Re: [tlug] TLUG Site with Hakyll Update

[Raymond Wan <rwan.kyoto@example.com>]

Hi all,


On 19/3/2019 11:30 PM, Curt Sampson wrote:
...
> As far as me doing actual development on another site compiler: I'd
> have some have in that if it were a Python thing, little if it were
> JS, and basically none if it were Ruby. (I've written several times as
> much Ruby as those other two languages put together; take my feelings
> on Ruby for what you will. :-))


I'm not sure if I have anything to add but I previously kept 
notes for myself on a Mediawiki site.  Every time Ubuntu 
went through an upgrade, I'd have to update MySQL and every 
2-3 updates, there would be some problem and I'd have to 
re-install some module.  I then gave up and realised (as was 
mentioned earlier) that the database was overkill.  I 
switched over to markdown and mkdocs [1].  If I remember 
correctly, I ran some plugin to Mediawiki and it did a dump 
of every page into a markdown file (I guess that is what you 
did, Curt?).

As an aside, I also had an intranet work site using mkdocs. 
It doesn't look fancy, but I found it easy to set up.

I then had an idea to redo my own homepage, which was done 
many years ago with HTML, CSS, and some "templating" using 
Perl.  It's funny looking at it now...  About 6 months ago, 
I decided to give Hugo a try.  I didn't look at anything 
else that's been discussed so far (i.e., Hakyll) mainly 
because I liked the selection of themes for Hugo.  :-P

While it's remained on my to-do list for half a year, this 
whole discussion about tlug and hakyll has made me think 
about finally doing my web site...  I guess I needed a 
push...  Somehow, I got the barebones Hugo tutorial working 
but trying to do something other than a blog got me 
frustrated.  Maybe it's time to do it...

I have this feeling it doesn't matter the static generator 
used.  Hugo is supposed to be based on Go, but unless you do 
something advance, I guess we don't use Go directly? 
(Having said that, I don't know Go, so maybe I was looking 
at it without knowing.  :-) )

Despite having a Github account with actual code, I've had 
little experience working with others.  I'm happy to pitch 
in and help a bit with the tlug web site, but prefer to be 
quiet at first out of fear of driving those of you who 
*have* worked with others on Github nuts...  :-)  Using 
Github or gitolite all by yourself is quite different!

(But definitely no to WordPress, Mediawiki, Joomla, etc. 
I'd go loopy whenever an upgrade is needed...)

Ray

[1]  https://www.mkdocs.org/