Admitting defeat - offlinemark
I’m over static site generators and am moving back to a blogging platform for normal humans. Things I don’t like about the static site generator experience: Using the command line to update my blog Working with multi-media Referencing images using Markdown sucks Dislike not being able to copy-paste screenshots from my clipboard I don’t even […]
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Interesting for me it was the opposite transition. I got tired of the friction for wordpress > click > click > click > click > write > click > click.... and so on. I did try Hugo, didn’t like the rigidness for templates, and same for Jekyll. Eventually settled on Eleventy or 11ty. I use Netlify for free hosting, SSL, and for domain name purchase. I added comments to the site via the Jamstack Comment Engine (AWS lambda) And wrote a guide on how to do it here https://thetoulbox.com/posts/guide-for-enabling-comments-on-a-netlify-hosted-static-site/ . I run my static website locally with hot-reloading to make sure, for the most part, nothing goofy gets to the web. Also, use PR review which does a deploy of the site before merging to main as a last check :). I like this set-up of using a static site because I’m typically in VSCODE so it is really easy to turn my tech notes into blog posts.
Nice, I see a lot of IHs spend more time building their blog than actually writing and think it is productive.
This post is my experience with moving from Github to Wordpress for blogging. I've been very happy with the move because it tremendously decreases the friction to write, which is important for me. I only learned that lesson after discovering Indie Hackers! The IH interface is so great that I love writing here.
I'm so curious what you all are using for blogging platforms.