Anil DashApr 26, 2024
One of the great curses in technology is that, if you’ve ever built a content management system, especially a blogging tool, you can never stop building better ones in your head, even though the actual products in reality never get any better. Here @mathowie falls down the rabbit hole again. https://a.wholelottanothing.org/a-blueprint-of-my-dream-blogging-cms/
Ideas for my dream blogging CMS

Ever since I changed over from Wordpress to Ghost to power this site, I've gotten emails and replies asking me if Ghost is really good and worth making the jump from any other blogging engines. My answer is this: it's currently the least bad one out there, but it is

A Whole Lotta Nothing
Show threadScott Yoshinaga
@anildash what are you currently using for your CMS? BTW I almost got to meet you when I was visiting SixApart in SF wayyy back when… you were in a meeting in someone's office.
Apr 26, 2024 at 4:31pmIvory for Mac
Show threadAnil DashApr 26, 2024
@kimonostereo I’ve been using @eleventy on @glitchdotcom and I love it. I can just write when I wanna write, and there’s fun easy stuff to tinker with when I wanna do that.
Show threadScott YoshinagaApr 26, 2024
@anildash Thank you for sharing! I really need to look at Eleventy. I've been looking at options as it's getting quite expensive to stick with Movable Type.
Show threadBob MonsourApr 27, 2024
@kimonostereo @anildash If you're ever looking to see what others are doing with #11ty, I built a site with more than 1,000 blog posts covering a lot of ground. https://11tybundle.dev/
The 11ty Bundle

Your curated source for discovering how the community is using 11ty, a simple, flexible, open-source static site generator. With loads of resources: 1687 blog posts from 497 authors across 53 categories, 36 starter projects, and much more.