[sodimel]

You can also write txt files to blog, you don't even have to worry about formatting, and search engines are able to generate titles and descriptions for you (source: I got a txt file somewhat popular on hn a few years ago, and google decided to index it very quickly, and generate a title & a small description).

I posted a txt "blog" post just a few hours ago just here: https://misc.l3m.in/txt/raw_txt.txt

And here's a list of all the blog posts: https://misc.l3m.in/txt/

[barbs]

That's great. Really reduces the friction and yak-shaving - no need to mess about with layouts or colour schemes or fonts.

[sodimel]

Absolutely, I created this txt blog to prove a point to a friend that you can get started to blogging in seconds instead of minutes if you really wanted to.

[mamonoleechi]

is the bash script you use to generate the website public?

i like this minimal fast approach to blogging (also loves bash scripts).

[sodimel]

Yes, although no link points to it :)

Here's the file:

https://misc.l3m.in/txt/createfile.sh

I use it like this:

    ./createfile.sh file_name  # without the extension!

I then edit the file using vim, save it, and it's published :)

(the three first bytes the bash script write to the txt file is the BOM, used by the browser to know that it's dealing with utf-8 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark)