What’s Your Blogging Setup?

I use Jekyll [1] to build my blog (link can be found on my profile). I have a bunch of custom plugins written in Ruby.

I am currently hosting my blog with BunnyCDN [2], but for a static blog you can go with any host basically.

Most of my content is written in Markdown [3] or Jupyter Notebooks [4], with some org-mode [5] sprinkled in. I am rendering the Jupyter Notebooks to HTML with a custom Jekyll plugin I wrote.

For comments I am collecting them with a simple CGI script and processing them locally on my laptop. Spam filtering is done with Paul Graham's algorithm [6]. I then bake the approved comments into the HTML so that it can be viewed without Javascript.

[1]: https://jekyllrb.com/

[2]: https://bunny.net/

[3]: https://commonmark.org/

[4]: https://jupyter.org/

[5]: https://orgmode.org/

[6]: http://paulgraham.com/spam.html

Gatsby + Github pages. I run `yarn deploy` and it publishes the built version of the Gatsby app to the `published` branch and Github automatically updates. The `main` branch of the repo remains intact for editing content.

1. Very basic self-written static site generator using Python, Jinja, and Markdown.

2. Netlify free tier, pulling from a GitHub repo. I build them on my local machine and just push the static output to a public repo. My working folder with drafts etc is a private repo.

No JavaScript. I have a contact form that uses Netlify's forms feature, but even that can be done away with if I move sometime later.

It will probably be Lektor. I haven't actually blogged anything yet, still putting things together.

Getting the blog tags plugin to work on Windows seems to be an exercise in pain.

GitHub pages and GitHub. Super minimal, don’t need to install anything, and easy to export the whole repo.

Super simple. For shoto.io we use

- Jekyll + TailwindCSS

- Github Actions

jekyll + neflify. Previously github pages, but we need to be able to add specific HTTP header which neflify supports.