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I used to think so too. But no static hosting sites give you access to access logs, easily anyway. Github Pages, no. Netlify, you get server-side analytics for $9/mo but you need to upgrade to an enterprise plan just to get the actual logs. Cloudflare Pages require you to set up a full on sync.
All I want is to be able to occasionally run some duckdb query over the logs.
So I gave up after trying these all and now just run on my own server. One extra benefit of this is that subdomains are a piece of cake (especially with Caddy, which is so much nicer than nginx in terms of automatic TLS). Here's my Caddyfile: https://github.com/eatonphil/eatonphil.com/blob/main/Caddyfi....
Having such easy control of DNS and also redirects at the server level is pretty convenient. I haven't done it on my personal domain yet but on work domains I set up aliases like slack.$company.com, discord.$company.com, all of which are just shortlinks to links that are easy to forget.
Also, put down Markdown and give our Scroll a try: https://scroll.pub
It now powers sites like my own blog (https://breckyunits.com/), knowledge bases like PLDB.com, and our first new public domain daily newspaper called the Long Beach Pub (https://longbeach.pub/1-3-2023.html).
Also, put down Markdown and give our Scroll a try: https://scroll.pub
It now powers sites like my own blog (https://breckyunits.com/), knowledge bases like PLDB.com, and our first new public domain daily newspaper called the Long Beach Pub (https://longbeach.pub/1-3-2023.html).
OK, so I broke my own blog many years ago, wordpress, hated it. I like this blog style. I was using bashblog, but I want to give this a shot.
I am apparently a moron.
I cloned the git repo. https://github.com/kevquirk/startablog It is all markdown. OK, I get a markdown converter for my linux server, but wait... the actual posts are in _posts/YYYY, so there must be some kind of script that goes through this thing and generates html... I am at a loss for what that is or where it is located?
> What if you want introduce some diagramming or Latex rendering in your blog ?
Then you are starting to step beyond what I was referring to as “a simple blog” (text, formatting, maybe some pictures or SVG).
Though there are options that don't require a CI/CD pipeline. Depending on what Latext you need MathJax may do the trick (just include the JS in your standard page header, and drop the Latex code straight in inline where needed as per their standard example: https://jsbin.com/?html,output. There are similar charting options like mermaid too. I don't know of inline charting options off the top of my head but I expect several exist.
I've used both, and they make it really complex to move away. After finally biting the bullet and migrating[1] from Wordpress to Jekyll, there was a lot of work involved in getting the Wordpress exported files even barely presentable.
[1] https://gitlab.com/engmark/engmark.gitlab.io/
I still have a Blogger site just because I am not sure how to export all the data without days of work to copy the content, images and reformat everything to go to something like WordPress or markdown [0].
[0]: https://github.com/Cristy94/markdown-blog
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