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Ariel Kroon<p>Tuesday night</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@RyanChartier" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>RyanChartier</span></a></span> : I think I'd like to program an alternative webhost so people don't have to rely on Microsoft tech.<br>Me: Oh that sounds really cool!<br>Him: I'm going to try to get a demo together by the end of July.</p><p>Thursday afternoon</p><p>Him: So, I have a working demo now...</p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WebHosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebHosting</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/WebsiteCreation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebsiteCreation</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/SiteHosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiteHosting</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/IndependentWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndependentWeb</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Jekyll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jekyll</span></a></p>
VSAnother of the eerie Jekyll Island Georgia. It's a favorite spot of mine during the winter months when the crowds shrink and there's no risk of disturbing hatching turtles. <br> <br> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/travel?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#travel</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Georgia?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Georgia</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/beach?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#beach</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/sunrise?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sunrise</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/ocean?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ocean</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/jekyll?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#jekyll</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/morning?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#morning</a>
GNU/Linux.ch<p>Serie: Static Site Generators</p><p>In dieser Serie stellen wir bekannte Website-Generatoren vor. Dabei geht es nicht um WordPress, Drupal und Joomla, sondern um Werkzeuge, mit denen man statische Websites bauen kann. </p><p><a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/SSG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SSG</span></a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Website" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Website</span></a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Website_Builder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Website_Builder</span></a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Hugo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hugo</span></a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Jekyll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jekyll</span></a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a></p><p><a href="https://gnulinux.ch/serie-static-site-generators" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gnulinux.ch/serie-static-site-</span><span class="invisible">generators</span></a></p>
Joel :casio: :blobcatderpy:<p>New blogpost... Another one? </p><p>Yes! it's a pretty quick one about a simple tool I found to generate collages, and using them as banners for my <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/blogposts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blogposts</span></a>! </p><p>This is day 76 of <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/100DaysToOffload" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>100DaysToOffload</span></a></p><p><a href="https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/how-to-create-simple-banner-images" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">joelchrono.xyz/blog/how-to-cre</span><span class="invisible">ate-simple-banner-images</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/webdev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webdev</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/jekyll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jekyll</span></a></p>
Risotto Bias<p>There's a weird bashing of "you have to write your own website theme" and it's pretty toxic. </p><p>I'm happy for you if you host your own blog using a Jekyll or Hugo theme, or heck the default WordPress one.</p><p>Because it means you're POSSE &amp; doing indieweb. None of this gatekeeper CSS nonsense.</p><p><a href="https://toot.risottobias.org/tags/indieweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indieweb</span></a> <a href="https://toot.risottobias.org/tags/css" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>css</span></a> <a href="https://toot.risottobias.org/tags/jekyll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jekyll</span></a> <a href="https://toot.risottobias.org/tags/hugo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hugo</span></a> <a href="https://toot.risottobias.org/tags/posse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>posse</span></a></p>
le Pétomane Ancien<p>For the moment I've given up trying to wrestle Jekyll to ground.</p><p>Hugo installed as a snap. It took about 30 minutes to get from zero to a Hello World page. It would have taken less if I hadn't carefully documented the steps. For the moment, Hugo is my preferred option. YMMV</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Jekyll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jekyll</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Hugo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hugo</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/StaticSiteGenerator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StaticSiteGenerator</span></a></p><p>4/4</p>
Ethan Marcotte<p>hello!</p><p>if you use a static site generator for your blog, like <a href="https://follow.ethanmarcotte.com/tags/Eleventy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Eleventy</span></a> or <a href="https://follow.ethanmarcotte.com/tags/jekyll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jekyll</span></a>, AND</p><p>if your blog has a links section,</p><p>could you share how you’ve structured your link posts? i’m adding bookmarks to my website, and i think i could use a little inspiration</p>
LorenaABarba<p>I've just shared a hands-on tutorial for easily creating a static website using Jekyll and GitHub Pages. No local installations—everything is done directly on GitHub!</p><p>Follow along to:<br>– Fork a Jekyll theme<br>– Deploy with GitHub Actions<br>– Edit the content<br>– Solve issues with GitHub Copilot</p><p>It's a practical intro for anyone who values simplicity, openness, and wants to build their own online presence the FOSS way.</p><p>Full tutorial (~40 min): <a href="https://youtu.be/j-tXer7dIes" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/j-tXer7dIes</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Jekyll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jekyll</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/GitHubPages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GitHubPages</span></a></p>
Martin Hamilton<p>Mayke [6/31] - Bling up your web pages with a little help from a Hugo shortcode!</p><p><a href="https://martinh.net/hacks/it-kenburns/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">martinh.net/hacks/it-kenburns/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://martinh.net/tags/mayke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mayke</span></a> <a href="https://martinh.net/tags/mayke25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mayke25</span></a> <a href="https://martinh.net/tags/burns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>burns</span></a> <a href="https://martinh.net/tags/kenburns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kenburns</span></a> <a href="https://martinh.net/tags/bling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bling</span></a> <a href="https://martinh.net/tags/hugo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hugo</span></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://martinh.net/tags/jekyll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jekyll</span></a> <a href="https://martinh.net/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>web</span></a></p>
hardtech.fts<p>Hey guys, I'm looking for a journaling like theme for <a href="https://corteximplant.com/tags/hugossg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hugossg</span></a> <a href="https://corteximplant.com/tags/hugo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hugo</span></a> <a href="https://corteximplant.com/tags/jekyll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jekyll</span></a> or <a href="https://corteximplant.com/tags/zolassg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>zolassg</span></a> or in the last case <a href="https://corteximplant.com/tags/PelicanSSG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PelicanSSG</span></a></p>
Zenie<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@screwtape" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>screwtape</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Codeberg</span></a></span> </p><p>Yea. I just moved my repos and <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/jekyll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jekyll</span></a> site from <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/gitlab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gitlab</span></a> after moving from <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/github" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>github</span></a> a year ago. I do like <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/codeberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>codeberg</span></a> and <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/forejo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>forejo</span></a>. Much better than gitlab.</p><p>I just set up my woodpecker CI to build my site, but now realise I should just use statichost.eu instead.</p>
Zenie<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@screwtape" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>screwtape</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Codeberg</span></a></span> </p><p>There's an issue under heavy discussion at this moment as to whether <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/codeberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>codeberg</span></a> should continue with the pages service or not.<br>The server is apparently terribly broken and pages are unreliable.</p><p><a href="https://codeberg.org/Codeberg-e.V./Discussion/issues/124#issuecomment-3923084" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">codeberg.org/Codeberg-e.V./Dis</span><span class="invisible">cussion/issues/124#issuecomment-3923084</span></a></p><p>The only real eu option is to use statichost.eu instead.<br><a href="https://www.statichost.eu/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">statichost.eu/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>It's a shame. It's one of the reasons that I recently moved to codeberg. I checked the doc, it said it worked, but then to use CI you need to get approved for the purpose as resources are limited.</p><p>But really, you probably shouldn't use codeberg pages, even for your <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/jekyll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jekyll</span></a> site.</p>
Dr Pen<p>Someone's just shared an interesting probably useful tool in the Jekyll subreddit, to convert Medium posts to markdown and synch to a Jekyll blog for backup (or to migrate I assume). It looks good. </p><p>Sry to share a reddit link but it's worth it. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jekyll/s/bm501wLS7P" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reddit.com/r/Jekyll/s/bm501wLS</span><span class="invisible">7P</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/jekyll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jekyll</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>markdown</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/medium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medium</span></a></p>
Joel :casio: :blobcatderpy:<p>I kinda feel like going back to a side bar, thoughts? :blobcatderpy: </p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/jekyll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jekyll</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/css" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>css</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/webdev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webdev</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/personalWebsite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>personalWebsite</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/WebDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebDesign</span></a></p>
podfeet<p>In this installment on PBS about the static site generator Jekyll to create free websites on GitHub, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.bartificer.ie/@bart" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bart</span></a></span> digs into the build process, and how the location, naming, and content of files automatically turn into web pages.</p><p><a href="https://pbs.bartificer.net/pbs178" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">pbs.bartificer.net/pbs178</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Programming</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Jekyll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jekyll</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/GitHubPages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GitHubPages</span></a></p>
deuts<p>O how hard it is to manage a <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Jekyll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jekyll</span></a> site, compared to <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/GoHugo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoHugo</span></a>...</p>
Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:<p>Can someone point me to an explainer on what is happening in the <a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/Hugo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hugo</span></a> SSG (Static Site Generator) community? I hear stuff about "pay for features" but 'm not really sure what is happening. (FTR, I still happily rely on <a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/Jekyll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jekyll</span></a> for my sites, but am always willing to try alternatives and Hugo was obviously a possible choice)</p>
podfeet<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.bartificer.ie/@bart" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bart</span></a></span> and I take our first baby steps at creating a simple site using Jekyll and GitHub Pages in this week’s PBS. We got to install Ruby, learn about Gems and Bundler, learn about Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets (Sass), install Bootstrap locally and more.</p><p><a href="https://pbs.bartificer.net/pbs177" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">pbs.bartificer.net/pbs177</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Programming</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/GitHubPages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GitHubPages</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Bootstrap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bootstrap</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Jekyll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jekyll</span></a></p>
Knut 🏳️‍🌈 🇳🇴🧸<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ifixcoinops</span></a></span> I know a good <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/jekyll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jekyll</span></a> dev who is going to be doing that on <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/fiverr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiverr</span></a> for some extra monies...so that dev is saying "yes"!</p>
Urix Turing<p>New blog post: This post has been generated with Eleventy</p><p>Migrating from <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Jekyll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jekyll</span></a> to <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/11ty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>11ty</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@eleventy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>eleventy</span></a></span>, and my impressions after using both static web generators. <a href="https://lamaquinadeturing.su/en/2025/02/this-post-has-been-generated-with-eleventy/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lamaquinadeturing.su/en/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">2/this-post-has-been-generated-with-eleventy/</span></a></p>