Jekyll VS Nanoc

A few popular examples of static site generators include Hugo, Jekyll, and VuePress.

While WordPress is the obvious way to go, WordPress can turn into sort of a pain in the ass over the long term. I’m planning on turning my decaying blogs into static generated sites. You might just start with one of those, such as Jekyll.

I use a liquid template in Jekyll to generate my feed. I added some of the builtin filter functions to strip excess whitespace (strip) and to escape the characters (xml_escape) to be XML-compliant.

❸ The Jekyll -- https://jekyllrb.com/ theme I'm using is minima 2.5.1 -- https://rubygems.org/gems/minima/versions/2.5.1 , I modified the footer.html file to include the plugin snippet as shown:

Jekyll is a simple blog-aware static site generator used for creating personal websites, blogs, documentation websites, corporate websites, etc. Jekyll was built with the Ruby programming language, and it uses the liquid templating engine as its templating engine. Jekyll is also the engine that powers GitHub pages.

If it works for you, I think it's a great idea to keep your ideas on track. When it comes to hosting a devlog, Discord seems like a odd choice to make regular "posts", I'd personally just setup a free blog or a Jekyll site and maybe using someting like Github Pages to host it for free. Just make sure you're not spending more time writing posts and updates than actually working on the game. The devlog should complement and motivate the game's development, not replace it!

Sounds like a semi-static website to me. Take a look at Jekyll, or any other static site generator, if you have a minute or ten. They allow you to put together and maintain a CMS-like setup with plain HTML, CSS or Markdown.

Jekyll

I use Jekyll, hosted on github Pages (for free). I find that it works extremely well for blogging code and math, as well as for creating a personal home page.

In my Jekyll install I’ve got a _cards symbolic link to my _posts directory, and in my _config.yml I’ve got a defaults section that looks like this:

When we decided to open-source our blog and docs, we were spoilt for choices. Today there are multiple well-supported and fully-featured frameworks for open-source content creation. Some of the options that we considered were Ghost, Jekyll, Hugo, Nanoc, and Gatsby. There are even more frameworks beyond these, and each tool has its pros and cons. Which one do we recommend? Well, we don’t. The best tool for you is the one that fulfills your requirements.

My websites use a static site generator, that means I have folders of Markdown files and they get converted by this program to HTML. (I'm using nanoc for nearly a decade, but other generators work fine. I like Ruby, so that's why I never tried any of the new JS stuff.) I don't just hit publish on my whole Zettelkasten, but that would work as well if you point your static site generator to your note archive.

Last time I was evaluating static site generators, Dimples and Nanoc both stood out for this recent-updates reason, among other personal criteria.

https://github.com/waferbaby/dimples

https://nanoc.ws/