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Michael Rose
Personal blog · mademistakes.com/articlesprogrammingweb
Michael Rose writes Made Mistakes, a personal blog at mademistakes.com about programming and web. Since 2017, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Going static part 2: static comments”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Michael Rose's page of Jekyll theme recommendations. One comment also cites an article on alternatives to Disqus for commenting on static blogs.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The personal website and blog of Michael Rose.
Most-linked posts?
- Going static part 2: static comments2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-04-04
What Hacker News says?
Nicely done! In case people are visiting the discussion looking for more no-nonsense Jekyll theme recommendations, I recently came across this beautiful collection that seems to fit the bill: https://mademistakes.com/work/jekyll-themes/
Comment linking /work/jekyll-themes/
on “Show HN: A no-nonsense Jekyll theme for sensible blogging”Submitted Minimal Mistakes Jekyll Theme as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm also stuck with Disqus and want to switch for the same reason. Here are some ideas to get your own comment system running: StaticMan[0], Isso[1], Netlify GoTell[2]. This article[3] brings up some more ideas. For my small blog with 1-2 comments a month I'm thinking about implementing a small form and include comments manually using front-matter options or a separate comments file. This would make the comments ful…
Comment linking /articles/jekyll-static-comments/
on “Ask HN: Should I ditch disqus and what are some alternatives”Submitted Going static part 2: static comments as a story · 1 points
HN discussion