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

#62

Back in college, I started using what I knew for what I wanted to do. I ended up with a blog using Java EE and Postgres. Total overkill (it's FAST!), but it's been fun over the years to toy with not just blog things (like implementing Markdown, full text search, and backup/restore), but HTTP things (like SRI and CSP).

Is the code for that project on GitHub / would you be willing to share the source? I'd be interested in seeing that take on a blog implementation.

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

#63
post #56

Running my girlfriend's recipe blog on Python + Django + Wagtail CMS on a Heroku server, wired up to Google cloud storage. It ends up being completely free with the dev tier Heroku server and staying within the free tier of Google's cloud storage. It was mostly as a learning exercise, but it's a pretty flexible stack, and I'm a fan of the Wagtail admin panel; didn't really feel the need to customize anything there.

How does it work with Heroku dynos waking up after inactivity? Whats the loading time?

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

#66

Back in college, I started using what I knew for what I wanted to do. I ended up with a blog using Java EE and Postgres. Total overkill (it's FAST!), but it's been fun over the years to toy with not just blog things (like implementing Markdown, full text search, and backup/restore), but HTTP things (like SRI and CSP).

Is the code for that project on GitHub / would you be willing to share the source? I'd be interested in seeing that take on a blog implementation.

Yes: https://github.com/theandrewbailey/toilet

I haven't updated it in a while (I haven't integrated git into my small, informal process).

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

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post #40

Mainly as a learning exercise, I wrote my blog from scratch. The back-end is written in Go, mainly communicates with S3 for storage of photo assets and blog posts and serves static pages using HTML templates. I have a front-end written in React for admin views, including blog post editing and photo uploading.

I would be interested in seeing some of this project code, and the blog format.

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

#70
I wanted something that i) is simple to host and edit, ii) did not require me maintaining a server somewhere, and iii) it was easy to go from Jupyter notebooks to a post.

So I opted for Pelican (https://blog.getpelican.com/) which has a plugin for converting Jupyter/IPython notebooks into blog posts. It is hosted in S3. If you are curious, here it is: http://ramondario.com/

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