[julianlam]

The HN zeitgeist (at least as of 2021) was to use a static site generator like Hugo or Jekyll. Why would we want to use Nym — speaking as someone who doesn't use either, that is.

When the itch to "small b blog" (love the term, by the way) came around, I built my own blogging frontend utilising GitHub Gists as the data store[1]. It's been working great so far, and uses basically no resources.

[1] https://devnull.land/github-gist-blog

[Eupraxias]

Honest question: does anyone else open notepad and start typing when they want to make a new webpage?

I have been making website and pages since 1998, and have never done it another way.

[asdff]

Likewise but with nano for html syntax highlighting. Workflow is write file then reload my browser window. I'm working on a personal website with my resume and projects listed and such in plain html without any css and I'm struggling to imagine why I would want anything more complicated, short of sexier window dressing perhaps or as a proof of work itself that I know how to fiddle with the latest webdev libraries. With plain jane html I can embed images and hyperlinks and format text into nice little bullet points or however. The entire site is about 600kb so far, images included. What more could I possibly want that isn't just cruft?

[MrVandemar]

Yes. Well, I use vim, but the principle is the same.

[Eupraxias]

Me too, actually!

[devonallie]

I write all my posts in Obsidian and export them to Hugo and it’s fantastic!

[philipwhiuk]

Honestly given HackerNews I was wondering if that was the actual rock at first.

[zote]

Wouldn't adding Frontmatter to your markdown be a possible alternative to multiple files per gist to store metadata

[jayfae]

Replied to the wrong message - but I did something similar here at https://www.jaynicolsmith.com/ (its still messy) - followed a tutorial somewhere and it processes my obsidian.md vault, make a note - push to git - tada - you can steal anything i have used for this from here https://github.com/Jayziv/summer-project

[julianlam]

Hey, thanks for reading! That is possibly a solution I could take. At the time I was focused mainly on getting something shipped asap.

It's been working well so far, although I did run into that issue of having more than 30 posts, so the oldest ones have already fallen off. Oops!