[HN Gopher] My blog is now generated by Google Docs
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My blog is now generated by Google Docs
Author : RupertWiser
Score : 191 points
Date : 2020-05-10 16:57 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| madsohm wrote:
| I run my wishlist from a Google Sheets document. It's a bit
| annoying that you can't have gaps in rows in the spreadsheet,
| since fetching as JSON will only return up until the first gap.
| throwawaysea wrote:
| Cool idea, but I worry about over reliance on Google or other big
| tech players, especially after their recent steps to ramp up
| censorship. Another example is that Medium blocked many
| informative COVID-19 posts recently despite them being thoughtful
| and necessary discussions, especially given the repeated failings
| of the WHO. What's a great blog platform that features a lack of
| censorship or protection against censorship as a feature?
| tbstbstbs wrote:
| Great job, thanks for sharing!
|
| Some might like this adoption of the idea: I work in consulting
| and have to prepare presentations all of the time.
|
| Therefore, I created a Powerpoint generator that uses a Google
| Sheet as a source: http://demo.inf.university
|
| <-- It doesn't look spectacular, but it saved me really a lot of
| time. "Can you prepare a briefing about X,Y,Z" - "Sure, it will
| take -cough- about 3 days" :-)
| magicalhippo wrote:
| Way back I considered using Microsoft Word as my content editor
| for my blog, and wrote a PHP script that converted .docx files to
| static HTML. To publish all I had to do was upload a new .docx
| file to a given directory on my shared host and wait for the
| script to run.
|
| It converted the Word "Heading 1" etc styles to some CSS class,
| and had support for extracting inline images etc. I relied on
| convention for certain things like post title, and it didn't
| support too fancy things in the Word document.
|
| At that time .docx was rather new, so I wasn't sure if it would
| stick around. Also I wasn't sure this was the best idea ever, so
| I ended up with something else. But it was a fun adventure.
| Hello71 wrote:
| is there any benefit of that over the built-in html export
| function (which also works terribly)?
| magicalhippo wrote:
| Well the key point was to use Word for basic content editing
| and layout, but have control over the styling on the website
| part of things (ie via my own style sheet). As I recall the
| generated HTML from Word was quite a mess, and it would be
| non-trivial to change the styling of it.
|
| It also allowed the pages to be easily integrated into my
| blog, with first paragraph being visible on the main page
| etc.
|
| Mostly though it was just a "can it be done" experiment :)
| [deleted]
| [deleted]
| jacquesm wrote:
| Have you planned for what you will do if Google shuts down your
| account?
| Traster wrote:
| So there's a few things I'd take issue with here. Firstly,
| writing a static site with a little bit of CSS is easier than
| ever. Not only are there lots of neat CSS files that will help
| you, but browsers _actually_ are fairly good at functioining more
| or less the same. There was a time that writing corect CSS was a
| real art, but that 's not really true as much today. Secondly, I
| think this is one of many examples of creating an incredibly
| complex solution to a trivial problem - the initial problem isn't
| a problem, and linking into an incredibly hefty cloud based
| system just seems nuts in my opinion. Finally, who exactly is
| looking to try and _increase_ their dependence on google?
|
| I think part of my opinion comes from that latex/vim bent, where
| you're using very programmatic, specific idioms to get what you
| wrote, and if you're less comfortably with that then maybe you
| appreciate all the work of building some google docs based on
| monstrosity, but the more experience I've gained, the more I've
| learned to use the right tool for the job. Google docs isn't a
| blogging tool, so don't use it as one.
| elondaits wrote:
| I recently used Google Sheets as a CMS for a couple of projects.
|
| In my case I had a server-side script which read the sheets,
| converted the data to JSON and saved it on a file which was then
| fetched by the JS client. The conversion only had to run when
| there were updates (e.g once a day).
|
| It was really convenient in my particular case because all users
| where familiar with Google Sheets, already had users and
| passwords, and I had good granular control over permissions.
