Ask HN: What do you use for your personal blog? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What do you use for your personal blog?

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Post by alexander2002 » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 3:57 PM UTC

HI,I made alexy.tech(its a work in progress) using a guide I found online. It uses notion as cms and github pages as host.

Guide Link:https://nerdymomocat.github.io/posts/introducing-webtrotion/

Since I am too lazy,I ony managed to publish one blog https://alexy.tech/posts/the-future-of-the-internet-more-rob...

Re: Ask HN: What do you use for your personal blog?

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Post by skwee357 » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 4:21 PM UTC

For my 3 blogs (info in my profile), I use Astro with markdown on Netlify, but will move soon to my own VPS.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use for your personal blog?

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Post by leros » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 4:26 PM UTC

skwee357 wrote: post #22

For my 3 blogs (info in my profile), I use Astro with markdown on Netlify, but will move soon to my own VPS.

Why would you move from a static host to a VPS for a blog?

Re: Ask HN: What do you use for your personal blog?

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Post by pdyc » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 4:34 PM UTC

i use hugo for static site generation and i write blog in emacs org mode. Hosting is on cloudflare pages.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use for your personal blog?

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Post by iamflimflam1 » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 4:42 PM UTC

Still using Jekyll, keep meaning to switch to something else, but it works… www.atomic14.com

Re: Ask HN: What do you use for your personal blog?

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Post by vunderba » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 4:45 PM UTC

I swapped away from Wordpress to Pelican, a static site generator written in Python. The theme is a heavily customized version of Octapress - and its really performant with zero third-party dependencies / network requests.

Plus I like that I can literally click a button in Obsidian which formats a note, compresses/optimizes the media, and pushes it up to my website. Frictionless blog posting FTW.

https://github.com/getpelican/pelican

https://mordenstar.com

Though... recently I've been thinking about swapping over to Astro because the grass is always greener.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use for your personal blog?

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Post by mmarian » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 4:54 PM UTC

Astro SSG. Can easily add Tailwind and React, which I use in my day to day. Got a couple of sites ranked in top 3 for the keywords I'm targeting. Hosted on Cloudflare Pages, for free.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use for your personal blog?

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Post by boricj » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 4:58 PM UTC

abhgh wrote: post #10

I use Jekyll[1]. It's quite popular which implies that it's easy to search for answers online or find steps to some specific customization you might need. [1] https://blog.quipu-strands.com/jensens_inequality

Same, although I recommend not relying on GitHub pages for generating the site due to the age of the gems available on it. I've initially kept my blog compatible with it even though I'm serving it from my NAS, but I ended up ditching compatibility because of that in order to use more modern versions.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use for your personal blog?

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Post by rewind94 » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 4:58 PM UTC

Astro with Markdown with a static host. Quite simple and quick to get started.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use for your personal blog?

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Post by skwee357 » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 5:02 PM UTC

leros wrote: post #23

skwee357 wrote: post #22

For my 3 blogs (info in my profile), I use Astro with markdown on Netlify, but will move soon to my own VPS.

Why would you move from a static host to a VPS for a blog?

To clarify, it’s about the server.

It still static, but will be served from my hardware rather than a PaaS.