It’s a game and a cool display of development. I thought this would be perfect for Lobste.rs.

Clearly not though judging by the downvoted. :(

I’ve recently moved from WP to Jekyll, but for different reasons than the OP. Ultimately it’s their decision what platform they use.

I can understand the maintenance argument, not with regards to WP, but WRT the stack WP sits on top of. However, the only thing they’re removing by switching to Hugo is MySQL and PHP. Two less software packages to manage, I suppose.

If maintenance is a problem, and they want to focus on writing, why self host at all? Why not go with something like Netlify or AWS Amplify?

It’s fun to tinker though. 😊

I actually just changed the license to MIT. I’m not a licensing expert (far from it!) and didn’t realise that the GPL doesn’t allow for closed source redistribution. MIT seems more permissive in that regard.

Considering what it tries to achieve that’s a good thing.

I’m totally fine diluting the meaning of framework like this.

The linked page doesn’t actually describe Simple.css as a framework, it describes it as a “classless CSS template.” I’ve made a suggestion to change the title of the link here to reflect that.

Absolutely (and thanks for posting a link to my blog! :)) it’s not great for your eyes, but it’s about giving users the choice.

I don’t use dark mode 90% of the time, but from time to time it’s nice to have the ability to switch if you want to.

Plus, some people prefer it. :)

I used a script to export every post and all images to markdown. Then it was just a case of adding frontmatter to the posts. Pages I just did manually.

Not the author, but there are plugins for exporting from WP to Jekyll, like this one.

Agreed on both counts. That was the rationale for the change.

No. I spent 30/m on the entire site - hosting, CDN and a couple of plugins.

Challenge accepted 😊 - https://gtmetrix.com/reports/kevq.uk/FxTCQvc3/

Haha you’re absolutely right, but it’s not an authentic 90s site (did emojis even exist then?) it’s just a nod to the 90s. Considering we’re in the days of the multi megabyte webpages, I think 300kb is pretty good. 😊

Although, I do like a challenge…

That doesn’t make it any less useful.

What’s a better measure? I’m open to suggestions.

I’ve had that in the past, where “comments” are pulled from multiple sources, like Mastodon and Twitter via Webmention. But I didn’t want all the noise on my blog posts, and I didn’t want to have to manage them (they come through as WP comments). This way, there’s a platform for people to discuss the post, without the extra headache for me of managing comments.

HN or here would be great alternatives to GitHub Issues, but I think it would have to be HN rather than here, as the topics are VERY focused here (that’s a good thing), so a general life update, for example, wouldn’t be appropriate to post here. So there would effectively be no comments on that post.

Once I redo my blog, I want the comments section to be links to places like twitter, mastodon, maybe here or HN, where there’s an easy way to dialog

That doesn’t sound like it follows. If someone on Twitter comments on your blog will that be reflected to Mastodon? Will someone who then replies on Mastodon be able to reply? I suppose it’s true in the strict definition of dialog (i.e. two participants) for communication between you and one other person at a time but it sounds as if you’ll end up with a load of distinct views on different subsets of the comments that people interact with.

A few people have told me about Utterances since I published this post. It looks really cool. I deliberately wanted the comments to be a separate thing from the blog though, so I wouldn’t want to use a tool like this to pull them in.

Also Gitalk

I get what you’re saying, but I wouldn’t call it a “dependency” personally. It’s a nice to have thing that I offer to people who want to use it. If it goes away (doubtful) it’s no big deal.

It was a mixture of trawling the Internet, and making my own in Inkscape/GIMP.

Managing them - replying to them, filtering spam, moderation etc. I want people to be able to provide feedback though, so by having a guestbook and not a comment form on every page, hopefully it’s a nice balance.

I’ll edit that post to include the comment. Thanks!

Absolutely right, Henrique gets a mention on my license page.

A bit surprising how many sites have the same thing: duplicated information between “Home” and “About”. I would merge “Home” with either “About” or “Publications”. In Publications - first two are 404.

The links in the menu are almost impossible to read. For me (iOS on dark theme) shows 2 very similar shades of orange. The general orange colour is also difficult to read with the dark background.