I'm curious to know what your current favourite blog stack is - I'm looking for a light stack, clean & simple writing process and easy-to-manage back-end.
Ask HN: What stack is your personal blog built on?
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#2Mine was written using Bash and Unix utils, because I wanted to see if I could. I then migrated most of it to Perl once it became too complicated to keep track of which variable was supposed to be escaped how.
What I learned from my experience: I should have stuck to Wordpress. SSH'ing into my server, loading the environment variables, and running the generation script was often friction enough for me to file a post under "finish later", from where it never came back. For all its faults, Wordpress made it super easy for me to share an idea right there and then. Technology was not my problem - friction and writer block were.
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#3I created my blog few years ago and it is written in Spring on backend and AngularJS on frontend. Relational DB is MySQL.
If I created it again, all I would change is newer version of Angular.
Also I used Docker for containerizing and Jenkins for Continous Integration but it was only in order to practice DevOps skills.
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#4Jekyll + Bootstrap
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#5I went with Wordpress after a blogging guide suggested to minimize time spent messing with the blogging software, because messing with blogging software isn't blogging.
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#6Static HTML. The last thing I need is to worry about keeping blog software up to date so it doesn’t get hacked.
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#7If you don't use Wordpress, what do you use to write posts on your blogs? Are there any other good solutions for typing up a post with formatting and multimedia? And do you this in an admin page or something else? Been thinking about creating a blog from more or less scratch, so I'm really curious to see how other people are doing it.
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#8Flask (python). Just that, runs on it's development server and just use Bootstrap for front-end.
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#9My personal blog: https://www.encona.com/
Built using:
- gatsby (static site generator)
- netlify CMS (git-based headless CMS)
- GitHub (git remote for netlify)
It was dead easy to set this up, as someone had already done the work: https://github.com/alxshelepenok/gatsby-starter-lumen
I tried to set up something similar from scratch myself, using Strapi as the CMS, but I found myself re-inventing too many wheels (e.g. how to allow a blog post to include an arbitrary number of inline images).
So when I found this great starter project, I went with it. There's zero maintenance for hosting the site or CMS. But I can still customise whatever I like, and deploy with a simple git push.
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#10My blog is part of my business website, which runs on WordPress (hosted, not WordPress.com).
It's my favourite stack because hosting and running a website / blog is neither my core business nor my core expertise.
Last time I checked, WordPress was still easier to use and to maintain than static site generators. The plugin ecosystem is huge and provides ready-to-use solutions for common (and not so common) use cases that I therefore don't have to implement myself.