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First they came for the developer ecosystem, but I did not speak up, as I was just a publisher. Then... Wanna be in control of "your" blog? Run your own softwa

First they came for the developer ecosystem, but I did not speak up, as I was just a publisher. Then... Wanna be in control of "your" blog? Run your own software on your own server. Ghost, Gatsby, etc. to the rescue.

StavrosK 8y ago
I run my blog with Lektor on Netlify (no affiliation with either, except I recently became a Lektor co-maintainer) and deploying literally gives me happy feelings. It's amazing to be able to just deploy your blog wherever you want, and Netlify have done a great job at being a deployment target.
- feistypharit 8y ago
  I used to live lektor, but thought it died. Hope to see it start moving again.
  - StavrosK 8y ago
    I don't think it died, plus it's pretty feature-complete as is, I've never had difficulty doing anything. The upside is that it's much easier to use than Hugo, which I never managed to get running. I haven't played with many other alternatives, if anyone knows of a static site generator that isn't specifically blog-oriented (i.e. something with an agnostic model), please let me know.
    - Keats 8y ago
      Hugo is pretty agnostic for the content but is a pain to use imo. I'm working on Zola (https://www.getzola.org/ https://www.getzola.org/) in order to have something simpler. It doesn't have all the features (eg multiple language sites) of Hugo yet but it's getting there. Working for things other than blog was very important, so you can implement something like gitbook in 3 small templates: https://zola-book.netlify.com/chapter1/ https://zola-book.netlify.com/chapter1/ (source at https://github.com/getzola/book https://github.com/getzola/book).
    - Kihashi 8y ago
      > if anyone knows of a static site generator that isn't specifically blog-oriented (i.e. something with an agnostic model), please let me know. Is that not what Jekyll is? or maybe it's become more blog-centric since I used it.
      - StavrosK 8y ago
        Last I checked it was pretty blog-centric, but I didn't try in depth, I saw that somewhere and it put me off. Is it not?
r3bl 8y ago
It's not directly related to the story, but Write.as federates the content to Mastodon and others in the fediverse.
bishala 8y ago
or just plain old Wordpress.
gilbertmire 8y ago
I created a few blogs with Publii CMS and GitHub Pages - now I decide about my websites, no Medium or other SASS servie.
- marc_io 8y ago
  This. Publii is a nice, cheap and simple solution to self host your blog.
franzwong 8y ago
The sad thing is Medium doesn't even support syntax highlight. Edit: I mean Medium
- dguo 8y ago
  Even worse, the workaround of embedding a GitHub gist has a strange limitation of not being able to specify a particular file in the gist. So each code block needs to be a separate gist: https://stackoverflow.com/q/40809530/1481479 https://stackoverflow.com/q/40809530/1481479

StavrosK 8y ago

I run my blog with Lektor on Netlify (no affiliation with either, except I recently became a Lektor co-maintainer) and deploying literally gives me happy feelings. It's amazing to be able to just deploy your blog wherever you want, and Netlify have done a great job at being a deployment target.

feistypharit 8y ago
I used to live lektor, but thought it died. Hope to see it start moving again.
- StavrosK 8y ago
  I don't think it died, plus it's pretty feature-complete as is, I've never had difficulty doing anything. The upside is that it's much easier to use than Hugo, which I never managed to get running. I haven't played with many other alternatives, if anyone knows of a static site generator that isn't specifically blog-oriented (i.e. something with an agnostic model), please let me know.
  - Keats 8y ago
    Hugo is pretty agnostic for the content but is a pain to use imo. I'm working on Zola (https://www.getzola.org/ https://www.getzola.org/) in order to have something simpler. It doesn't have all the features (eg multiple language sites) of Hugo yet but it's getting there. Working for things other than blog was very important, so you can implement something like gitbook in 3 small templates: https://zola-book.netlify.com/chapter1/ https://zola-book.netlify.com/chapter1/ (source at https://github.com/getzola/book https://github.com/getzola/book).
  - Kihashi 8y ago
    > if anyone knows of a static site generator that isn't specifically blog-oriented (i.e. something with an agnostic model), please let me know. Is that not what Jekyll is? or maybe it's become more blog-centric since I used it.
    - StavrosK 8y ago
      Last I checked it was pretty blog-centric, but I didn't try in depth, I saw that somewhere and it put me off. Is it not?

r3bl 8y ago

It's not directly related to the story, but Write.as federates the content to Mastodon and others in the fediverse.

bishala 8y ago

or just plain old Wordpress.

gilbertmire 8y ago

I created a few blogs with Publii CMS and GitHub Pages - now I decide about my websites, no Medium or other SASS servie.

marc_io 8y ago
This. Publii is a nice, cheap and simple solution to self host your blog.

franzwong 8y ago

The sad thing is Medium doesn't even support syntax highlight. Edit: I mean Medium

dguo 8y ago
Even worse, the workaround of embedding a GitHub gist has a strange limitation of not being able to specify a particular file in the gist. So each code block needs to be a separate gist: https://stackoverflow.com/q/40809530/1481479 https://stackoverflow.com/q/40809530/1481479