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

#21
I use a static-site generator. It can be fun to tinker around with (it's a personal blog, I don't need to develop to some deadline), the friction of "generate, upload" isn't that high, and it's easy to find free hosting for the static content.

I guess the "stack" part of that becomes how easy it is to add on bells and whistles which don't come out of the box. I'd chalk that up to "fun to tinker with".

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

#22
Including commenting system please. :-)

Is there any way comments could be shared across LinkedIn, HN, blog, et al, all visible at the blog itself?

And where to find good themes for static site generators. Am willing to pay. Theme for me is just as important as picking up the tech. stack.

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

#23

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...

Why the switch?

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

#27
I'm using WordPress, but they've recently changed their UI to be fairly terrible, necessitating another plugin to revert the writing interface.

While that's annoying, the platform supports anything I'd want to do functionally with the site, and it helps that most of my freelance development work is WordPress-related. Like arthev suggested, time spent jacking with the software is time not spent blogging (or something else productive).

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