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I have a very similar setup, but I went a step further by writing a custom Obsidian plugin that handles compressing assets / transforming frontmatter / pushing the bundle up to my Github blog repo. Github has an automated action that then uses Pelican (a python based static site generator) to convert to HTML and deploys it to my VPS where it is served by Caddy. Makes it very easy to have a WYSIWYG interface, the blog pages look basically identical to Obsidian. https://mordenstar.com/blog/obsidian-to-pelican-exporter Pelican static site generator: https://github.com/getpelican/pelican

I swapped away from Wordpress to Pelican, a static site generator written in Python. The theme is a heavily customized version of Octapress - and its really performant with zero third-party dependencies / network requests. Plus I like that I can literally click a button in Obsidian which formats a note, compresses/optimizes the media, and pushes it up to my website. Frictionless blog posting FTW. https://github.com/getpelican/pelican https://mordenstar.com Though... recently I've been thinking about swapping over to Astro because the grass is always greener.

That's why I use Pelican as a static site generator with Github.com. https://github.com/getpelican/pelican

For me it was the license that made me not pick it: https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/issues/1397. A while ago I was picking a new SSG and I would have preferred something written in Python so I can hack on it more easily. I ended up moving on because of the license. I am now very happily using Hugo.

(Not-so)-fun fact - the source of Markdeep is a single 5000 line long javascript file :( [1] I wanted to integrate it with my Pelican[2] workflow but I'm not touching that with a 10-foot pole. Why javascript projects tend to be this way? 1 - https://github.com/morgan3d/markdeep/blob/master/1.09/markde... 2 - https://github.com/getpelican/pelican

I don't want to bash or put down anyone, but frankly I don't see any point with Makesite.py. But, why do we have a toy project that openly admits that it reinvents the wheel on the first page of HN? Makesite.py is "sold" as an alternative to Jekyll for people who prefer Python. Yet, it completely fails to mention Pelican [1]. Why should I bother with this instead of going with the featureful and well-tested Pelican? [1] https://github.com/getpelican/pelican

The slow part was mostly syntax highlighting and that was at least 3 years ago. Looking at https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/issues/1326 it seems live reload as I mean it (without hard-refresh of the page) is only available through a plugin. > On the other hand, would love to take a peek at your static site generator, if there is such a difference :) Sure: https://github.com/Keats/gutenberg It is going to change name this week or next week though, gutenberg was not original enough :(

Coming from Python I like Pelican a lot. It also looks like there is an active development going on: https://github.com/getpelican/pelican I am still wondering, why the last release was made over 18 month ago.

I used to have a WordPress-based blog. It was indeed a nightmare to keep up to date, unless a bit after version 2, where they included the option of automatic updates, and the whole thing was a bit more manageable. Not because it was too much of a problem before (download the compressed file, uncompress, move to the correct folder), but because sometimes an update came out and I didn't notice. Had malware installed once, was a nightmare to get rid of. For a variety of reasons, the blog crashed and when I started a new one, I chose Pelican[1]. Haven't looked back. [1] https://github.com/getpelican/pelican (linking to the github repository because the main site happens to be down https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/issues/2079).

There's a popular static site generator called Pelican. https://github.com/getpelican/pelican

Pelican is another Python-based static site generator with a large userbase[0]. It has these features plus a few more years worth of development, in many cases adapting from an original author's narrow set of use cases to fit more general needs (that seems like how these pieces of software tend to evolve). It has a kind community, lots more good development plans, and many useful plugins. I believe a lot of people pass it by, simply because it still needs some help putting its best foot forward[1]. 0: https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/ 1: https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/issues/1065#issuecomme...

Take a look at Susy for layout, bit more flexible than Bootstrap: https://github.com/oddbird/susy Also for static site generators take a look at: https://middlemanapp.com/ (Ruby) http://gohugo.io/ (Go) https://github.com/getpelican/pelican (Python) When you need to go beyond static sites and take a look at the web frameworks - Ruby on Rails is the obvious one, but I reckon that Meteor (https://www.meteor.com/) could be a good bet now that it has matured. Might save you a lot of time when compared to RoR for certain tasks.

Some work was done here : https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/issues/224#issuecommen...

I use Pelican[1] (Python) SSG and they are adding (have added?) a feature to skip articles that have not been touched. That makes compilation really fast. [1] https://github.com/getpelican/pelican

Use Pelican then. It's built on Python. https://github.com/getpelican/pelican