We're building Xr0 and enjoy writing about it.

Substack offers great interactivity, but isn't built for technical writing. It has poor support for code: no syntax highlighting and the inline code rendering is jarring. Plus, we want to manage our blog posts as text files with Git.

Existing static-site generators like Jekyll and Hugo are powerful but seem to prioritise customisability over writing. Names like assets, layouts, data, includes etc. dominate project folders instead of your actual writing. There's nothing wrong with this; we just want something simpler, so we built Hyloblog.

Hyloblog is

🚀 Launch a Hyloblog in 5 minutes

  1. Create a repo on GitHub with a file called index.md.
  2. Log in and hit Create new blog.