I don't know about "better" but I like Nikola (https://getnikola.com). - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

I've been pretty happy with nikola[1] The only thing I really wanted was 1 command to publish (which is does great) and an easy way to drag and drop images into posts (which I can do via the publish jupyter notebook function). What I absolutely did not want was anything where "send HTML to clients" created any sort of overhead like a database. [1] https://getnikola.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

And I would argue that this is an excellent way to introduce new readers to RSS: instead of the browser popping up a download prompt, you can make your RSS feeds themselves a dedicated page for advocating RSS, in case an interested reader is browsing through the links on your site. [0] https://getnikola.com/ [1] https://getnikola.com/rss.xml (Open it in your browser!) [2] - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

Nikola is a feature-rich static site generator that supports a variety of formats for content creation, including reStructuredText, Markdown, and Jupyter Notebooks. It offers a flexible architecture, allowing you to use different template engines and supports plugins for extending functionality. Nikola is suitable for both simple blogs and complex websites. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago

You can - you'd basically just create a python script that parses your HTML/CSS files and replaces strings with values from your YAML. However I wouldn't recommend that unless you're just using this as an opportunity to learn Python. If you want to standup a real site and you want to use python, I'd recommend a Python static site generator like Pelican or Nikola. Source: over 2 years ago

Using a portable minimal markdown dependency (such as cmark [1]) I think markdown can be quite a low barrier here. I personally do similar to what you have described on my blog, with an additional cmark conversion and find it quite simple [2]. [1] https://github.com/commonmark/cmark. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

I use GNU make. Write content in markdown, feed it to https://github.com/commonmark/cmark to create html. I intended to splice files together using xslt but echo and cat written in the makefile sufficed. I'm not totally sure I'd recommend that but I do like the markdown => html flow. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

I seem to be in the middle of trying to build something similar to this. I want it to run on an android phone but otherwise the same sort of idea, offline-first information I want access to. There's some weirdness around android browsers refusing to load html from the phone itself on security grounds. The OP uses a "progressive web app" which seems to be the proper way to do this at some point in the past, but... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Yeah no doubt it, although in this case the C implementation has been a long running project that's under the official commonmark GitHub repo at https://github.com/commonmark/cmark. But I think the most important thing here is an Elixir NIF already exists to use it. The blog post as is leaves readers having to implement ~100 lines of Elixir code to use the Rust version because the authors of blog post didn't... - Source: Hacker News / about 4 years ago

I'm confused about how to use a c library (specifically, cmark) from zig. Source: about 4 years ago