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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?

#31

Not sure which one’s the ideal tool but I’m slowly collecting them all here: https://manuelmoreale.com/blog-platforms

I don't want to cramp your style, but displaying those in a table would really improve readability

I know but I don’t want to mess with the site css since that’s literally the only table I have used in 7 years ahah

I do want to make a better page for that list though so I appreciate you nudging me.

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

#32
post #24

Great now I have analysis paralysis with all these options.

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

Stylistic note, you can use `random.choice()`. If you aren't generating an encryption key, you probably don't need `SystemRandom`.

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

#33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't want to cramp your style, but displaying those in a table would really improve readability

I know but I don’t want to mess with the site css since that’s literally the only table I have used in 7 years ahah I do want to make a better page for that list though so I appreciate you nudging me.

two options: link to an external google sheet as well, or add the table as an image

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

#34
post #19

Write in markdown, transfer it with rsync to a server running hugo or jekyll?

If you don’t want to maintain the infrastructure, you can also just commit to git and push to GitHub, and there have CI build the Hugo/Jekyll website and host it using GitHub pages. You can easily have your own domain connected to it and GitHub will provide an SSL certificate.

If you don't want to maintain infrastructure, don't adopt the kinds of software stacks created by the kinds of people who have only ever shown a giddiness for producing devops shovelware that assumes/requires maintenance.

Even ignoring that, you run into stuff like this:

> the first wall I hit [trying to update the website] was that I: Forgot [...] the esoteric Hugo conventions (has documentation, but it's not easy to parse at a glance) [...] not sure how I could have remembered all of the Hugo-isms, especially since I don't update this site very often and don't do static site generator work outside of this.

Nothing about this sort of thing is unforeseeable. Don't choose these options.

http://web.archive.org/web/20210331182731/https://corytheboy...>

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

#39
post #9

I'd suggest Astro ( https://astro.build/ )

1+ Astro.

I actually built a low-code blog template using Astro for my partner and friends [1].

I set it up so you can publish a github pages site from your browser (using a dev container), or you can just drop in markdown files into vscode. It's not quite no-code, but I think if I could add a simple UI it in theory could be.

[1] https://github.com/easy-astro-blog-creator/easy-astro-blog-c...

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