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Re: Ask HN: How should I create my personal academic blog?

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Post by ian0 » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 1:49 AM UTC

shivammishra wrote: post #10

Try Ghost, I use it for my blog, has a markdown editor, a beautiful no BS admin UI, seo friendly out of the box

I second this. Ive used both the cloud version and self hosted it. The default design is lovely, its lightning quick too.

For the self hosted version I use heroku (7$ / month) and this[1] library, remember to hook it up to an AWS bucket though else you'll loose your pics each time the server restarts.

[1] https://github.com/cobyism/ghost-on-heroku

Re: Ask HN: How should I create my personal academic blog?

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Post by qwerty456127 » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 4:33 PM UTC

I really recommend GitHub pages but you actually have to fork a theme and modify it to suit your needs (it's fun and possibilities are infinite). You don't have to push everything to GitHub wile you debug your theme and prepare your post, just run Jekyll and see everything on the localhost and only update it on GitHub when it seems finished.

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