Minimum Viable Blog

I've been wondering what is the benefit of putting up your own web server or scripts to serve your static content when you could put it in a Github repo or serve from something like S3?

The nice thing about latter is that the bandwidth, DDoS or other load-related issues aren't that much of a problem. Server maintenance also isn't a problem as you don't have any.

Doing it easy for yourself and get quicker to the content is the way to go.

Auto-index with header.html and some js for me

        html_content = html_content.replace('Minimum viable blog', title)

        html_content = html_content.replace('{{ title }}', title)

Sanitize your strings!

your blog has 1 big problem - no SEO optimization, meaning that after spike of visitors from HN today, it will disappear in Google void after couple of days, meaning no visitors in the future, no mentions from ChatGPT, etc. It's most common problem for all self-hosted blog engines, though idea I like that main idea of minimalist blogs (I am using Bear blog by myself).

Thank you for putting the effort to keep the open web alive, especially by sharing this simple though effective tool. I use Wordpress and like it. I learned to enjoy using it when I stopped reading "pros & cons" bulleted lists about it.

> Tired, so ask O1 for a render.py script

Groan

I feel like the first MVB was Maddox - too bad he fell way off.

I was thinking, another thing you could probably easily add is optimizing the images for web delivery, in your first article there are quite large jpgs.

The hardest part is the DevOps part where you need to find out reliable host, how to deploy, CI/CD and all the server-related stuff if you want maximum customization.

good idea .... for ipfs

yes.

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Dear god the bugs in that Python…

I'm more of a WordPress guy. Click "install wordpress". When I need something I add a plugin. No code required.