Ask HN: What's your blog / portfolio stack?
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#32Personal blog: Markdown files edited with Obsidian, site built with Jekyll, hosted on Netlify
Family blog: Markdown files edited with Obsidian, site built with Quartz, hosted on Cloudflare
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#33Handwritten HTML served from a RPi and cached with CloudFlare.
I wrote a custom web-based editor that lets me conveniently edit all the files from any device including mobile.
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#34I use Hugo with GitLab CI that deploys to an S3 bucket.
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#35.Net Core MVC with Bootstrap CSS and a markdown file for each blog post.
Github CI/CD publishes my main branch to Azure AppService.
Blog: https://clintmcmahon.com
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#36I gave up on a "blog" or portfolio after not finding it useful and didn't like the idea of handing over free data to companies to train their next pyramid scheme.
When I did blog, it went through different tech eras. My biggest tech era was simply using Go and compiling the entire blog to a static binary and deploying with rsync/systemd.
I then moved from Go to Rust doing the same thing (static binary, all assets/html/etc baked in).
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#37Currently:
Ghost self-hosted in a container setup using a Hetzner VPS.
Planned:
Astro website with Ghost as a headless CMS, possibly using Obsidian or Outline wiki to draft posts and push to Ghost using an automation workflow like n8n.
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#39Handwritten, vanilla HTML with a self-self built static site generator (reading the HTML files and doing some fancy 'find and replace'). Get's the job done:
https://willem.com/blog/2025-03-05_durable-smartphone/
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#40Handwritten HTML served from a RPi and cached with CloudFlare. I wrote a custom web-based editor that lets me conveniently edit all the files from any device including mobile.
Ding! This exactly. Not every web page is best expressed in Markdown (or text for that matter). I post galleries of photos, weird web experiments, tutorials with inline photos, and other odd stuff that never fits in this 'automate my .md files to www' workflows everyone seems to love.
Write the html once, and it's good forever, really. Everything can be permalinked with authority. No reason to 're-render' your site again and again because you want to change the user interface - both of those are handled by CSS and JS.
You need to edit? Load up your FTP editor and work on the html file live, like a leet hacker! ...but I do succumb to using S3 due to its low monthly cost for hosting my 13gb 'personal' website. Too many hosted audio files...