<![CDATA[My "project time" this week (when I try to improve something about my business) was spent on investigating how to move from our current blog generating tool, hugo, to @stefano's BSSG.]]>My "project time" this week (when I try to improve something about my business) was spent on investigating how to move from our current blog generating tool, hugo, to @stefano's BSSG.

So far, so good! I'm not quite ready to switch over just yet, but it has been pretty straightforward so far.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/c2eb609b-3d68-42ec-8f89-4fc791a6909d/my-project-time-this-week-when-i-try-to-improve-something-about-my-business-was-spent-on-investigating-how-to-move-from-our-current-blog-generating-tool-hugo-to-@stefano-s-bssg.RSS for NodeMon, 06 Apr 2026 15:09:38 GMTFri, 13 Mar 2026 17:24:30 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to My "project time" this week (when I try to improve something about my business) was spent on investigating how to move from our current blog generating tool, hugo, to @stefano's BSSG. on Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:39:19 GMT]]>I now have a minimal theme, with dark mode support!

It is on a test URL, but if anyone fancies seeing what I'm doing with (Bash Static Site Generator), here's where I am so far:

404 Not Found

favicon

(decoded.legal)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/users/neil/statuses/116223558256001256https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/users/neil/statuses/116223558256001256Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:39:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My "project time" this week (when I try to improve something about my business) was spent on investigating how to move from our current blog generating tool, hugo, to @stefano's BSSG. on Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:37:28 GMT]]>@neil yes, exactly. It can also be specified in the config file. I'm not sure if it will automatically be used if a templates directory is created in the project folder. It was planned, but I can't remember if I already implemented it or not (can't check the code right now)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/stefano/statuses/116223315052409035https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/stefano/statuses/116223315052409035Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:37:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My "project time" this week (when I try to improve something about my business) was spent on investigating how to move from our current blog generating tool, hugo, to @stefano's BSSG. on Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:36:12 GMT]]>@stefano

```
--templates DIR Override templates directory (from config: TEMPLATES_DIR)
```

🙂

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/users/neil/statuses/116223310041680642https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/users/neil/statuses/116223310041680642Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:36:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My "project time" this week (when I try to improve something about my business) was spent on investigating how to move from our current blog generating tool, hugo, to @stefano's BSSG. on Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:31:30 GMT]]>@neil maybe you need to set the TEMPLATES_DIR="/home/stefano/sites/my-notes/templates" (for example) inside the config.sh.local in the project directory. I can't remember if I implemented it automatically or has to be set manually. Otherwise, you can override it at build time with --templates "dir"

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/stefano/statuses/116223288170538171https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/stefano/statuses/116223288170538171Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:31:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My "project time" this week (when I try to improve something about my business) was spent on investigating how to move from our current blog generating tool, hugo, to @stefano's BSSG. on Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:25:04 GMT]]>@neil great. I love to separate tool from contents, too. It's much easier to keep things clean, this way.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/stefano/statuses/116223266321912551https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/stefano/statuses/116223266321912551Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:25:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My "project time" this week (when I try to improve something about my business) was spent on investigating how to move from our current blog generating tool, hugo, to @stefano's BSSG. on Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:24:18 GMT]]>@stefano I love the separate of tool from content, so that much I am already doing - but I had not realised that one could use per-project/directory templates too. I will experiment 🙂

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/users/neil/statuses/116223263291204886https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/users/neil/statuses/116223263291204886Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:24:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My "project time" this week (when I try to improve something about my business) was spent on investigating how to move from our current blog generating tool, hugo, to @stefano's BSSG. on Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:23:37 GMT]]>@stefano

> consider that the templates can be overridden per-project, in the project directory

Oooh, thank you. I had not identified this from the documentation, so thank you!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/users/neil/statuses/116223260598270471https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/users/neil/statuses/116223260598270471Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:23:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My "project time" this week (when I try to improve something about my business) was spent on investigating how to move from our current blog generating tool, hugo, to @stefano's BSSG. on Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:22:50 GMT]]>@neil Interesting! Could you please send me the errors you had when using ram mode? So I can debug them.

Those config parameters are a good idea. I'm adding them to the templates, too - consider that the templates can be overridden per-project, in the project directory - so you can use the same BSSG installation as long as it points to different configurations (generated with ./bssg.sh init )

For example, I'm currently building the https://my-notes.dragas.net (my "reference" blog for bssg testing) with: ./bssg.sh build -f --config /home/stefano/sites/my-notes/config.sh.local --build-mode ram

Thank you for your precious feedback!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/stefano/statuses/116223257488011133https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/stefano/statuses/116223257488011133Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:22:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My "project time" this week (when I try to improve something about my business) was spent on investigating how to move from our current blog generating tool, hugo, to @stefano's BSSG. on Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:19:23 GMT]]>@stefano

This is an amazing tool - thank you!

"RAM" mode caused quite a lot of errors for me, so I switched to "normal" mode, and that is building fine.

Do you have any plans to add config parameters (to be used in the header template), for

<meta name="fediverse:creator" content="{{fedi-creator}}" />

or

<link rel="me" href="{{fedi_validation_account"/>

?

At the moment, I am adding them to the template without variables, meaning that I'll need multiple instances of BSSG, one per site 🙂

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/users/neil/statuses/116223243960397721https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/users/neil/statuses/116223243960397721Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:19:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My "project time" this week (when I try to improve something about my business) was spent on investigating how to move from our current blog generating tool, hugo, to @stefano's BSSG. on Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:13:29 GMT]]>@neil That's great! Please note that the unreleased master branch includes a very effective RAM-only build mode, which makes things significantly faster. Also, three new BSD-based themes are coming 🙂

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/stefano/statuses/116223220757949600https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/stefano/statuses/116223220757949600Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:13:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My "project time" this week (when I try to improve something about my business) was spent on investigating how to move from our current blog generating tool, hugo, to @stefano's BSSG. on Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:38:20 GMT]]>@neil @stefano I went from Wordpress to Github pages w/ Copilot.

I'm dirty but it's free and I can just use an agent to write a post for me as I provide an agents.md file to outline my writing style: https://github.com/JohnMcLear/blog/blob/main/agents.md#writing--engineering-style

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.green/users/johnmclear/statuses/116223082502906262https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.green/users/johnmclear/statuses/116223082502906262Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:38:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My "project time" this week (when I try to improve something about my business) was spent on investigating how to move from our current blog generating tool, hugo, to @stefano's BSSG. on Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:31:50 GMT]]>@RootMoose @stefano

I am writing it as I go along.

I have some bits I need to figure out first (like how best to deal with editing the header template).

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/users/neil/statuses/116223056969985075https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/users/neil/statuses/116223056969985075Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:31:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My "project time" this week (when I try to improve something about my business) was spent on investigating how to move from our current blog generating tool, hugo, to @stefano's BSSG. on Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:30:55 GMT]]>@neil @stefano Web post with all the "gotchas" when? 🙃

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/RootMoose/statuses/116223053384590530https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/RootMoose/statuses/116223053384590530Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:30:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to My "project time" this week (when I try to improve something about my business) was spent on investigating how to move from our current blog generating tool, hugo, to @stefano's BSSG. on Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:28:17 GMT]]>@neil @stefano nice. Keen to see how you get on. I am using 11ty at the moment but given the recent news I am not sure whether it is the long term choice.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.alexhyett.com/users/alex/statuses/01KKM3VTSQVKN1JC63ES23MCBFhttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.alexhyett.com/users/alex/statuses/01KKM3VTSQVKN1JC63ES23MCBFFri, 13 Mar 2026 17:28:17 GMT