GitHub

My brother came to me recently because he wanted to have a website where he could post information. As so many people do these days, he asked ChatGPT what he should use. It told him github. I told him that github is only for code as far as I know. I have about 20 repositories out there. And then I did some research, and sure enough, github does host static pages. But that's an important distinction. My brother created the account, and so I thought I would just put the code up there and then have a cron job run to update his pages. It doesn't quite work like that. You can use Github Actions to run things, but that's a lot more trouble than I'm interested in. So instead I just put the pages up there, and run things locally on my machine from my cron. What I do is generate the pages locally, then do git add for the pages, then git commit, and then finally git push. So he's got his website, and nobody has to spend any money.