Idea: Habla as personal blog in github pages

[Giszmo]

Apparently it is possible to host single page apps on GitHub Pages and installing Habla on my instance was easy enough. That got me thinking: Why not have a personal blog backed by nostr using Habla with a tiny tiny tweak: Allow me to configure in the instance to set a list of pubkeys that may publish there. Boom, you have a personal blog where only I may publish but my posts can be intereacted with by all Nostriches on all Habla instances. With GitHub pages it couldn't be easier to deploy, right?

• Fork repo
• set npub using the github editor
• save

[Giszmo]

https://github.com/verbiricha/habla/compare/master...Giszmo:habla:personalBlog?expand=1

This is not finished as for a personal blog, one would probably want to define the relays and not show all these bells and whistles.

[verbiricha]

Hey Giszmo, I've experimented with this idea but prerendering all the content since the pubkeys you are interested in are known, have an example at https://nosutora.vercel.app/ Is not open source but the nblog project https://github.com/jacany/nblog does a similar thing. I want to keep Habla more like a platform for discovering other authors/relays.

[Giszmo]

I replied to that objection on nostr already. There is some problems with that:

You have to either re-render your static site on new events of the authors or provide a dynamic caching backend of sorts. I agree this allows for a more performant and consistent user experience as centralized services always do but would be more demanding on the blogger to setup.