| ignoramous wrote:
| You might also be interested in Glide, helps build mobile-apps
| with Google Sheets:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19163081
| mettamage wrote:
| How does it work when you have _a lot_ of text and you need to
| put that in one cell? Doesn 't that get a bit too unruly?
| vijaybritto wrote:
| I dont think we need to care about google sheet's looks while
| using it as a DB. This approach is pretty good and fast
| ForrestN wrote:
| This is a nice idea, especially for a case where a website is
| collaboratively edited. I don't love Google Docs for solo
| projects, and I don't enjoy using it, but its collaborative
| editing features are so good and reliable that I can't escape it.
| Being able to suggest and accept changes with commenting among a
| group of people would be really nice for a website for a
| collective, say.
|
| That said, a bit of small, hopefully constructive feedback. The
| impact of this would be a bit bigger if there were more blog
| posts, so that by the time you reveal you're using google docs it
| feels more like a practical application and less like a very
| quick demo. Also, while I understand that there's a sort of
| "coder who doesn't do design" aesthetic, it might be good to at
| least change the colors a bit so that there's a bit more magic of
| transformation. This looks a bit too much like, well, a Google
| doc, and you want to establish that something cool is going on
| that couldn't be done with just an index of publicly visible
| google docs.
| [deleted]
| [deleted]
| remote wrote:
| It's a really cool idea Google codelabs has been using for a
| few years to provide a unified way to write development
| tutorials[1].
|
| 1. https://github.com/googlecodelabs/tools/
| ehsankia wrote:
| Not to be confused with Google Colab! Which provides shared
| Jupyter Notebook, which also can be great for writing
| markdown cells, with graphs and code interspersed.
| ignoramous wrote:
| My first encounter with a docs -> website was the now-defunct
| joelewis' hexopress.com. The code; however, is opensource [0].
|
| There's a dated, unmaintained Google Docs to Markdown converter
| [1] which can be used as a source for a static site generator
| like Hugo [2]. This is particular interesting since folks can
| style content as they normally would from within Google Docs and
| have it show up with the same styling on a webpage, rather than
| write HTML themselves.
|
| [0] https://github.com/joelewis/hexopress
|
| [1] https://github.com/mangini/gdocs2md
|
| [2] https://gohugo.io/content-management/formats/
| leonidasv wrote:
| As an alternative, Gatsby -- a JS-powered static site generator
| -- has a plugin for Google Docs that appears to be in active
| development.
|
| https://www.gatsbyjs.org/packages/gatsby-source-google-docs/
| richardARPANET wrote:
| Shameless plug incoming... I made the equivalent but for APIs
| using Google Sheets :) https://sheet2api.com/
| metrix wrote:
| i'm using Google Sheets for a Coronavirus Tracker
| http://amarillo.land/coronavirus.html but i'm not enthused with
| the performance. This looks very interesting!
| fireattack wrote:
| Want something like this for a long time.
|
| The 50 row limit of the free tier doesn't fit my hobby project
| unfortunately, but it's glad to see someone developed such
| thing!
| ehsankia wrote:
| Yeah, this is a great service but the pricing doesn't make
| sense (even after the free tier). 10$ a month (!!!) and it
| still wouldn't fit my use case with only 1500 rows. The
| convenience is nice but considering Google/Microsoft is
| paying for most of the hosting, cell computation and so on,
| not sure why a wrapper around an API is so expensive.
| hckr_news wrote:
| Saved :)
| onesmalluser wrote:
| You can get a Google Sheet in JSON format just by adding
| alt=json to the URL. What do you do differently?
| 1wheel wrote:
| The NYT uses docs to author interactive articles that don't fit
| nicely in the CMS.
|
| I've missed that workflow a lot (comments and edits are
| amazing!); I just open sourced a tiny library that saves a doc as
| a text file.
