Quick question to @jack : Is “baty.net” a micro.blog? If so, what’s your theme?
numericcitizen.micro.blogQuick question to @jack : Is “baty.net” a micro.blog? If so, what’s your theme?
numericcitizen.micro.blog@numericcitizen It's a Hugo-based site (which I believe Micro.blog also uses) but not managed by Micro.blog. It uses the "CodeIt" theme with a few tweaks. github.com/sunt-prog...
@jack Guh... I would have to move to my own hosting solution supporting Hugo... is my understanding correct? Any Hugo hosting service suggestions?
@numericcitizen If you're comfortable with Git/Github then Netlify will build and host Hugo for free with almost no setup. It's great, you push to Github and Netlify takes it from there (builds the site, handles SSL, and distributes assets to a global CDN). www.netlify.com. The hardest part is learning to get Hugo working locally. It's not terrible, but there's some setup work there.
@jack ok, I know a little bit about Github... a bit geeky stuff but I will look into this! But there are things that I don’t want to leave behind on MB... like certain plugins and... and my current content... and I’ll have to get a new domain name... oh well... a long term project I guess. Thanks for the hints.
@numericcitizen I'm happy to help if I can. I'm no expert but have fumbled my way to a working Hugo setup. On the other hand, Micro.blog gets so much right and it mostly just works, which is pretty compelling.
@jack the thing I dislike about MB is the limited themes support. I don’t really like my current blog visuals... and I’m not an expert at JavaScript... which seems to be required in order to make tweaks...
@jack It’s very interesting stuff for sure... always wanted to learn more about Github and CI-CD... would hope to keep publishing from iPad on the go... I understand that I can first make some kind of proff-of-concept on my M1-Mac with homebrew 3.0 that is now working ok on this... install git, then hugo then... config and try for myself.
@numericcitizen @jack It is possible to import most Hugo themes in to Micro.blog, although they usually require tweaks to work properly. This video is probably the best introduction. Some themes are too different to work in Micro.blog perfectly, though. (I'd love to spend more time converting themes over.)
@manton oh, thanks! Good insights in this video... now, I'll spend some time to find other MB compatible themse... and try these on the -test MB.
@manton the issue I ran into is that you don’t seem to have all the files needed to test locally. Eg what runs the photo page, archive page etc
Having a repo that out of the box runs locally with Hugo would be really helpful. I can help test, but I’m stuck right now.
@manton Thanks. I think I tried (and failed) to port an earlier theme over but maybe it's worth re-visiting.
@frostedechoes @manton @jack in other news, Hugo runs fine (and faster) on M1-based Macs which is nice.