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Michael Morehouse
Personal blog · yawpitchroll.comprogrammingculture
Michael Morehouse writes yawpitchroll, a personal blog at yawpitchroll.com about programming and culture. Since 2019, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Hugo Probably Isn't for You (2019)”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's post arguing that Hugo, a static site generator, is probably not for many people, citing its poor documentation and difficult experience. The post is cited as support for their own experiences.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The electronic home of Michael Morehouse; coder, VFX pipeline expert, sometimes world-weary adventurer, and, currently, narrowboat skipper.
Most-linked posts?
- Hugo Probably Isn't for You (2019)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-08-24
- The 35 (Key)Words You Need to Python3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-07-29
What Hacker News says?
Note to reader: the link is mangled up a little I think because of the closing parentheses? Here is a link without parentheses https://yawpitchroll.com/posts/hugo-probably-is-not-for-you/
Comment linking /posts/hugo-probably-is-not-for-you/
on “Minimum Viable Hugo – No CSS, no JavaScript, 1 static HTML page to start you off”Submitted Hugo Probably Isn't for You (2019) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFour years ago Bep was rewriting the docs because they were incomprehensible ( https://yawpitchroll.com/posts/hugo-probably-is-not-for-you/... last week I started looking again, and I wouldn’t say anything has improved, nor do I expect it to in 4 more.
Comment linking /posts/hugo-probably-is-not-for-you/)%E2%80%A6
on “Minimum Viable Hugo – No CSS, no JavaScript, 1 static HTML page to start you off”Submitted The 35 (Key)Words You Need to Python as a story · 2 points
HN discussionConsider looking at Bear, who seem to have a workaround? https://bear.app/faq/Import%20%26%20export/Migrate%20from%20... My personal experience with Hugo was emphatically not great, and my recent re-experience with it has been worse… the sunk cost fallacy is powerful, so while I’m sure you could do it with Hugo, I’m not going to recommend you try it. https://yawpitchroll.com/posts/hugo-probably-is-not-for-you/
Comment linking /posts/hugo-probably-is-not-for-you/
on “Ask HN: Export Apple Notes as a Hugo Blog?”Submitted Words You Need to Python as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Words You Need to Python as a story · 1 points
HN discussion