|
| https://github.com/1wheel/doc2txt npx doc2txt
| 1StMiAtcY6bY6yEIQp5pVSGdIHSnZG-kFspdmsSzAJdE --outpath
| gettysburg.txt
| WheelsAtLarge wrote:
| Hey all, keep in mind that this is an experiment and the OP is
| therefore looking for input from users. Don't look at it from a
| finished product point of view but as a starting point and give
| your ideas. I think this is a great solution a quick in office
| CMS for in house projects.
| z3t4 wrote:
| Would be interesting with more details on how this works. Like
| how the URL works and how the pages are styled. Is there any
| services needed beside google docs, etc.
| Tade0 wrote:
| Good work - bonus points for having it work with JS disabled - a
| surprising number of blogs need JS to even render for some
| reason.
|
| A while ago was facing a similar dilemma, so I went with this:
|
| https://sapper.svelte.dev/
|
| Plus a one-step deploy process made in Ansible by a friend of
| mine.
|
| My take is that while Sapper isn't exactly production-ready, it's
| a otherwise competent static-site generator.
|
| I write my posts in markdown and the system adds styling and
| modifications like target=_blank for links in a consistent
| manner.
|
| Best thing about it is that I managed to use the experience from
| building my blog to help a friend who's an artist to set up his
| webcomic - also a static site.
|
| The friend in question knows how to use FTP but that's about the
| extent of his technical skills, so the process involves him
| modifying a JSON file by adding an object with the comic title,
| flavour text and of course image URL to an array, running the
| generator and uploading the result.
|
| The landscape of systems for this use case is pretty horrible, so
| this approach proved to be more pragmatic.
| iisthesloth wrote:
| Love using Docs as a source. A while back I wrote a service[1]
| which creates an API using Google Drive and Docs as a source.
| Docs are naturally pages, and the Drive folder structure builds
| the hierarchy/tree of pages using a pretty simple naming
| convention (Mainly for ordering). The CMS/collaborative aspect is
| great. Some things that aren't ideal are: -
| Seeing print-style page breaks in docs - Formatting images.
| Although, having Google host them is nice - The html Google
| Drive generates is inlined, inconsistent, and pretty nasty. I
| resorted to using markdown in Docs.
|
| 1. https://github.com/psaia/allwrite-docs
| RupertWiser wrote:
| Another solution that I explored a bit was using the google
| docs api. It returns a Json structure of the doc. I just used
| the drive export as a shortcut but you could totally create
| something neater with the drive api.
| iisthesloth wrote:
| Great idea. I will certainly look into that. Thanks!
| xnxn wrote:
| I recently learned (via Rich Harris's recent Svelte Society Day
| talk[1]) that the New York Times does something like this using a
| custom markup language called ArchieML[2].
|
| [1]: https://youtu.be/luM5uobewhA?t=1301
|
| [2]: http://archieml.org/
| nicexe wrote:
| I don't really understand the argument against something like
| jekyll. There is no special styling as of now anyway so why would
| jekyll need any?
| soared wrote:
| Blot.im does this but with dropbox and its amazing. Since you use
| word docs instead of g docs the formatting transfers over
| perfectly. Super easy setup and $20/yr. I've been using it for 2
| or 3 years and it's great.
|
| Npzero.com is my blog if you want to see an example. There are
| much prettier themes you can choose from as well. I have a chrome
| book so sometimes I write in g docs, export to word, and upload
| to Dropbox's webapp and make final adjustments in their online
| editor. No affiliation, just a great product.
| franciscop wrote:
| The first version of https://makersupv.com/ was made with Google
| Drive as well:
|
| - There was a spreadsheet with the list of articles and some
| meta-information such as publication date, "published" flag, etc.
| This was then extracted with https://github.com/franciscop/drive-
| db on a Node.js backend.
|
| - Then each article was written as a single google docs document,
| so we could edit them collaboratively.
|
| Meta: The front-end was built with https://picnicss.com/, which
| is a library I also created for this project.
