[HN Gopher] Link Blog in a Static Site
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       Link Blog in a Static Site
        
       Author : nurandal
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2025-01-09 07:24 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (rednafi.com)
        
       | planetjones wrote:
       | On my personal site (also built with Hugo) I post images of food
       | I have eaten and media I have consumed. I could use Instagram,
       | Bluesky or X but I want the content to be mine and stay mine. And
       | I am doing it because I like to blog things not because I want
       | the interaction on social media.
       | 
       | https://www.planetjones.net/food.html
       | 
       | https://www.planetjones.net/reviews.html
        
         | rednafi wrote:
         | Yeah, the whole point of this is tracking the progress of
         | something, not vanity interaction. This is why I decided to
         | leave it out of the main RSS feed to avoid spamming readers.
        
           | marcosdumay wrote:
           | So... you want to use your blog as some kind of a log ported
           | to the web?
           | 
           | Yeah, most tools are built to support something different.
        
       | ftio wrote:
       | I generate the Bookmarks [1] section of my static site from the
       | public bookmarks in my Pinboard account.
       | 
       | Since I host with Netlify, I've written a lightweight Netlify
       | function that looks at my Pinboard account for changes. If there
       | are changes, it simply re-runs the static site build. During the
       | build, Lektor, the static site generator, runs a custom plugin
       | I've written that generates the link blog page from the Pinboard
       | API.
       | 
       | Definitely more work than it was "worth", but as a person who
       | doesn't get to write lots of code every day, it was a blast
       | putting it all together.
       | 
       | 1. https://www.ft.io/bookmarks/
        
         | rednafi wrote:
         | This pattern of:
         | 
         | 1. polling for external changes somewhere
         | 
         | 2. updating some pages on a static site (by incorporating the
         | changes from step 1) and rebuilding it
         | 
         | is incredibly powerful. It allows us to make a static site
         | behave almost like a read-only dynamic one. There needs to be a
         | name for this--it's hard to discuss it without one.
        
           | rmnclmnt wrote:
           | This pattern is used all over the place, and for good reason
           | (especially when people get their minds on combining CI/CD
           | and static deployments).
           | 
           | Simon Willison groked the name << Baked Data >>: even though
           | it was in the context of Datasette (which requires a backend
           | to run but the SQLite db is embedded and read-only), it is
           | pretty safe the term can be applied for static websites also!
        
           | ggpsv wrote:
           | A bit like PESOS (Publish elsewhere, syndicate own site). I
           | do this when archiving my Mastodon posts in my own static
           | site [0].
           | 
           | [0]: https://garrido.io/notes/archiving-and-syndicating-
           | mastodon-...
        
           | dgl wrote:
           | One name for it is PESOS[1] ("Publish Elsewhere, Syndicate
           | (to your) Own Site"), although that doesn't necessitate it be
           | static, but requiring it be static is mixing the
           | implementation with the user experience anyway.
           | 
           | [1]: https://indieweb.org/PESOS
        
       | pryelluw wrote:
       | "Not turn into a content junkie, churning out slop I wouldn't
       | want to read myself."
       | 
       | What a beautiful value to have.
        
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