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I'm into this---it's kind of like the anti-Medium. Might try and use it for ad-hoc blogging. Maybe an experiment?

The biggest advantage with medium is the visibility of your blog post. Why not just use google blogspot website if all you want is just adhoc blogging?

Blogspot.com is terribly heavyweight and requires JS.

Agree. I find my use case for a small, personal site cum blog perfectly satisfied by Github Pages. Plain HTML and CSS, no Javascript. Now that Github Pages has Let's Encrypt support, there's no need to front it with Cloudflare (though the SSL support right now is not without bugs. The auto-renewal for my domain has been stuck for months now.)

Netlify works for me with SSL and Let's Encrypt. Auto renewal works, I deploy from GitHub and use their CDN. Easy peasy.

> cum blog

Eww ;)

Isn't it "come", short for become?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cum

First entry:

> : along with being : AND —used to form usually hyphenated phrases

Thanks for pointing that out! I guess I've once again proven how lacking my understanding of the English language really is.

But that's how it often is as a non native speaker ... Everything is fine until you have the strangest misconception.

Well, technically it's showing a lack of understanding of the Latin language, since "cum" is Latin for "with".

Honestly I do perfectly fine with a host and some autogeneration. I have considered just editing the raw HTML and keeping it in git, but it seems a tad pointless.

He said anti-medium which meant he was opposed to the visibility too. Also, blogspot is still heavy when it comes to account creation and what not.

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