[michaelfm1211]

No one needs 100,000 LOC for a blog. A while back I wrote a blog generator for myself that took one markdown file per post and a template and turned it into a directory of static HTML files. The whole thing is 46 lines of shell script. The only dependency is a markdown parser.

[jakelazaroff]

I truly mean no offense by this: do you think that has something to do with why Josh’s blog has more readers than yours by probably many orders of magnitude?

[meiraleal]

He has way less readers than an almost infinite amount of blogs with 1/10 the lines of code so your argument proves nothing. And today Josh is losing a lot of readers that can't *READ* his blog. Because it is terribly developed, although it looks shiny (when it unfreezes).

[jakelazaroff]

My argument is that Josh has a lot of readers because it's clear that he puts a lot of time and effort into writing a great blog, and the code plays an important part. Obviously code isn't crucial to writing any successful blog (although in Josh's case it is) but my guess is that most of the people who see their hacked-up-and-spit-out homegrown blogging system as a positive put a similar amount of effort into that content. (See also "static gen basin": https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19/)

Anyway, you seem to have an axe to grind here, so I'm ducking out. Have a nice day!

[cr125rider]

I’d rather learn from the person who simply solved the problem than the person who made an unusable mess. I don’t know Josh and will pass on his blog.