What’s the 2023 equivalent of GitHub Pages + Jekyll? i.e. a single folder of markdown files with minimal front matter requirements displayed in a responsive reverse chronological blog like format?
GitHub pages + Jekyll? Is it that GitHub is no longer cool? Others provide this as well, e.g. https://srht.site
watching this 👀. you can publish from any ssg to gh pages via small gh action. for ssgs i like 11ty (full-featured) and lume (super simple, deno)
Probs not considered so modern but I like eleventy for simple html + markdown https://www.11ty.dev/. Super lightweight and easy to host on netlify or vercel
https://gohugo.io is pretty easy to setup. Not sure you can use it with GitHub pages though.
my blog proofinprogress is like that, completely self-written. Here is my why after using hexo for a few years https://proofinprogress.com/posts/2022-11-29/subtractive-problem-solving.html https://github.com/TimDaub/proofinprogress.com
I’m a MkDocs Material maxi: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/ Had the least amount of problems with it from all the various static site generators I’ve used over the last decade. It has a nice blog feature too, although it’s paid
I still use GitHub Pages & Jekyll… It’s not perfect but the work to switch to something marginally better (I’m not even sure there is anything) isn’t worth it?
Probably Next.js or Astro (I still keep my blog on Jekyll)
I use gohugo.io and deploy to Cloudflare Pages for productbets.com. Cloudflare provides free bandwidth and supports building Hugo sites on git push (though you may have to specify an env variable with Hugo version)