| obeattie wrote:
| I've been thinking about going the other way a bit recently:
| having bots consume input from and add their output to a Google
| Doc.
|
| There are so many processes in most businesses which involve many
| humans collaborating on templatised documents. Google Docs/Sheets
| fits into these workflows very well, but there's often scope for
| some partial automation in there too - pulling information from
| databases and outside sources and keeping it in sync, etc.
| Developing custom web apps for each case is too much effort for
| too little reward, takes users out of a familiar (and well-liked)
| interface which updates in real-time, makes you reimplement
| permission models, etc.
|
| Not something I've explored properly yet so I don't know if the
| APIs are rich enough to make this easy, but I would really like
| to give it a look.
| pier25 wrote:
| I used that approach for a reporting system and it worked
| pretty well. It was easy to hit the sheets api rate limit but
| it was just a matter of waiting a bit between requests.
|
| The node script was triggered hourly with Heroku scheduler.
| londons_explore wrote:
| It would be cool if it was 100% live... Ie. with every keystroke
| the website is updated. Does the Google Docs API have some kind
| of event based notification of new keystrokes you could hook
| into?
| schaefer wrote:
| As a reader, i don't want to be anywhere near somebody's half-
| finished first draft.
|
| different personalities, I suppose.
| marvinblum wrote:
| You can do this with Emvi [1] too. It works like a headless CMS.
| I wrote a wiki for a German gaming community [2]. The project is
| available on GitHub [3] if anyone is interested and can easily be
| adopted to your own project. The articles fit a blog very well as
| they don't use pages and therefor are continuous. The API spits
| out clean HTML.
|
| [1] https://emvi.com/
|
| [2] https://wiki.sts.wtf/
|
| [3] https://github.com/Special-Tactical-Service/wiki
| bawana wrote:
| What's wrong with blogger? You know https://www.blogger.com/
|
| Also run by Google. Also subject to all their rules. But also
| robust with a simple clean interface.
|
| I wish there were a simple free way for me to enjoy free speech.
| I already pay for dropbox. Why can't dropbox let me assign a
| folder in my account become a blog.
| el_programmador wrote:
| God forbid if Google lifted their hands some day, can you even
| imagine how many million people will be impacted due to how many
| services ranging from emails to map apps to cloud services to web
| services, etc? Is it wise to give one entity power over so many
| things or its better to encourage a decentralized structure where
| multiple organizations control only bits of the pie?
| austin223 wrote:
| Absolutely agree. Unfortunately I don't think nations like the
| US will ever have the balls to break up their wonder children.
| hencq wrote:
| You mean like the US did with AT&T? I'm not sure if they
| 'have the balls' currently, but they have in the past and
| it's not inconceivable they would do so again. Microsoft came
| close to it as well.
| lonelappde wrote:
| AT&T reformed as regional monopolies in far less time than
| it took the government to break up the national monopoly.
| zokier wrote:
| I do point out that US vs AT&T did first major anti-trust
| settlement in _1913_ , and the breakup ultimately happened
| in 1984, or about _70 years_ later. So maybe we 'll see
| Google breakup too in 2084 or around that time..
| el_programmador wrote:
| Nations are ultimately made up of people and they are subject
| to peoples' pressure. Its the people who we must convince and
| wake them from their deep slumber.
| zokier wrote:
| Sure, it is a genuine concern. But I find the context for the
| comment here bit funny considering how much the world runs on
| top of gdocs etc, the risk of losing the source of personal
| blog is drop in a ocean.
|
| And while there of course are no guarantees, I at least would
| expect fair warning before stuff like docs is killed.
| lonelappde wrote:
| The ocean is made of drops.
| crazygringo wrote:
| Well, I don't need to trust Google's employees, I trust its
| shareholders wanting to make money, which will never stop.
|
| Since Google's popular products all contribute to making money
| in the end, they're not going to stop. Shareholders just
| wouldn't let it happen. There's a chain of accountability here
| that goes employees > C suite > board > shareholders.
