Blogging Like a Hacker (2008)

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on news.ycombinator.com

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  • site-gen-rust

    Static Site generator, this time in Rust

  • Personally I made my own static site generator [1][2], which has been a lot of fun, and fairly easy to implement (you just need a solid markdown to html converter, preferrably going further than commonmark standards).

    For hosting I use the free tier of Firebase... `Firebase deploy` and Voila. You get not only free hosting but the ability to revert and free around the globe CDN. Pretty darn fast.

    [1]: https://github.com/keyle/site-gen-rust

    [2]: https://github.com/keyle/site-gen-ocaml

  • site-gen-ocaml

    Static Site generator, this time in OCaml

  • Personally I made my own static site generator [1][2], which has been a lot of fun, and fairly easy to implement (you just need a solid markdown to html converter, preferrably going further than commonmark standards).

    For hosting I use the free tier of Firebase... `Firebase deploy` and Voila. You get not only free hosting but the ability to revert and free around the globe CDN. Pretty darn fast.

    [1]: https://github.com/keyle/site-gen-rust

    [2]: https://github.com/keyle/site-gen-ocaml

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • minimum-viable-hugo

    No CSS, no JS. One static HTML page to start you off.

  • I like Hugo. It's been a gateway drug into building more interesting websites than just a blog for me. Giving you RSS feeds out of the box is a lovely bonus.

    Both my personal website https://andrew-quinn.me/ and my TIL site run on Hugo: https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/til-site/

    Most recently I used Hugo to create a backup archive of the Finnish broadcast news, plus translations, which was all in all very easy thanks to its i18n support: https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/selkouutiset-archive/

    I even gave a presentation at the local university to first year CS students who wanted to get Hugo up and running. It was a big success!

    I wrote https://github.com/Siilikuin/minimum-viable-hugo a while back to turn setting it up into a simple copy-and-paste operation. You might get some use out of it.

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