[agentgt]

I remember once someone who posted their blog and it was just a listing of markdown files in a github repository. Not even a jekyllyzed version... just a folder with date prefixed markdown and rst files.

I have to say it hit me and I was like... damn I should just do that. Forget all this blogging platforms and getting caught up in look and feel. Just write text files.

Even with Jekyll (and its variants) I got caught up on making it potentially look nice but this person just said ... f-it... let google and github figure out how to organize the content.

[rocky1138]

You might be interested to know that this is how blogs got their start. For reference, see .plan files [0].

[0] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/P/plan-file.html

[jcurbo]

See also: John Carmack's plan file updates. https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive

[bachmeier]

I've come to the conclusion that all the design stuff is a waste of time. In most cases, it doesn't impress me on other sites, and if someone cares, they can use Reader View or Pocket or something like that. Unless you are good enough to create a design that makes folks say wow, there is no benefit at all from doing so.

[kaybe]

One of the most popular German blogs, fefe's blog, only has pure html. It's perfect for testing things because it is so fast.

https://blog.fefe.de/

[drdrey]

or http://danluu.com/

[fizzychicken]

This is only slightly similar, but Ive played around with hexo to acheive a HTML only driven blog based on github hosted markdown files. Once setup and secured it is pretty much just me writing and publishing text files. https://hexo.io/ It seems to be very popular in Japan as most guides I read were google-translated Japanese blogs.

[h1d]

I just took a look around for self hosted blogs and found PostLeaf pretty slick and only has what is required without UI bloat.

[metalliqaz]

Now I'm intrigued as to what that looked like. Was he using github.io or did you have to just click through the Github source code browser? Also was he really writing some of the posts in ReStructuredText, or was that a converted output?

[agentgt]

Oh I’m sorry I missed your question earlier. It was straight to github. I think he/she had some readme for some basic instructions/about.