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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?

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Post by igor47 »

I like using my blog to experiment with technology. I used to use GitHub pages and wrote some tips about using it with custom domains: https://igor.moomers.org/posts/github-pages-proxying-and-red...

But then I wanted to play with nextjs + typescript, have total control over how everything works, and host it myself in a container so I wrote a little static generator with next: https://github.com/igor47/blog

I think there are many ways to generate a site from images and markdown and the "best" depends on what you're trying to achieve

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

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Post by wannabebarista »

Jekyll is easy to use and you can write posts using markdown. There are several themes available out there, but it's also easy to work with the back end to customize. I've used Jekyll with Gitub pages for several years with no issues [0]. Plus, hosting is free on Github!

[0] https://bcmullins.github.io

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

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Post by nicbou »

I run allaboutberlin.com for a living. I switched from Craft CMS to a homebrew static site generator (Markdown + Jekyll) and it was a game changer.

Static sites are almost maintenance-free. They cost pennies to host. You work on your content using the tools that you love, if necessary offline. There are many excellent markdown editors and no CMS comes close. Everything is under source control and deploys with a push.

If you're used to text files and command line utilities, static site generators are a no-brainer. You probably shouldn't roll your own though.

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

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Post by inglor_cz »

I am just happy with self-hosted Wordpress. Lots of interesting plugins, once you get the hang of it, you can write your own plugins (as I did). Can take moderate load (say, 30 visitors a minute) just fine.

1000 a minute would be bad, but that's not a typical load for a blog, unless something you wrote goes completely viral. Happened precisely once to me in 8 years of writing.

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

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Post by pjot »

nicbou wrote: post #53

I run allaboutberlin.com for a living. I switched from Craft CMS to a homebrew static site generator (Markdown + Jekyll) and it was a game changer. Static sites are almost maintenance-free. They cost pennies to host. You work on your content using the tools that you love, if necessary offline. There are many excellent markdown editors and no CMS comes close. Everything is under source control and deploys with a push.…

Why not roll your own? Sure, you have to build it and maintain it, but isn’t that in the spirit of programming? It’s fun.

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

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Post by carimura »

pjot wrote: post #56
nicbou wrote: post #53

I run allaboutberlin.com for a living. I switched from Craft CMS to a homebrew static site generator (Markdown + Jekyll) and it was a game changer. Static sites are almost maintenance-free. They cost pennies to host. You work on your content using the tools that you love, if necessary offline. There are many excellent markdown editors and no CMS comes close. Everything is under source control and deploys with a push.…

Why not roll your own? Sure, you have to build it and maintain it, but isn’t that in the spirit of programming? It’s fun.

Let's rewrite the OS while we're at it since that's in the spirit of programming! :) Just use the nice tools available unless your goal is to rebuild the stack.

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

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Post by aryonoco »

Some alternative solutions that I haven't seen mentioned here are: Write.as (or it's open source code WriteFreely if one wants to self host) and Memos (which can be self hosted, or you can use a platform such as pikapods to host it for you

Personally I settled on Astro + Netlify for my technical blog. I can write in Markdown, push to GitHub, and it automatically gets compiled and hosted by Netlify for free.

However for non programmers friends and family, I've setup a few blogs with Memos and they all love it.

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

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

cpach wrote: post #6

If you don’t want to self-host then Ghost or wordpress.com might be worth checking out.

Ghost has a solid self hosting story as well. Upgrading is easy, changing and updating themes isn’t hard, and you don’t need many resources to run it.
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