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Thomas Puppe
Personal blog · blog.thomaspuppe.dewebprogramming
Thomas Puppe's personal blog at blog.thomaspuppe.de covers web and programming. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Generate static sites from Markdown files with Caddy (2018)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-12-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's post on serving a static site from a markdown repo with Caddy, as an alternative to publishing ideas on Medium. Commenters point to it as a how-to for the older Caddy version.
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.
Easto static-site generator
Most-linked posts?
- Generate static sites from Markdown files with Caddy (2018)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-07-22
What Hacker News says?
Posted this deeper in thread, also noting up here: Just serve your markdown git repo using Caddy. https://caddyserver.com/docs/markdown ”Caddy is both a flexible, efficient static file server and a powerful, scalable reverse proxy. Use it to serve your static site with compression, template evaluation, Markdown rendering, and more.” https://caddyserver.com/ Here’s a blog on doing this with the older version of Caddy…
Comment linking /static-sites-from-markdown-with-caddy-server
on “Medium is not the home for your ideas”Submitted Generate static sites from Markdown files with Caddy (2018) as a story · 106 points
HN discussionSo ... just serve your markdown repo using Caddy. https://caddyserver.com/docs/markdown ”Caddy is both a flexible, efficient static file server and a powerful, scalable reverse proxy. Use it to serve your static site with compression, template evaluation, Markdown rendering, and more.” https://caddyserver.com/ Here’s a blog on doing this with the older version of Caddy: https://blog.thomaspuppe.de/static-sites-from-…
Comment linking /static-sites-from-markdown-with-caddy-server
on “Medium is not the home for your ideas”Submitted How to make your shiny new brutalist website brutally fast as a story · 4 points
HN discussion