|
| So I don't quite see what situation you're worried about here.
| judge2020 wrote:
| if by some magical event Alphabet/Google is able to shut down
| their free versions of their Office apps and rely solely on G
| Suite/YouTube/Waymo/etc without losing money, I don't doubt
| they would do it. If that event will ever happen is still a
| mystery and is probably unlikely to happen within my/our
| lifetimes.
| lonelappde wrote:
| Google's shareholders don't hold substantial voting power.
| Accountability practically ends at CEO.
| crazygringo wrote:
| That's just so factually untrue it's hard to know what to
| tell you.
|
| Do you understand how corporate boards work? How large
| shareholders get their own board seats? How boards hire and
| fire members of the management team?
|
| The idea of a toothless board is a complete fiction. I
| don't know where you got the idea, but it couldn't be more
| wrong.
|
| (Perhaps you're confusing it with boards where a single
| shareholder has more than 50% of shares, thus making the
| board largely irrelevant because the shareholder controls
| it. But even in that case, the CEO effectively reports to
| that shareholder, and there have been _many, many, many_
| cases of underperforming CEO 's being fired. It happens all
| the time.)
| hombre_fatal wrote:
| I don't think the cost of losing things is as high as you
| imagine. You can use X until it fails and then you can use Y.
|
| I also don't think your doomsday scenario makes much sense
| either. What do you mean "lifted their hands" and why would it
| happen out of the blue with zero warning? Though I'll repeat:
| so what?
|
| I don't think a decentralized system is much better in this
| regard. It just means things rot at a more staggered pace.
| Service A shuts down on year 0, service B shuts down on year
| 10, etc. It's just a different trade-off, not the panacea we
| like to pretend it is.
| duxup wrote:
| At least with takeout I know I have regular backups.
|
| That's more than most places offer.
| tmpz22 wrote:
| Have you looked through the takeout outputs though? They are
| completely worthless to most users. It's funny to me that a
| bunch of Google devs built the functionality and thought "ya
| this will do".
| thinkingkong wrote:
| I doubt the devs have much influence over the scope of the
| data output. The goal there is minimum for legal,
| compliance, or pr reasons.
| judge2020 wrote:
| https://mboxfile.com/google-takeout/
| adrianmsmith wrote:
| What's wrong with the data?
|
| I mainly care about Google Docs and Sheets, they're
| exported as Word and Excel (and there are other options if
| you don't like this formats), and the random sample of docs
| I tried in the output worked fine in Word and Excel.
| filleduchaos wrote:
| How are the takeout outputs useless? Mail for example comes
| as a nice standard mbox
| jacquesm wrote:
| Takeout is useless without Google. Also: gsuite doesn't
| really have a backup feature. You're locked in for all that
| it's worth.
| duxup wrote:
| Why is it useless?
| lonelappde wrote:
| Takeout doesn't work for users with substantial data.
| duxup wrote:
| What does it do?
|
| Does it not provide the data?
| hawski wrote:
| I'm finishing up with a simplistic template for Zim wiki. That
| will enable me to have a website with nice Wysywig interface
| divorced from web bloat and limitiations, but also some of its
| convenience.
|
| https://zim-wiki.org/
| krm01 wrote:
| After building a number of [1] projects that are powered by
| Google Docs, I recently realised that it also means that
| countries (like China) where Google is blocked, won't be able to
| access your content.
|
| https://upstart.me (powered by Google Docs)
| sfusato wrote:
| FAQ not expanding.
|
| Console errors: Blocked loading mixed active content "http://cd
| njs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.mi...
| upstart.me Request to access cookie or storage on "<URL>" was
| blocked because it came from a tracker and content blocking is
| enabled. 6 ReferenceError: $ is not defined script.js:1:1
| Blocked loading mixed active content "http://cdnjs.cloudflare.c
| om/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.mi... upstart.me Loading
| failed for the <script> with source "http://cdnjs.cloudflare.co
| m/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.mi.... upstart.me:179:1
| ReferenceError: $ is not defined
| scott113341 wrote:
| Looks interesting, I signed up!
