I ran my own blog for many years but recently I suspect my server got hacked, and after reinstalling I want to do things a little differently.

I’d like to move away from PHP and I don’t really need a dynamic CMS anyhow.

So far I’ve been using PicoCMS which serves content from markdown pages with a little header. I got quite good at it, wrote my own theme and a few plugins. The templating language is Twig so something similar would be a boon for me.

Writing content in markdown is my most important requirement, or rather reusing the existing pages with as little massaging as possible. Here is one example:

---
Title: Create WiFi Hotspot with NetworkManager
date: 24.11.2022
Tags: archlinux,android
template: post
---

# Make sure required depenencies are installed

blablablablablablablabla

I really want a tag cloud, which used to be my only sorting mechanism apart from date. Most generators, at first glance, offer a tags page. Honestly I have no idea if I’d have to template the cloud myself but tag functionality seems to be common, I guess?

What I don’t want is any sort of web UI or even builtin server functionality or other bells and whistles for the user. I prefer to ssh into the server and do things on the CLI.

Now my most important constraint is that I want to use what’s available in (or as a) Debian repositories. After a quick search around it boils down to:

Searching for similar topics I found this and this. I read all the comments.

TIA

edit: Lots of people mention Hugo. Why would I choose that over, say, Jekyll or Pelican?
Personally I feel drawn more towards Python than Go or Rust, and a Twig-like (e.g. Jinja) templating language. If that’s idiotic, please let me know why.
Also please remember I’m not running a github (or other similar VCS) page but have a dedicated VPS running Debian Stable. Deployment or containerization are of no interest to me.

  • Omega@discuss.onlineEnglish
    1·
    8 hours ago

    Self host and third party exists. You probably could use Lemmy as a shoddy way to make comments too

    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      1·
      7 hours ago

      Self host

      On a static site generator? Can you link me to that please?

      What about Hugo’s templating language? It’s been said to be daunting:

      • “It gets admittedly more complex if you’re wanting to write your own theme though.”
      • “But as soon as you do want to customize it, you’re stuck learning one of the most esoteric languages that wasn’t meant as a joke.”
      • “The documentation is unclear and there’s a chicken and egg problem about how to learn Hugo.”
      • Omega@discuss.onlineEnglish
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        6 hours ago

        I was fighting with my linter tbh still have no clue how to write html in go like its php

        And, for the comments part, I haven’t looked into it, it’s likely just a JavaScript file that connects to your server or an external one and pulls all data and whatever, its the single dynamic part and it’s done with js