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Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your personal blog these days?

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python based Static site generator Nikola hosted on digitalocean along with a few other sites.

The advantage over pelican:

1. python notebook (Jupyter) is a first class citizen

2. I can set custom urls for each post. same as the previous blog system from which I am migrating

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your personal blog these days?

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Chances are, nobody cares and nobody finds your site in the first place. Just keep a desktop zimwiki or a diary. I recommend using fountain pens, they are lovely tools to write with. People read successful people's blogs, not yours nor mine (had one 15 years ago, no one read that either). So stop wasting time on tweaking the front porch and work on the piping instead.

Why so pessimistic? Maybe when writing a blog you won't get more than a handful regular readers, but keeping it public stimulates you to talk about you, your job, and the solutions you got when encountered a problem (sure, you won't talk about how much you love your dog, I hope). I'd also say that a well kept blog may be more important than a CV since you can actually tell how good you are in your job. To answer the…

I guess it came through like that unintentionally. I had a bad time dealing with procrastination back then, where I was writing up snippets and thoughts on a blog instead of working on projects that really pushed me forward in life. Tweaking html and whatnot.

I feel that most people crave attention more than they crave growing in whatever they are writing about. Maybe it all boils down to how I felt back then. These days, I read much more and write very little. It fits me at the moment, and I am better for not craving others attention and approval.

Oh well, I'll stick to fountain pens for now. :)

Re: Ask HN: Where do you host your personal blog these days?

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I'm using Jekyll + Firebase Hosting on my blog[0]. Currently looking into switching to Hugo[1] as it doesn't require Ruby and claims to generate pages much faster. [0]: https://citrusui.me/blog [1]: https://gohugo.io

I can attest, Hugo is very fast. You might want to look into https://www.netlifycms.org/ (works with Hugo among others), and https://github.com/netlify/victor-hugo if you want to use Gulp/Webpack in your workflow.

you can also take a look at https://github.com/jbrodriguez/hugulp. It's a simple asset optimization tool specially designed for Hugo
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