Ask HN: Is Jekyll on GitHub a good solution for hosting a website?

• flow-pipeline

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  A set of tools and examples to run a flow-pipeline (sFlow, NetFlow)

  

• Hugo

  548 72,452 9.8 Go

  The world’s fastest framework for building websites.

  

For hassle free website/pages, I've been really liking https://gohugo.io cause there aren't dependencies or complex setups/installs. The template system had a bit of a learning curve.

Netlify and Cloudflare also have free hosting tiers you can deploy with.

https://www.netlify.com

• InfluxDB

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  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.

  

• linguist

  40 11,804 8.7 Ruby

  Language Savant. If your repository's language is being reported incorrectly, send us a pull request!

  

I have found Jekyll on GitHub to be a pretty good solution overall. I put this Makefile in the git repo to make my workflow simple:

https://gist.github.com/jasone/b0208286b44208b705156fdf046ca...

The one issue I'm frustrated with is that syntax highlighting for code blocks depends on GitHub's blessing:

https://github.com/github/linguist/issues/2598

For example, this page from my blog highlights OCaml code, but not the language I'm developing (Hemlock):

https://branchtaken.com/blog/2021/11/15/string-formatting-in...

Given the low likelihood of Hemlock sweeping the software world before this becomes a critical presentation issue, I'm probably going to switch my workflow to pre-generated html.

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