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by fiatjaf 3985 days ago
You know you could do this as a Jekyll site, right? And then you wouldn't even need to install Jekyll, you could just put everything on GitHub and it would render it for you. Then you could let people fork and modify the links and they would have their own sites too, without even downloading anything.

Doing these with a backend is not fun at all: it is too easy to program (you know that with a node server you could do way more than a "JSON configurable personal site"), but it also consumes too much resources to run. So if you could do it without a backend, why not?

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Never used Jekyll before, thanks for the heads up. I'll look into it.
It is not that I like Jekyll, but that GitHub pages supports it -- and compiles its sites on every deploy --, so it works well.