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

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

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Post by nicbou »

guenthert wrote: post #84
nicbou wrote: post #53

I run allaboutberlin.com for a living. I switched from Craft CMS to a homebrew static site generator (Markdown + Jekyll) and it was a game changer. Static sites are almost maintenance-free. They cost pennies to host. You work on your content using the tools that you love, if necessary offline. There are many excellent markdown editors and no CMS comes close. Everything is under source control and deploys with a push.…

Just had a peek at allaboutberlin.com. Pretty, thankfully slim and what I've seen (just glanced over the housing section) solid advice. You deserve some price for that.

Thank you! It took years of snall edits with help from a lot of knowledgeable people. The effort especially shows in Ausländerbehörde and Bürgeramt guides. The official website is pretty bad.

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

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Post by meiraleal »

jononor wrote: post #79
pjot wrote: post #56

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Why not roll your own? Sure, you have to build it and maintain it, but isn’t that in the spirit of programming? It’s fun.

Assuming that the purpose of the blog is to write/publish, then all of that is distraction from actually writing.

Blogging about creating a custom static site generator for the blog is the most common first (and last) post.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

tnvmadhav wrote: post #98

Use a Static Site Generator like [Hugo]( https://gohugo.io ) and use GitHub pages or even Netlify which allows for CI/CD + Custom Domain with HTTPS/SSL certificates. I've been using Hugo + Netlify combination for more than 4 years now and It's a breeze. If you want to go with a full no-code solution, I'd recommend [feather.so]( https://feather.so/ ) (I haven't used personally but heard good things about it in the pas…

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

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Post by alexander2002 »

thiht wrote: post #90
alexander2002 wrote: post #89

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notion urls are so long

Who cares? Do judge stories posted on Hacker News (or elsewhere) by how pretty their URL is?

I meant it is too ugly to share the urls.I do know there are some ways to change that but its not by default

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

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Post by cpach »

tnvmadhav wrote: post #99
cpach wrote: post #24

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import random platform = random.SystemRandom().choice(["Astro", "Blogger", "Hugo", "WordPress", "Ghost"]) print(platform)

zsh: command not found: import /s

Try this one:

  echo -e "Astro\nBlogger\nHugo\nWordPress\nGhost" | shuf | head -n 1

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

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Post by scary-size »

alok-g wrote: post #100
scary-size wrote: post #72

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I run a Wordpress instance on my home server. An extract job regularly exports a static version of the site. I host it on a DO droplet with a bunch of other static websites.

What's a good way to extract a static version? I currently use a plug-in that claims to create static pages, but the management is still on Wordpress. Is that good enough? Would the static pages extracted support commenting? Thanks.

I‘m using WP2Static, a Wordpress plugin. But you can script up something yourself with wget/curl, too.

Comments won’t work. You need a backend and database for that.

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

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Post by alok-g »

scary-size wrote: post #108
alok-g wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's a good way to extract a static version? I currently use a plug-in that claims to create static pages, but the management is still on Wordpress. Is that good enough? Would the static pages extracted support commenting? Thanks.

I‘m using WP2Static, a Wordpress plugin. But you can script up something yourself with wget/curl, too. Comments won’t work. You need a backend and database for that.

WP2Static seems nice. Thanks!

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

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Post by pcranaway »

nicbou wrote: post #53

I run allaboutberlin.com for a living. I switched from Craft CMS to a homebrew static site generator (Markdown + Jekyll) and it was a game changer. Static sites are almost maintenance-free. They cost pennies to host. You work on your content using the tools that you love, if necessary offline. There are many excellent markdown editors and no CMS comes close. Everything is under source control and deploys with a push.…

thank you for making this site! i'm planning on moving to germany after i'm done with my studies and this will be pretty helpful do you have any other resources helpful for expats? (perhaps something more like adjusting to the social life, meeting people, etc) would sure be helpful to put it there
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