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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 nicbou »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #66
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.…

All about Berlin is beautiful. I felt nice to know about the simple but powerful setup. I was all after CloudFlare pages with all the options a few years back and I experienced downtimes. I don't remember a single downtime in the last year or so with GitHub Pages. Of course, I use CloudFlare on top to greet the visitors.

Cloudflare has been really solid for me back in the CMS days. Now it's a little overkill on top of a static site, but it does speed up page load times for distant visitors. I tried Github Pages for another project and it's brilliant too.

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

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Post by nicbou »

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.

If you do it for the love of the game, definitely. It's a fun little project.

I rolled my own because I wanted to use Jinja inside Markdown. This lets me include widgets in the content, and use Python-based constants in the text. For example, when the German minimum wage changes, I change one constant and it triggers a bunch of updates across the website.

I also wanted to control the content-to-website pipeline a little better. The SSG builds pages, but also generates text-to-speech audio for glossary terms, makes some typographic changes, and lints the Markdown for site-specific issues.

I wrote a bit about it here: https://nicolasbouliane.com/projects/ursus

The code is here: https://github.com/All-About-Berlin/ursus/

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

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Post by cpach »

aryonoco wrote: post #58

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 f…

usememos.com?

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

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Post by guenthert »

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.…

Just had a peek at allaboutberlin.com. Pretty, thankfully slim and what I've seen (just glanced over the housing section) solid advice. You deserve some price for that.

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

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Post by __rito__ »

aryonoco wrote: post #58

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 f…

Can you please share your Astro + Netlify blog's URL?

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

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Post by jftuga »

cpach wrote: post #18
sakesun wrote: post #9

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

Haven’t tried Astro myself, but AFAICT it’s compatible with AWS Amplify – which in my book is a huge plus. The Amplify hosting platform is very easy to get started with. I use it with Hugo, it’s super-convenient, IMO. https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/deploy/aws/

How much are you getting charged each month for Amplify?

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

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Post by AlienRobot »

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.

https://xkcd.com/1319/

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

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Post by thiht »

alexander2002 wrote: post #89
seriocomic wrote: post #88

Interestingly, Notion has just announced today the ability to publish from their tool: https://www.notion.so/help/public-pages-and-web-publishing

notion urls are so long

Who cares? Do judge stories posted on Hacker News (or elsewhere) by how pretty their URL is?
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