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Timo Geusch
@tgeusch@social.vivaldi.net
mastodon 4.7.3+vivaldimodPolyglot software engineer and manager, occasional functional programmer and scourge of anything mechanical. Owner of my opinions.
Spends too much time in #emacs, herds #cats, plays with #motorcycles and #cars, occasionally touches a #guitar and dabbles a bit in video and #photography.
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Joined December 01, 2022
Fledgling YooToobe channel (cars and motorcycles):
Somewhat dormant programming blog:
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I've not really posted anything on my #blog for a while, and one of the reasons was that every time I tried to, I ended up having to work on catching up on a bunch of #hugo changes before the blog would build because inevitable on one of my four "main" machines, the blog wouldn't build due to some backward-incompatible changes.
Any recommendation for a static site generator that takes backward compatibility a bit more seriously? I've used #Jekyll in the past but I haven't looked into the state of that ecosystem for years.
My strong preference would be for a static site generator written in #clojure, #ClojureScript, #CommonLisp or #emacslisp. Preferably one that integrates well with #isso for comments.
Not interested in a more "dynamic" system like Ghost - I moved away from WordPress quite a while ago to reduce the amount of maintenance and attack surface, and I don't want to go back.
This can’t be said often enough. In the long run, the important part is the ability to understand and solve problems, not one’s intimate knowledge of wibbleflip. @QueerMatters@mstdn.social
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@Nundrum@theatl.social thanks - Cryogen was on my radar already, so I'll definitely also keep it in mind.
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@iSabreman@mastodon.online @eff@mastodon.social I dunno, it’s almost like the wellbeing might just be a useful pretext? But of course, nobody would use it for that, so perish that thought.
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@vindarel@framapiaf.org that's what I do on my build server, but I edit the blog on a bunch of different machines, including several that use rolling Linux distributions.
I know I can pin the hugo version in homebrew, and can probably figure out how to do the same in cachyos, but that almost feels like work.
Plus, I do like to get improvements as the software improves, as long as they don't come at the expense of breaking stuff.
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@narthur@hachyderm.io @11ty@neighborhood.11ty.dev definitely something to look into. How was your experience moving to 11ty? While my blog doesn't have that many posts, ease of migration would be useful.
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@narthur@hachyderm.io @11ty@neighborhood.11ty.dev that does sound promising. One of the reasons I stuck with Hugo for so long was because I have theme that I like and modified, plus there's always a cost to change that could be used to blog more instead.
Sounds like you've pretty much got a similar setup to mine - my home server has a cronjob that runs everynight and builds/updates the blog, and I want to keep that pipeline in place as it's a nice and simple way to propagate all necessary changes.
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@narthur@hachyderm.io @11ty@neighborhood.11ty.dev that's fair and it sounds familiar.
I'm not really a web developer so CSS is something that I tend to struggle with a bit, but I think it's still something I need to learn more about. And theming is probably the biggest hurdle for me to migrate to a different static site generator.
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@borkdude@mastodon.social thank you, I'll have a look. At first glance it looks very interesting!
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@kf@sonomu.club thanks for sharing your article. Very interesting, especially as I tend to do a lot of my blogging in Emacs already