Jack Baty

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Tag: blogging

I'm so moody when it comes to blogging

"I'll only ever use an SSG for my blog!", I said, unconvincingly. Sometimes I don't want to. Sometimes Kev comes along and makes something like Pure Blog and I think, "Well, that's better!" I can't ha...

Blogging

Kev introduces Pure Comments

Now that I sort of went back to hugo on the other blog, of course Kev introduces Pure Comments. Now what am I supposed to do? 😁

Blogging, Pure Blog

Pausing this (for now)

I love what Kev has done with Pure Blog. It's great, but I think I need to stick with a static site for now. I'm used to it, and I have a Whole Thing built around Emacs and Hugo. It's not like Pure Bl...

Blogging

Doctorow on using AI (to help publish his blog)

The guy sure works hard at blogging. Using AI to help do that seems like a fine use case. He addresses the usual anti-AI backlash with a few choice quotes. Doctorow, Six Years of Pluralistic Purity cu...

AI, Blogging

The all-new baty.blog

Well, I did it. After days of tinkering with Pure Blog, I've used it for this site at baty.blog. I didn't have the guts to replace my main blog at baty.net yet. Too much work. Baty.blog has been power...

Blogging

Blog management fatigue

Remember when I said I wouldn't change blogging platforms?

Blogging

Pure Blog

Remember when I said I wouldn't change blogging platforms?

Blogging

Testing content migration from Hugo, just in case

Just to be clear, I don't have serious plans to migrate my main Baty.net (Hugo) blog to Pure Blog. That doesn't mean I won't explore the "But what if I converted baty.net to Pure Blog?" scenario. Thin...

Blogging, Pure Blog

Managing Pure Blog updates using just

This has been mostly superceded by the built-in upgrade mechanism introduced in version 1.5.0. Since everything in Pure Blog is all in one folder, I needed some way to back things up and deploy update...

Blogging, Pure Blog

First!

Let's test Kev's new blogging tool, Pure Blog.

Blogging, Pure Blog