• simonw a day ago

    Suggestion: instead of telling people to fork the repository, set this up as a GitHub template repository instead.

    Example from one of my projects: https://github.com/simonw/shot-scraper-template

    • MaxGripe 20 hours ago

      Oh, very interesting! Thanks for the suggestion! This is indeed a more elegant approach! However, I do have some concerns about introducing an additional dependency. My main goal was to create something that would be maximally simplified. Nevertheless, I'll test how it would work with the template feature - at first glance, it really looks like a better solution and I'll definitely try it!

      • ljouhet 17 hours ago
    • namanyayg a day ago

      Doesn't this already exist with Jekyll?

      • MaxGripe 20 hours ago

        Yes! This is just a much more simplified solution - just fork and go, without the need to deal with configuration and themes. Think of it as a lightweight alternative when you need just the basic Markdown-to-HTML blog with GitHub Pages hosting

      • ulrischa 16 hours ago

        Good solution. But for what the Program.fs? The conversion from md to html could be done within the action with more common languages and state of the art libraries for this job.

        • MaxGripe 13 hours ago

          Thank you! I like unconventional solutions! And yes, I really like F# :) In this case, the Markdown conversion is done using the excellent FSharp.Formatting library

          • spookie 15 hours ago

            The person wanted to use F# :)