Software and setup

So just to get started. There are a lot of writing platforms in existence. Everything to server based to static hosted solutiuons.

Most notably in my mind comes platforms such as:

• Blogger

• Medium

• Write.as

• Wordpress

• Typepad

• Jekyll

• Hugo

The list list goes on and on.

In my case the main criteria for choosing a platform were:

• Static site generation

  • Disqualifies Blogger, Medium, Write.as, Wordpress and Typepad right away.

• Support structure text formats.

  • Jekyll and Hugo are valid candidates.

• Preferably able to use orgmode to write posts.

  • Hugo has nice orgmode support.

This site is built using hugo.

Next on my list was hosting. I wanted something hosted by someone else. I work with computers all day, and didnt want to run a website on top of that as well.

I looked into:

• Github Pages

• Netlify static hosting

I started by looking at Netlify as I've used them previously and found it pretty easy to work with. Alas when, I wanted to deploy the initial setup of this, it turns out I was using a theme for Hugo that required a hugo newer than the one provided by Netlify.com.

I had been reading Hosting & Deployment on the Hugo website and found the Github Pages description less than optimal. The Host on Gitlab with using a local CI/CD pipeline with docker, was pretty nice. So thats what I went with.

In retrospective typing this, makes me realize that perhaps the same could have been done using Github Actions.

All in all I am pretty happy with the workflow around writing and publishing.

Things I will be looking into in the future:

• An about page

• Something releated to taxonomy of tags