|
| FWIW, I ran into the same issue (Chrome): https://user-
| images.githubusercontent.com/1910118/81509549-a...
| judge2020 wrote:
| Have you visited the Cloudflare main website by chance? cdnjs
| doesn't serve cookies unless you've visited cloudflare.com
| yourself. Either way the cdnjs jquery isn't a tracker.
| shanipribadi wrote:
| mixed active content was why the browser blocked it. the
| cdnjs link is http, while the site is https.
| lihaciudaniel wrote:
| >wordpress (I really don't like wordpress).
|
| I really don't like your blog
| patwalls wrote:
| I built an app that lets you create a blog from Google docs.
|
| https://youdontneedwp.com
| davidsojevic wrote:
| I remember this from a while back -- you originally wrote this
| as part of your live-streaming new projects effort, if I
| remember correctly?
|
| Your original HN thread about it here:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18077446
| ipsum2 wrote:
| Reminds me of generating webpages from Microsoft Word. The issue
| is that the HTML looks pretty awful. For example, on the webpage,
| there's a bunch of tags that don't do anything and the inline
| style makes it difficult if you wanted to change the font family
| or color.
|
| </span></p><p style="padding:0;margin:0;color:#000000;font-
| size:11pt;font-family:"Arial";line-
| height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;height:11pt;text-align:left"><span
| style="color:#000000;font-weight:400;text-
| decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-
| family:"Arial";font-style:normal"></span></p><p
| style="padding:0;margin:0;color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-
| family:"Arial";line-
| height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left"><span
| style="color:#000000;font-weight:400;text-
| decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:11pt;font-
| family:"Arial";font-style:normal">
| marvinblum wrote:
| Yeah that's pretty ugly. Emvi [1] generates clean HTML. Here is
| an example for that: https://wiki.sts.wtf/read/Arma-3-Sync-
| oVlaBeQdAY (the part within the "article-content" div).
|
| [1] https://emvi.com/
| baxtr wrote:
| Use "Show HN" to show case it :-)
| [deleted]
| marvinblum wrote:
| We showed Emvi and the new user interface we are working on
| right now already :)
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22640054
| RupertWiser wrote:
| The alternative is to hook into the Google Docs API which gives
| you a more structured response which you can then self style.
|
| Exporting HTML was the easy way out for me. I haven't
| investigated the accessibility impact but the file sizes are
| minimal so it didn't feel like a massive trade off.
| ErikAugust wrote:
| I would only worry that the Google API access changes or gets
| pulled altogether. Otherwise it has some benefits, including
| collaboration.
| lkc9 wrote:
| This isn't directly related to the post but the root of this
| website is hilarious: https://benwiser.com/
| miguelmota wrote:
| On mobile I just see a broken static image of the person's
| head.
| modeless wrote:
| I love it! I think the rendering could be improved by
| projecting the image to compensate for screen tilt, in addition
| to rotating the head.
| superhuzza wrote:
| Came here to say the same thing. It's weird, I loved the
| effect. I showed it to my partner and she found it terrifying
| though!
| andy_ppp wrote:
| I saw someone I was working with using Google docs for seed data,
| I actually think this is quite cool as long as it's performed in
| two steps (pull, insert) as you still want to be able to recreate
| offline or should Google docs explode (or price or cancellation).
| janjanson wrote:
| I've run a little round robin/bracketed tournament website
| through the Google sheets JSON API once. It was a really easy way
| to have an interface for the organizers to update scores and
| players.
| _Chief wrote:
| seeing secrets.txt in the repo gave me a fright for a second and
| it's not even my project
| butz wrote:
| What about just using Google Sites? They have updated UI and
| improved functionality quite a bit. You can even link your own
| domain.
