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

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Post by godot » Mon, May 06, 2019, 4:48 PM UTC

mooreds wrote: post #39

WordPress. Not light in terms of runtime, but definitely in terms of dev time. (Aka simple to keep running.)

Is it light in terms of dev time nowadays? 10+ years ago I had a self-managed Wordpress instance and it was just getting hacked left and right and I had to constantly be applying the latest updates/patches to be safe. 5+ years ago I was in a startup with a self-hosted company blog using Wordpress, this time I remember updates being easier to apply (1 click from the admin UI) but the cheap server we ran it on constantly ran into resource issues.

I agree the initial setup is usually easy and fast, but a lot of maintenance overhead to keep running. It's been a long time and maybe things are better since then?

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

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Post by mooreds » Mon, May 06, 2019, 7:29 PM UTC

godot wrote: post #41

mooreds wrote: post #39

WordPress. Not light in terms of runtime, but definitely in terms of dev time. (Aka simple to keep running.)

Is it light in terms of dev time nowadays? 10+ years ago I had a self-managed Wordpress instance and it was just getting hacked left and right and I had to constantly be applying the latest updates/patches to be safe. 5+ years ago I was in a startup with a self-hosted company blog using Wordpress, this time I remember updates being easier to apply (1 click from the admin UI) but the cheap server we ran it on constant…

Auto updates are great and the core has few security issues. I don't run many plugins.

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

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Post by labarilem » Tue, May 07, 2019, 6:57 AM UTC

My blog: https://marcolabarile.me/

I'm using GitHub Pages, so Jekyll is the static site generator. As Jekyll theme, I've picked minimal-mistakes: https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes

Then I've customized templates to meet my needs. It was quite easy, considering I've never wrote a line of Ruby.

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

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Post by martin_a » Tue, May 07, 2019, 11:48 AM UTC

Have been using WordPress for 13 years but switched to Hugo last year.

The WP ecosystem is broken and Automattic rather cares about pushing out _another_ page builder than fixing the ecosystem and core aspects of WP. They will dig their own grave.

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

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Post by xiaoxiae » Tue, May 07, 2019, 11:52 AM UTC

Jekyll!

Incredibly lightweight and simple to build! Still a WIP though.

www.slama.dev/

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

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Post by shanehoban » Tue, May 07, 2019, 11:53 AM UTC

Using Grav CMS [0] from my SaaS side projects blog. Pretty much what you've described. Light, clean and simple, easy to manage back end (PHP). So far so good!

[0] https://getgrav.org/

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

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Post by veddox » Tue, May 07, 2019, 11:59 AM UTC

I use coleslaw, a Lisp static site generator (see my setup description here: https://terranostra.one/posts/Blogging-with-Lisp.html).

I like the minimalism: I write in a text editor on my own laptop, then push to my server with a single command.

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

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Post by MitchellCash » Tue, May 07, 2019, 12:23 PM UTC

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…

I have an identical setup to this, painless to deploy updates/blog posts and zero cost.

I was previously using Jekyll, but moved over to Gatsby a few months ago and have enjoyed the built-in features of Gatsby and it’s surrounding ecosystem so far.

I have also considered integrating a git based CMS like Netlify CMS, but because it’s so easy to make new blog posts with just a git commit and a push I haven’t taken the time to change the workflow.

Links:

https://mitchellcash.com/

https://github.com/MitchellCash/MitchellCash.com

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

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Post by na85 » Tue, May 07, 2019, 12:26 PM UTC

I do it old-school with markdown, compiled to php+twig templates.

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

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Post by corobo » Tue, May 07, 2019, 12:29 PM UTC

https://cohan.io

If you're not familiar with Markdown it's probably not the stack for you honestly. But it is my favourite blog stack I've had so far.

Hugo as the static site gen, GitLab as the repo host, Netlify as the web host. Editing wise I usually just use Sublime Text on my desktop or a combo of Working Copy (iOS git app) + Ulysses (Fancypants writing app) on my iPad.