Show HN: Md2blog – A zero-config static site generator for dev blogs

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  • markblog

    The way to blog with markdown.

    We did a lot the same way (even using Deno!), but we did themes a little differently. I used custom CSS-files, but your approach is even simpler.

    Not to detract from Md2blog, I just want to add it to the converstaion for anyone interested in these things :) Keep up!

    [1]: https://github.com/olaven/markblog

  • docker-texlive-thin

    A thin texlive installation in docker.

    I recently wrote a few documents in latex after ignoring it for over a decade. Trying to get a working setup with latex + bibtex + a few custom styles was quite annoying. I can appreciate that people who just want to author a document with some equations in latex but who are not programmers or avid command line users might find the entire experience of getting a tolerable latex workflow set up very challenging. I guess that might be partly why https://www.overleaf.com/ has a business model! Hide all the package management and command line tooling nonsense behind a simple web interface.

    I was very excited to find Thomas Weise had wrangled latex and a Tex Live installation into a docker container: https://github.com/thomasWeise/docker-texlive-thin

    Another useful tool is latexmk, which is already installed inside the docker-texlive-thin container : https://mg.readthedocs.io/latexmk.html

    By containing the madness of latex tooling and package management with docker and some volume mounts, I could have a reasonably sane build process to manufacture PDFs from latex source files.

    I don't recommend md2blog add mandatory dependencies on anything related to latex. Another way to think about it might be offering optional latex support through some plugin mechanism that doesn't know anything about latex. But that path sure won't produce anything resembling a "zero config" static site generator.

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  • dgoffredo

    Always interesting to see what someone else came up with for their static site generator. If I had known about yours, I might have used it instead of writing mine: https://github.com/dgoffredo/dgoffredo.github.io

  • Hugo

    The world’s fastest framework for building websites.

    What do you think about Hugo [1]? It supports markdown.

    [1] https://gohugo.io/

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