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So we are back to running our own blogs again? What are the alternatives to Medium if you don’t want to self-host? Ghost?
Programming blogs are kind of meh to me in general, and will be until the code-display aspects finally get ironed out.
The solution is pretty clear to me but to my knowledge it doesn't exist and the economics of creating it are not that favorable. You need to have a free github/publisher side cache which mirrors the public github repository of the code example. The example should be rendered server side without a javascript library for syntax highlighting / formatting. This way the author, or more likely a reader because the author a…
http://about-glitch.glitch.me/about/features/
https://medium.com/glitch/what-is-glitch-90cd75e40277
Not sure if it is possible to hook it up to a CI or Git hook.
I have never understood tech blogs on Medium. Surely if you’re writing about a technical subject, especially programming, you have the skills to setup a quick Jekyll blog? It’s what I did, and I have no idea why I’d hand control of my user experience over to Medium, no idea whatsoever.
Agree that this ^ is non-ideal.
But was Medium ever the go-to platform for programming blogs?
They don't really have much feature-wise catering towards technical posts e.g., nice syntax highlighting or code embedding, runnable snippets, limited embedding support, minimal analytics offering.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Medium is a Ghetto. Who wants to be seen along with thinly sliced salami articles that almost have something to say, desperate content marketers who are writing articles like "Does your API Need a Content Marketing Strategy?" and who are amazed that they got 35 people to view their steaming Turd Emoji? Not me.
It definitely feels like the bloggers on Medium are considerably more self-indulgent and considerably less intelligent.
So we are back to running our own blogs again? What are the alternatives to Medium if you don’t want to self-host? Ghost?
So we are back to running our own blogs again? What are the alternatives to Medium if you don’t want to self-host? Ghost?
FWIW you can trivially self-host Ghost these days with an official one-click droplet on DigitalOcean. https://www.digitalocean.com/products/one-click-apps/ghost/ https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/one-clicks/ghost/
And then there's the lack of RSS feed, so I have to actually visit each individual blog to see if there are updates instead of having them dropped nicely in my inbox with the rest of my morning read.
Medium is a garbage place for readers and content producers: please stay away from it.