Thank you!

Totally get that. My post was meant as a way, not the way. I already use Obsidian for most of my writing and notes, so this setup just fits naturally into my workflow.

That makes sense. I too use Obsidian for just about all of my notes (and nvAlt before that -- my Obsidian notes archive dates back over thirteen years). I think the key difference is that I don't use the Git CLI on a daily basis, so dropping down into the terminal to use git to publish a blog post seems like too much work.

Keeping Hugo installed and up to date as part of the publish process seems like a headache as well. I like the blog to be totally separate from my local machine, so if I change anything or switch laptops, it doesn't interfere with the publication process.

Manually adding the Hugo front matter to each post also strikes me as annoyingly fiddly, although you could use a text expander app to handle most of it. Another issue is that I'm not sure that Markdown would do well for the full scope of formatting, such as aligning images and adding image captions.

But I’d say “infinite lifetime” only holds as long as your hardware, power, and IP setup stay stable. If your home machine dies or your router resets, things go offline fast.

That’s part of why I prefer hosting the static output somewhere external. Not perfect, but it lets me step away from the setup for months and still have it running.

Yes, I do need society to continue existing and for me to not be homeless. I guess I hadn't considered the needs of the unhoused. For them self-hosting is going to be a problem. For everyone else, not a problem. Going briefly offline for a week literally doesn't matter at all. This isn't a business or institutional service. Once you stop trying to fulfill the needs and constraints typical of those endevors you can see just how easy it is.

As for IP, when it changes you can just copy the new IP and stop sending links with the old IP to friends. It's not a big deal. But a domain is nice (either some dyndns subdomain or a real tld with free DNS hosting (and dyndns updates) by zoneedit or the like).

Nice setup.

Yeah, I do commit drafts. My repo’s private, so I don’t mind keeping everything versioned there, including posts still marked as draft: true.

ah yes, I was going to mention that if it's private then it's not an issue.

What I meant by "fully-owned" is really about owning the content and the workflow: everything lives locally in plain text, versioned in Git, and built with open tools. I can move it to any host without being locked into a platform or losing anything.

You're right that hosting on GitHub and Cloudflare isn't infrastructure ownership. I should’ve been more precise with the wording.

True, Blogspot is simpler. But if it ever shuts down or changes policies, you’re at their mercy - and exporting your content cleanly could be a mess. With this setup, everything is just Markdown files and Git. I can move it anywhere, anytime, no lock-in.

Nice, didn’t know that. Will try it out, thanks!

I’m not totally sure, but Obsidian does have built-in spellcheck, and there are some community plugins like LanguageTool that might help with grammar. Haven’t used them extensively myself, but they could be worth checking out.

Github Pages also works, I used Cloudflare since almost all my other projects are hosted there + I use it to manage DNS.

Understandable. I went with GH Pages for my new blog pretty much entirely because that's what my old site already used.

I just like keeping all my writing in one place, separate from coding. Obsidian gives me that focused space, and I’ve set it up with a nice font and minimal theme that fits how I like to write.