Since trying to work on building a zero-cost low-maintenance static blog, one of the things I noticed was how constraining Jekyll was about the datestamp being in the filename. Trying to change it afterwards required renaming the file, which confuses NetlifyCMS, and seems all sorts of unnecessary. Yes, I know you can …

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A headless CMS So the search for a way to edit and add entries to a static site on GitLab Pages (as this site is) is over! The (in my opinion misnamed) NetlifyCMS headless CMS is a brilliant solution to providing in-browser rich updating and editing of a static site. It deploys as a react app, but can authorize to …

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Interesting, at least I think the basic free model works for what I need. I'm not even using it for any compilation or building; it's just committing changes made back to the GitLab repo, and that is doing it's own build/deploy as part of GitLab Pages. Forestry.io looks to support plenty of static site generators, and …

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