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Re: Ask HN: What stack is your personal blog built on?

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Post by jacobedawson »

rahimnathwani wrote: post #9

My 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…

That looks cool - I want to avoid reinventing the wheel as you say while kicking the tires on something other than WP!

Re: Ask HN: What stack is your personal blog built on?

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Post by jacobedawson »

heimegutAGS wrote: post #7

If 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.

I would actually love to be able to publish a blog from Evernote - so my notes and research are on one place while getting the benefit of a WYSIWYG editor.

* Just checked and apparently there's a WP integration with Evernote called 'CoSchedule' for publishing posts from notes.

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Post by rwieruch »

Hugo for my blog, but I am redoing everything with Gatsby.js now.

My course platform uses Next.js for server-side rendering + Firebase. When I launched it, I have written up a longer article about my choices: https://www.robinwieruch.de/how-to-build-your-own-course-pla...

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Post by commandlinefan »

probably_wrong wrote: post #2

Mine 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…

> I should have stuck to Wordpress.

Ha - I’m exactly the opposite. I put off starting up a blog for years because I didn’t have the patience to learn some blogging “platform” like WordPress. It wasn’t until I “rolled my own” and “invented my own wheel” that it was interesting enough for me to want to focus on it. On the other hand, it’s probably a little more expensive for me to host everything myself (I could blog on Medium for free after all), but it’s interesting to work through all the technical details of things like adding a comment section, adding a captcha to that comment section, standardizing the look and feel, etc.

Re: Ask HN: What stack is your personal blog built on?

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Post by qnsi »

mrstefan wrote: post #3

I 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.

Is your blog that dynamic that you have to use JS framework?
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