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Re: Ask HN: What are good blogging platforms for programmers?

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Post by srom »

minimaxir wrote: post #2

Using Jekyll (w/ a good theme) + GitHub Pages is more than sufficient. More importantly, it's free, fast, and can handle large amounts of traffic, such as the front page of Hacker News. A year ago, I used Wordpress on shared hosting, then my service was terminated once I hit the front page of HN (~300 concurrent users). I've been using Jekyll + GitHub Pages since, and I've had no issues whatsoever, aside from the occ…

As an alternative, you could consider Hugo (http://hugo.spf13.com/overview/introduction), which gives more flexibility regarding the organisation of files and urls.

Re: Ask HN: What are good blogging platforms for programmers?

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Post by pron »

minimaxir wrote: post #2

Using Jekyll (w/ a good theme) + GitHub Pages is more than sufficient. More importantly, it's free, fast, and can handle large amounts of traffic, such as the front page of Hacker News. A year ago, I used Wordpress on shared hosting, then my service was terminated once I hit the front page of HN (~300 concurrent users). I've been using Jekyll + GitHub Pages since, and I've had no issues whatsoever, aside from the occ…

And you can use prose.io (or even GitHub's own editor) to edit posts on the go.

Re: Ask HN: What are good blogging platforms for programmers?

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Post by gjreda »

hamstu wrote: post #21
a-priori wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A variation of this is to push your Jekyll site to S3 and put CloudFront in front of it. It'll cost you a small amount of money each month (my sorely neglected blog costs me about $0.02/month).

Wow, that's crazy cheap. What would a day on HN do I wonder?

I spent a Sunday at the top of Hacker News about a year ago and I don't recall ever paying more than $5 a month for my S3 hosting.

For context, last month I had ~20,000 pageviews and my S3 + Data Transfer charges were $2.43.

Re: Ask HN: What are good blogging platforms for programmers?

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Post by Jhsto »

a-priori wrote: post #8
minimaxir wrote: post #2

Using Jekyll (w/ a good theme) + GitHub Pages is more than sufficient. More importantly, it's free, fast, and can handle large amounts of traffic, such as the front page of Hacker News. A year ago, I used Wordpress on shared hosting, then my service was terminated once I hit the front page of HN (~300 concurrent users). I've been using Jekyll + GitHub Pages since, and I've had no issues whatsoever, aside from the occ…

A variation of this is to push your Jekyll site to S3 and put CloudFront in front of it. It'll cost you a small amount of money each month (my sorely neglected blog costs me about $0.02/month).

http://blogging.alastair.is/how-i-served-100k-users-without-...

Re: Ask HN: What are good blogging platforms for programmers?

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Post by kd0amg »

swah wrote: post #16

TIL we are all now mature and educated in the perils of the Not Invented Here syndrome so nobody will be telling you to go write your own . (and this makes me sad)

Some people probably don't find blogging platforms all that interesting and would really rather just say what they have to say and get back to whatever else they were working on. If someone asked me what's a good kitchen knife, I wouldn't say, "make your own" (even if that's what I would rather do).

Re: Ask HN: What are good blogging platforms for programmers?

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Post by [deleted] »

kd0amg wrote: post #35
swah wrote: post #16

TIL we are all now mature and educated in the perils of the Not Invented Here syndrome so nobody will be telling you to go write your own . (and this makes me sad)

Some people probably don't find blogging platforms all that interesting and would really rather just say what they have to say and get back to whatever else they were working on. If someone asked me what's a good kitchen knife, I wouldn't say, "make your own" (even if that's what I would rather do).

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Re: Ask HN: What are good blogging platforms for programmers?

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Post by omgitstom »

austinl wrote: post #30

Here's a list of resources, mentioned in this thread and elsewhere. Some of these are better at sharing code snippets than others, but you might find the features of the platform more enjoyable. - Jekyll + GitHub Pages ( https://help.github.com/articles/using-jekyll-with-pages ) - Octopress/Jekyll + GitHub Pages ( http://octopress.org/ ) - Svbtle ( https://svbtle.com/ ) - Medium ( https://medium.com/ ) - Ghost ( http…

+ 1 for svbtle, it is a nice minimalistic design that really concentrates on the content.

Octopress / Jekyll are sort of annoying at times specifically if you don't use ruby. For example, on my mac, i've had to deal with weird ruby related issues when upgrading OS X.

Re: Ask HN: What are good blogging platforms for programmers?

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Post by NaNaN »

jordanlev wrote: post #24

If you wind up going with a static site generator (like Jekyll, for example), one thing to watch out for which I experienced on my own technical blog is that if you want comments functionality then your only realistic choice is Disqus... and Disqus is absolutely horrible for comments on technical blogs because it does not allow code snippets! It used to (a few years ago), and then they changed it... now I have to cre…

You can still do that, but it is a little complicated.

https://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/665057-synt...

Re: Ask HN: What are good blogging platforms for programmers?

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Post by arikrak »

You can install Wordpress for free and easily on OpenShift. Setup some simple caching (or even just cloudflare) and it will be able to handle basically any amount of traffic. Install a plugin to display code nicely, or embed the code from elsewhere.

(for more tips, see my kickstarter project: http://kck.st/1sYmezD )

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