I'm also a heavy Jekyll user. I work on a Jekyll addon, which will allow live site edits. Imagine static site generator executed on client-side: https://github.com/darwin/terraform https://github.com/darwin/terraform The main trick is to use PhantomJS to pre-generate static site for initial serving.
- unicornporn 14y ago
  Fantastic, that would be a dream come true. A Jekyll site that I could update even when I'm not at my own machine.
  - lukebaker 14y ago
    If you keep your Jekyll site on GitHub, you can edit your site in your browser with Prose. I imagine you use GitHub for its Jekyll building and mirror the built site elsewhere. http://prose.io/about.html http://prose.io/about.html

drivebyacct2 14y ago

It's a service? It doesn't really seem to be in the same category...

minhajuddin 14y ago
Yes, it is a hosted blogging engine. You can sign up and use it with a single click. Just enter a blog title on the home page form and hit the 'create blog' button, that's all.

dr_win 14y ago

I'm also a heavy Jekyll user. I work on a Jekyll addon, which will allow live site edits. Imagine static site generator executed on client-side: https://github.com/darwin/terraform https://github.com/darwin/terraform The main trick is to use PhantomJS to pre-generate static site for initial serving.

unicornporn 14y ago
Fantastic, that would be a dream come true. A Jekyll site that I could update even when I'm not at my own machine.
- lukebaker 14y ago
  If you keep your Jekyll site on GitHub, you can edit your site in your browser with Prose. I imagine you use GitHub for its Jekyll building and mirror the built site elsewhere. http://prose.io/about.html http://prose.io/about.html