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  "title": "micro.blog on Chris Hunsanger",
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        "title": "Platform Investigation: Eleventy vs. Micro.blog vs. Weblog.lol ",
        "content_html": "<p>I have been interested in sharing more online, and decided to finally do a true deep-dive into the options out there to host a blog.</p>\n<h2 id=\"background-and-evaluation\">Background and Evaluation</h2>\n<p>I have been a happy Micro.blog subscriber but never really used it to the fullest for &ldquo;blogging&rdquo;. I am not a big writer by any means, but enjoy sharing interesting things I come across. Maybe it&rsquo;s a link to an article, or an attempt to share a take on the latest tech thing in my life.</p>\n<p>This eventually led me to evaluate the services in my life and how I use them. Previously I had my &ldquo;homepage&rdquo; which was just a link to this blog hosted on Micro.blog. I decided I wanted to change that up, and found that &ldquo;hunsanger.blog&rdquo; was available, and decided to move my blog content to that dedicated site, while moving my new &ldquo;webpage&rdquo; (omg.lol terminology) to be my home-base for my socials at hunsanger.com.</p>\n<p>After seeing praises sung by <a href=\"https://rknight.me/\">Robb Knight</a>, I decided to check out Eleventy which honestly I came very close to using. I liked that I could have a clean Obsidian → GitHub → Netlify workflow that would allow me to do most of my blogging in my current note-taking application of choice. The customization options were limitless, and there was certainly a level of freedom about it that did call to me. The #1 feature I loved was the ability to locally view and tweak my theme and then push changes to GitHub.</p>\n<p>I also evaluated Weblog.lol (service offered through my omg.lol subscription) and it really is a good balance of functionality and convenience all while natively supporting markdown. I found the handling of templates to be a bit fiddly for my taste and customization was especially tricky but I&rsquo;m anxiously going to check out <a href=\"https://neato.pub/\">Neato</a> offered by Neatnik (who is behind omg.lol) when it is released.</p>\n<h2 id=\"how-i-landed-on-microblog\">How I landed on Micro.blog</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Responsive developer (I emailed Manton Reece about an issue I ran into with my theme and received multiple emails the same day answering my question)</li>\n<li>It jives with how I want to use this space, which is as a collaborative easy to use multi-platformed hub of content. For example, Manton was quick to add BlueSky and Mastodon posting and integration with Micro.blog which I already am using and enjoying.</li>\n<li>Great linkblogging support. <em>Here is a great rundown on link-blogging from Manton that I came across when figuring out how to set this up with Micro.blog <a href=\"https://book.micro.blog/linkblogging/\">Linkblogging · Indie Microblogging</a></em>\n<ul>\n<li>Solid input support\n<ul>\n<li>Does it have an app? Yes</li>\n<li>Does it work with Drafts? Yes</li>\n<li>Does it work with MarsEdit? Yes</li>\n<li>Does it support Markdown natively for posts? Yes</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<h2 id=\"plans\">Plans</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>I want to post more, and specifically like the idea of doing more linkblogging in my admittedly limited free-time. I have four kids to entertain when I&rsquo;m not working, and squeezing in time to write lengthy blog-posts just are not in the cards. Linkblogging with quick-takes feels doable.</li>\n<li>I&rsquo;ll re-evaluate the long-term blog platform when Neato comes out. I do like the idea of having things even more customizable (like Eleventy) and I would say that is not off the table by any means.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>For fun here are some blog screenshots I played around with during my evaluation period.</p>\n<h3 id=\"eleventy\">Eleventy</h3>\n<img style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https://hunsanger.blog/uploads/2025/eleventy-blog.png\" alt=\"CleanShot 2025-03-14 at 08.52.57@2x.\" title=\"Eleventy-blog.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"1408\" height=\"1564\" />\n<h3 id=\"webloglol\">Weblog.lol</h3>\n<img style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https://hunsanger.blog/uploads/2025/untitledimage.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"UntitledImage.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"895\" height=\"551\" />\n",
        "date_published": "2025-03-19T17:43:12-04:00",
        "url": "https://hunsanger.blog/2025/03/19/platform-investigation-eleventy-vs-microblog.html",
        "tags": ["eleventy","micro.blog"]
      }
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