I originally made it a couple of years ago as a small proof of concept. A couple of weeks ago I started it over and have been using it as a project to work with Claude and learn approaches to coding with AI.

It's been a lot of fun.

A lot of times I end up with sets of commands I want to run in a project directory: building packages, running ansible to deploy things, cleaning up files, etc.

Makefiles always felt rather overkill for this and I like having just a YAML file with the name, description, and commands that are available and for a menu to display with that information.

This is that program. I had originally written it many years ago in Perl. I have been learning Go and this seemed like a great project to port.

I hope you find it useful, thanks for reading!

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That's super awesome too, this is not so different under the hood, I used libxml for getting the content and pandoc for converting -- pandoc turned out to be by far the best of the tools I tried for that aspect.

It won't necessarily keep the URLs stable, they'll be made based on the title of the post.

That's a cool solution for the ?p= issues, this doesn't handle it but when I've done it for for sites I host I usually use nginx's rewrite rules. I think for query rewriting you need to additionally use the map directive, but I was only handling directory vs .html and things like that.

Thank you again for commenting, I like your site!

It does put your files into a Hugo directory structure and includes the smol theme. It doesn't recreate your theme, plugins, or process your images, but I also have tried to be very explicit that it just converts your pages and posts and is the starting point for a conversion.

When you put an export file through it, you'll end up on this page: https://imgur.com/a/UUMB6ve where you can download a zip or tgz of the site and you'll clearly understand what you're getting before you can choose if you want to have the remaining pages/posts converted.

Really the reason I picked Hugo is because that's what the person I was talking to wanted. He'd only found contractors who would charge more than he wanted to pay to do a manual conversion, and said even something that just got his pages and posts over would be worthwhile to him.

I have more experience with Jekyll. In fact, I had tried to start a hosted platform with a CMS for it that I opened sourced a while back (https://github.com/symkat/MyJekyllBlog) but it never really got traction.

At this point I'm actively looking for a new job and figured getting this on Hacker News might be helpful for that.

I hadn't heard of Astro before, it looks neat!

Thanks for the 413 note! I've just upped the client_max_body_size if you want to give it a try again.

My service only converts the blog posts and pages themself and helps you get started on a conversion.

I made this project to read a WordPress export and create the markdown files for Hugo. It'll speed up the process of moving your blog over to Hugo and let you avoid a bunch of manual work.

It came about when I was talking to somebody who was trying to move their site over and didn't want to manually copy and reformat all their posts. They had trouble finding a tool to do it, so I wrote one.

I want to make sure it's useful to people before charging them, so it'll give you a download with 3 pages and 5 blog posts converted for free and without asking for any information. If you like what you see, there is a one-time charge through Stripe to convert everything.

I hope you find it useful, and I welcome any and all feedback on it!

Thanks for reading!

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https://github.com/symkat/MyJekyllBlog - It’s centered around hosting Jekyll blogs. It supports having paid user accounts (Stripe), building sites (uses podman containers), deploying built sites to web servers, obtaining SSL certificates for the sites it hosts.

It’s been really fun to work on.

GitHub Pages is a closed source hosting platform. MyJekyllBlog is open source and MIT licensed.

As far as I’m aware, you cannot spin up your own version of GitHub Pages to host things for yourself and offer those hosting services to others. MyJekyllBlog encourages this and has a guide (https://github.com/symkat/MyJekyllBlog#installation-guide) for setting it up yourself.

I’m very excited to show you MyJekyllBlog, a blog hosting platform I have been working on.

Two months ago I shared the GitHub link for the project, and since then I have introduced free demo accounts so you can try it out, improved the templates offered, and introduced import/export functionality so that you can download or upload a tgz of the Jekyll site. The development process is written about on https://tech.myjekyllblog.com/

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It does use a few different IPs/servers, and I think some could be combined. If you do end up moving towards replacing yours with this, I’ve got an article written with more information on setting it up for doing development: https://tech.myjekyllblog.com/2022/12/14/setting-up-a-develo...

Thanks again, I appreciate your feedback!

I want to show you something I’ve been working on: MyJekyllBlog.

It’s a multi-user CMS and hosting platform for Jekyll blogs. There is a web application that users can register on, and from that web app they can create Jekyll blogs, manage posts and media. When they make those updates, their blog is rebuilt with the Jekyll and the site is deployed to web servers.

The installation process is codified into the included ansible/ directory and instructions are included in the README for installation. So far I’ve been the only one working on it or installing it, so there is bound to be bugs and things I’ve missed, please feel free to open issues against the repository if you run into anything.

It supports three different user registration modes: open where anyone can sign up for an account, invite where anyone with an invite code can sign up for an account, and stripe where users must use a credit card to subscribe immediately after signing up for an account before they can access the site. You can enable more than one registration mode.

The entire system is open source and MIT licensed, including the installation process, devops tools, and billing code.

Thank you for taking a look!

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TodayChecklist provides a way of getting boiler-plate documents filled out and printed quickly. I do a lot of planning in notebooks and on paper, but fall back to various tools on the computer for longer-form writing, like project outlines.

One of the templates in TodayChecklist is for projects and asks me for the name of the project, what it looks like for it to be successful, why I am doing it, and finally a list of steps to complete the project. Once I answer those questions, I can print it out and drop it in with my paper system.

There are default templates like that and various checklists, and you can make your own templates with your own questions to answer too.

I’m very excited because this is the first time I’ve used Stripe to directly monetize a website. You can sign up for free and make up to 7 documents and 5 templates, if you find it useful past that you can subscribe for unlimited documents and templates.

Finally, the whole thing is open source[0], and includes an ansible role for installing on Debian 11.

Thank you for reading and I hope you find it useful!

0: https://github.com/symkat/TodayChecklist

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