Tonight on GeekNights, we consider blogging. In the news, Roblox is making a closed ecosystem Discord competitor, the US gave Intel a pile of money, and Intel's CEO hit the bricks. Rym has also consolidated all of his social media into rym.social and talks about how he set up cross-posting across microblog, Mastodon, and Bluesky.
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Does anyone remember the name of the static site generator Scott recommended? I am trying to scrub this episodes and have not found it yet.
Hugo is the most popular static site generator, but there are so many more out there. It’s also quite easy to make one.
I ended up using Hugo for my own site, even though it was not my favorite. The main reason is that because it is so popular, it was not missing any essential features. Everything I wanted to do, there was a way to do it, even if it was sometimes janky. Of the competitors I tried, many were much better overall, but each was lacking in features or flexibility and would have required forking or plugins to achieve what I wanted.