Ask HN: What are good blogging platforms for programmers? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by yummyfajitas » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 5:15 PM UTC

I use Pelican (roughly the Python version of Jekyll, a successor to Hyde). I just write markdown in emacs, publish and it's good to go. Everything is stored in git.

See the pelican folder here for code examples - feel free to steal the theme, just write your own content.

https://github.com/stucchio/Homepage

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

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Post by s992 » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 5:20 PM UTC

I use Octopress on GH pages. Switched from a full blown CMS and haven't looked back - it works great for me.

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

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Post by eddie_31003 » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 5:24 PM UTC

+1 for Github Pages and Jekyll. I used a Bootstrap theme that I tweaked a bit.

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

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Post by fredgrott » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 5:27 PM UTC

JelteF wrote: post #5

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/

you can also host ghost statically on github pages

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

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Post by rubiquity » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 5:31 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…

I use this same exact setup and for the same exact reasons. Jekyll + GitHub pages is a godsend.

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

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Post by swah » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 5:31 PM UTC

TIL we are all now mature and educated in the perils of the Not Invented Here syndrome so nobody will be telling you to go write your own.

(and this makes me sad)

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

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Post by rubiquity » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 5:31 PM UTC

oddevan wrote: post #7

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/

Doesn't Ghost use a database though? It was using SQLite last time I looked at it.

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

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Post by oddevan » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 5:36 PM UTC

rubiquity wrote: post #17

oddevan wrote: post #7

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/

Doesn't Ghost use a database though? It was using SQLite last time I looked at it.

It does. I run it on my local machine and use Hipstadeploy to render it to static HTML and send it to Amazon S3.

(I'm the kind of weird person that actually likes using a database and fancy backend to write/organize my posts, so I didn't want to use Jekyll.)

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

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Post by krat0sprakhar » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 5:37 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…

Cant +1 this enough. Jekyll is damn easy to get started with and host on github. To start off, you can simply clone any of the existing blogs[0] or create a new one and get started. I also have a few rake and grunt tasks written to help you manage asset packaging (all of this totally optional, btw).

[0] - https://github.com/prakhar1989/prakhar1989.github.com, http://getpoole.com/

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

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Post by billmalarky » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 5:38 PM UTC

Is everyone shying away from wordpress for security reasons? I like the simplicity of wordpress, but in the back of my mind I am concerned that one day I'll visit my site and it will have viagra ads all over it. It would be less of a concern if I blogged daily, but I go to it rarely enough that it could be hosting malware (and making me look like an idiot) for quite a while before I realized it.