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Brooks Garrett

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Brooks Garrett's personal blog at brooksgarrett.com covers programming and web. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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2015–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2015

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Why HN links it

HN readers link this post as a write-up of a static site setup: Jekyll on GitHub, built by TravisCI, hosted on S3 and fronted by CloudFlare. One commenter compares it with Netlify's hosting offering.

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  1. How is this different from GitHub hosted source(Free), compiled by TravisCI (Free), hosted in S3($15/year), secured byand fronted by CloudFlare (Free). This is my setup (minus CloudFlare for CDN). http://brooksgarrett.com/blog/jekyll-github-travisci-s3/ Is the value in simply abstracting away the (fairly technical) setup which would normally be a barrier for non technical businesses?

    Comment linking /blog/jekyll-github-travisci-s3/

    on “Show HN: Netlify – Builds, Deploys and Hosts Your Static Site or App”
  2. Submitted Developing for Alexa as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Git History is Forever as a story · 1 points

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