Ask HN: What are good blogging platforms for programmers?

#1

Post by hhimanshu » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 4:53 PM UTC

I have been thinking to write blogs for what I learn during weekends.

I am looking for blogging platforms where I can share what I learn, share code snippets.

Please share your advices on what tools to use

Thank you

Re: Ask HN: What are good blogging platforms for programmers?

#2

Post by minimaxir » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 4:58 PM UTC

Using Jekyll (w/ a good theme) + GitHub Pages is more than sufficient. More importantly, it's free, fast, and can handle large amounts of traffic, such as the front page of Hacker News.

A year ago, I used Wordpress on shared hosting, then my service was terminated once I hit the front page of HN (~300 concurrent users). I've been using Jekyll + GitHub Pages since, and I've had no issues whatsoever, aside from the occasional GitHub outages.

Re: Ask HN: What are good blogging platforms for programmers?

#3

Post by duiker101 » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 4:58 PM UTC

I am not sure it's really what you need but coderwall.com is nice

Re: Ask HN: What are good blogging platforms for programmers?

#4

Post by brianbarker » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 5:07 PM UTC

You can share snippets on any platform using either github snippets or an html/js code formatter like https://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/downloads/lis....

Rather than host your own, I prefer just going with tumblr or something slick. I do like tumblr for its social connectedness, easy sharing and liking. Whatever floats your boat, though.

Re: Ask HN: What are good blogging platforms for programmers?

#5

Post by JelteF » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 5:11 PM UTC

You should try Ghost. I've had a good experiences with it. It still has some quirks though like mobile editing (viewing works fine). But it's officially still in beta so that is to be expected.

It uses markdown, has lots of themes (some paid, some free, some OSS), you can host it yourself.

https://ghost.org/

Re: Ask HN: What are good blogging platforms for programmers?

#6

Post by Deusdies » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 5:11 PM UTC

I was using Nikola for some time, but Github Pages + Jekyll is a good alternative. Though I am currently using WordPress (not that anyone is visiting it), I think I may look into Ghost.

Re: Ask HN: What are good blogging platforms for programmers?

#7

Post by oddevan » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 5:12 PM UTC

I definitely recommend deploying static pages (either GitHub pages as people have mentioned or a static website through Amazon S3/CloudFront). Personally, I use Ghost and Hipstadeploy:

http://ghost.org/ https://github.com/proudlygeek/hipstadeploy

And demo: http://www.oddevan.com/

Re: Ask HN: What are good blogging platforms for programmers?

#8

Post by a-priori » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 5:13 PM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #2

Using Jekyll (w/ a good theme) + GitHub Pages is more than sufficient. More importantly, it's free, fast, and can handle large amounts of traffic, such as the front page of Hacker News. A year ago, I used Wordpress on shared hosting, then my service was terminated once I hit the front page of HN (~300 concurrent users). I've been using Jekyll + GitHub Pages since, and I've had no issues whatsoever, aside from the occ…

A variation of this is to push your Jekyll site to S3 and put CloudFront in front of it. It'll cost you a small amount of money each month (my sorely neglected blog costs me about $0.02/month).

Re: Ask HN: What are good blogging platforms for programmers?

#9

Post by medwezys » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 5:14 PM UTC

http://svbtle.com is nice. You can use GitHub flavoured markdown. The code highlighting is not ideal, but other than that it's a very nice platform.

Re: Ask HN: What are good blogging platforms for programmers?

#10

Post by datamoshr » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 5:14 PM UTC

I am partial to Ghost (https://ghost.org/). It's a super easy platform to use. You can host it yourself or get paid hosting. Also it's open-source so you can contribute to it's development which is something that you can also learn on. Default theme supports code-snippets out-of-the-box too.