| city41 wrote:
| This website: https://www.fgbg.art/, is powered by this
| spreadsheet:
| https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1W8RE885PVF2z3L9KU9LS...
|
| The spreadsheet not being normalized is a bit annoying, but I
| could fix that if I really wanted to. All in all, I actually find
| using Google as a data source like this works pretty well.
| jonnydubowsky wrote:
| I just spent 20 minutes browsing your site, revisiting these
| epic scenes. Thanks for sharing!
| onesmalluser wrote:
| What add-on are you using to do that? I've been playing around
| using Lovely Table and Awesome Table for this purpose but not
| really sure which one I ultimately want.
| city41 wrote:
| The site is built with Gatsby using gatsby-source-google-
| sheets. The source is here: https://github.com/city41/fgbg
| (warning, it's pretty terrible. I built this thing very
| rapidly as at its heart it's really just an experiment).
|
| https://www.gatsbyjs.org/packages/gatsby-source-google-
| sheet...
| mikeryan wrote:
| It's a bit strange hitting the google redirect notice when
| linking from the site.
|
| You also might want to put your .idea directory and secrets in a
| .gitignore
| netsharc wrote:
| If I were to fork his code I'd fix that the first thing, I'd
| hate to annoy my users like that.
|
| Reminds me of this jwz post (you have to copy and paste
| manually since he doesn't like HN as a referrer:
| https://www.jwz.org/blog/2008/02/looking-forward-into-the-pa...
| ).
| cookiecaper wrote:
| Right-click -> Open in Private Tab/Window also strips the
| referrer, FYI.
| [deleted]
| gibolt wrote:
| This feels like such a weirdly specific block... You have a
| blog that you want people to read, but not people who come
| from a specific source
| harikb wrote:
| I wish IDEs (with collaboration from git) made it clear what
| should and shouldn't be checked in to source control (or rather
| they had a way to do both) - where I want to store per-person
| level settings as well as shareable settings.
|
| In this particular case though - IntelliJ itself would have
| prompted him to add these files - so those are in fact
| shareable files
|
| Note: I do know IntellJ purposely excludes workspace.xml , but
| these things should be handled much more explicitly and IDE
| should provide better conventions and guidance.
| Larrikin wrote:
| The .ignore plugin and the GitHub repo it is built around I
| think do the job well enough by having a list of suggestions.
| I may actually have a private repo and have all the settings
| on both computers that I use.
| RupertWiser wrote:
| Hah fortunately those secrets were never actually in use. I
| just did the unspeakable and quickly rebased master to update
| that though so thanks for that!
|
| I wasn't planning on sharing the code at first so I probably
| didn't give it as critical an eye as I should have. This was
| also a learning project for me to try out Kotlin so I'm sure
| there are a million things others would do far better.
| amenod wrote:
| It is soooooo easy for something that was just an experiment
| to get published somewhere, that I have learned (the hard
| way, multiple times) to never commit any secrets to a git
| repo. Well, _intentionally_ that is... but if I do it by
| mistake, I treat them as compromised and change them.
|
| Instead I just create a .env file and put them there. It's a
| bit more boilerplate but it is worth it when I don't need to
| decide between keeping secrets and having code history before
| publishing. And env vars are supported everywhere afaik.
| K0SM0S wrote:
| I'm more of a Markdown, maybe LaTeX guy myself, but 100% down
| with the author's approach.
|
| The simplest "CI/CD", and closest to the material (plain text
| files), is usually the best in practice, especially for a one-man
| operation.
|
| Iterate into complexity on a need-to-basis.
| puzzlingcaptcha wrote:
| I personally like Pelican as a static blog generator that
| parses Markdown content.
|
| https://blog.getpelican.com/
| factorialboy wrote:
| The URL to your GitLab project goes via a Google redirect. I'm
| guessing this in an unintentional side-effect of using Google
| Docs as CMS?
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