Comment by wood_spirit
5 days ago
I set up a friend’s prolific blog with a very similar approach many years ago using pelican and pushing to a git server vps where a tiny custom python wevserver serves whatever is in git.
Only friend has struggled to get pelican and git etc set up on a new laptop. And tbh I am lost - and horrified - at the latest windows. Not keen on being tech support and working out why python command hangs etc.
And my custom vps setup doesn’t do tls. And I don’t want to try.
So I’m wondering if there are any alternatives? Is there a web frontend for blogging straight to ghpages, for example?
Run things in WSL instead of Windows native? Python, git, Pelican, etc. should just work there, as it's just Linux. VSCode can open WSL folders directly. WSL git operating in Windows folders does work, but it's slow and occasionally has strange errors.
Maybe your friend should pay someone (not you) for tech support. It shouldn't take that long
just use WSL to run python sighs