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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 davidee »

cpach wrote: post #94
steve_adams_86 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ghost has a solid self hosting story as well. Upgrading is easy, changing and updating themes isn’t hard, and you don’t need many resources to run it.

Out of curiosity, is there any specific hosting provider you would recommend for Ghost? For example, would DigitalOcean suffice?

Absolutely. I run Ghost on a *.small instance in AWS.

The one caveat with Ghost is that it only works with Mailgun for drop-in support of sending newsletters: https://ghost.org/docs/faq/mailgun-newsletters/

It was the one thing that gave me pause before taking the leap. At least they're being transparent about what and why even if I disagree with some of their reasoning. I have sent newsletters successfully via a self-hosted SMTP server to thousands of readers for years. I mean, I wouldn't recommend anyone doing that if they value their sanity, but I also think self-hosters should be free to experiment.

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

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Post by vcf »

j_bum wrote: post #8

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

I’ve been using Quarto for a few months now and it’s been great to be able to turn Jupyter notebooks into blog posts with not extra work.

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

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Post by BearGrass »

vladsiv wrote: post #23

I am using a simple Jekyll theme minimal-mistakes[0] which I customized to suit my needs. I'm hosting my blog[1] on GitHub Pages, the repo[2] is public so you can take a look and fork it if you find it interesting. The setup is really simple, straightforward, and no-cost. [0] - https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes [1] - https://www.vladsiv.com/ [2] - https://github.com/VladimirSiv/VladimirSiv.github.io

My lack of knowledge has led me to only have heard of WordPress, but it feels cumbersome to operate, so I've been writing some 'draft' blogs locally. Thank you for letting me know about this solution; I've already started my first blog.
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