Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024?

#1

Post by _8j50 » Sat, Jul 20, 2024, 7:37 AM UTC

I want to share technical blog content but I want to author it as I am developing the content easily, screenshots and markdown would be ideal and I don't want to self host things.

What is the ideal tool to help create quality content?

Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024?

#2

Post by curious_curios » Sat, Jul 20, 2024, 7:45 AM UTC

If you want simple, free and flexible you can build a static site blog with Hugo and host on GitHub Pages.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024?

#3

Post by homarp » Sat, Jul 20, 2024, 8:07 AM UTC

self-host gives you flavor though (your own domain, absolute choice in what you can use, and of course 'meta content' (this is how i host this blog, vs github pages, vs medium

as for the quality of the content, it is usually a mix of personal experience (e.g. https://jvns.ca/blog/, https://folklore.org/0-index.html, https://www.filfre.net/ ) and number of hours to write.it

Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024?

#4

Post by torunar » Sat, Jul 20, 2024, 8:40 AM UTC

Whatever way you choose, don’t forget to include an RSS feed for your blog.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024?

#5

Post by nyc111 » Sat, Jul 20, 2024, 9:19 AM UTC

Blogger is still around. Themes look very old fashioned but I think overall it's good enough to publish. This blog https://www.filfre.net/2024/07/the-later-years-of-douglas-ad... was on first page on HN a couple of days ago and it is blogger.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024?

#6

Post by cpach » Sat, Jul 20, 2024, 12:15 PM UTC

If you don’t want to self-host then Ghost or wordpress.com might be worth checking out.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024?

#7

Post by manuelmoreale » Sat, Jul 20, 2024, 12:46 PM UTC

Not sure which one’s the ideal tool but I’m slowly collecting them all here: https://manuelmoreale.com/blog-platforms

Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024?

#8

Post by j_bum » Sat, Jul 20, 2024, 1:13 PM UTC

I love Quarto [0] and use GitHub pages for hosting.

Quarto works nicely with several IDEs, and works out of the box with both Python, R, and Observable JS. Typst support was also just added, but I haven’t explored that yet.

The documentation is also extensive. Here is the link to setting up a blog [1].

[0] https://quarto.org/

[1] https://quarto.org/docs/websites/website-blog.html