hexanal

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   by hexanal 5y ago

   It's fun to see articles like that being posted on HN; it's reassuring, in a way: I've been building my own SSG ( https://github.com/hexanal/fredmercy-blog ) to be "simple but powerful", and by
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   by hexanal 6y ago

   Everybody seems to be trying that right now! I haven't formally studied computer science nor programming, so it's very hard for me, but I wanted to build a set of tools that would eventually allow for what I call "block-stitc
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   by hexanal 6y ago

   I'm doing the same thing but I wonder if I should even write something about it, hehe Seeing all those HN posts about new static website generators and then your post makes me think that the important thing here is the concept of it, r
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   by hexanal 6y ago

   To echo what the other replies are saying: mine has been running on a DigitalOcean droplet since early 2019 and I only had to reboot it once. It syncs everything, the iOS app and web dashboard are adequate. I would recommend it (but I haven
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   by hexanal 6y ago

   I'm asking myself the same thing! As a web developer, I'm more focused on good UX and a clear UI than the technology I use to get there; but these days it seems the tools are getting way too complicated to use in most situations.
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   by hexanal 6y ago

   Super valid point. I've been a frontend dev for a while and I'm comfortable with HTML and CSS but I can definitely imagine switching to something else. The sunk-cost fallacy thing is real, though. But the complexity arises from wa