esoterictriangle

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@esoterictriangle

i make things

draw-er reader music-er knitter nature-er sleeper cook-er

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esoterictriangle
@esoterictriangle

ok i am looking at 11ty

it might be able to nearly tie together "i want it easy to post" and "i don't wanna deal with wordpress etc again" with only a little more early effort than setting up a fully manual static site. it does not currently feel as if "i wanna post from my phone" is reachable for it but I am hopeful I can work something out

I am now beginning to tell myself repeatedly until it sticks, "workable before aesthetic" because i know i am going to get bogged down in aesthetic tweaks. i will continue to tell myself i can adjust it as time goes on (and 11ty will make it so my changes will affect all my theoretical posts). the main goal is definitely settling around "easy to post" and "as low maintenance as possible". These are the things I miss am sure I can come close to off this site.

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theworksofegan
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I'm also using 11ty, and was just able to add a simple lil CMS to my site that doesn't look super great on my phone, but it can be there in a pinch. I've also used MarkDownPro on iOS a little bit, so that could be another option for drafting posts on mobile!

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esoterictriangle
@esoterictriangle

how are you hosting? I was kinda thinking I'd poke at neocities for ease of getting started somewhere but I have also played with glitch and that feels like a good option as well (or, at least something I can mostly parse enough to feel confidentish in). Eventually I will hopefully be able to put money where my mouth is and pay for a domain name and hosting but that's a barrier for after I know I have a workflow I'm sure I will use.

I'm not tooo worried about drafting a post on my phone since 11ty will eat just about whatever I choose to use but I am worried about uploading a file off my android onto the site. It may just be me unable to envision myself walking through the process of posting using 11ty till I actually use it? idk!

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theworksofegan
@theworksofegan

I started on Neocities, and ended up on Netlify purely so I could use a CMS (I'm using decap cms). It has some nice 11ty-specific integration and supports building your site from GitHub (which I didn't want to do at first, but it actually makes things really easy). So now when I want to write a post, I just write it in my CMS in my browser, and when I click post, it commits to my site repository in GitHub, and then Netlify takes it and builds the site, and all I had to do was click post.

And then when I want to change some other part of the site, I just have to make the change locally in VSCode or whatever, push it to GitHub (they have a desktop app that will watch your site's folder for changes, so you just click Push to update the live version), and then Netlify grabs it and builds it, and it's online.

Also Netlify has a free tier that has absolutely everything you need for a small personal blog. It's what I'm using, and you don't need to pay for anything more.

I hope that all makes sense!

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