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  • This is a classic bell-curve meme. The midwit gets lost in complex setups, but the smartest approach is simply to write, regardless of the platform.

    https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/03/800th-blog-post-wr...

    by mad44
  • mine has no org-mode...which is fine...I like markdown:

    find . -name '*.md' -type f -exec sh -c '

      for file do  
    out="docs/${file#./}"  
    out="${out%.md}.html"
    mkdir -p "$(dirname "$out")"  
    pandoc --quiet --template template.html "$file" -o "$out"  
  done
    ' sh {} +
    by malkosta
  • I prefer to write words not code. I use WordPress because it hides all the complexity and lets me just write instead of messing with Markdown (or an entire separate system), CI pipelines, custom markup hacks for page features, Emacs cruft, etc..

    Yeah WordPress is a security nightmare, but Ghost's editor sucks and there's no viable open-source alternatives with modern security and features.

    by writtenone
  • I don't understand why gleam and pandoc are in there. Org-mode can already generate HTML. A little bit of Emacs Lisp turns it into a blogging engine.

    https://ahungry.com/blog/2013-04-01-blogging-with-org-mode.h...

    by throwaway81523
  • > The reason being that Orgmode is a far superior format [to markdown]

    I have to disagree with this. I will admit there are some things org mode does better than markdown, but there are also things it does worse. And probably the biggest is alluded to in the rest of that sentence: "[the] only downside is that you have to be inside Emacs to fully enjoy."

    Within

    by thayne

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