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I used hugo for a while, but found myself struggling against it more often than I liked. I have since moved on to using other options.
What other options?
Anyone looking for a static blog but that wants a decent interface for editing, check out forestry.io. once setup, it commits to GitHub for you, your user is none the wiser. If the service ever goes away, you still have your blog in GitHub. And you can deploy anywhere (s3, netlify, etc). I use this setup for my non technical wife.
There is no lack of technical choices when it comes to starting a blog. I can start five blogs in the next 30 minutes, each one on a different platform/infrastructure. What I do lack is something interesting to write about, in a consistent manner. I have been writing code for a long time. I did build some interesting stuff. I'm currently working on a startup that does use some blog-worthy tech: any attempt ends up wi…
There is no lack of technical choices when it comes to starting a blog. I can start five blogs in the next 30 minutes, each one on a different platform/infrastructure. What I do lack is something interesting to write about, in a consistent manner. I have been writing code for a long time. I did build some interesting stuff. I'm currently working on a startup that does use some blog-worthy tech: any attempt ends up wi…
Follow David Perell for writing inspiration. https://twitter.com/david_perell/status/1213894632943296516
There is no lack of technical choices when it comes to starting a blog. I can start five blogs in the next 30 minutes, each one on a different platform/infrastructure. What I do lack is something interesting to write about, in a consistent manner. I have been writing code for a long time. I did build some interesting stuff. I'm currently working on a startup that does use some blog-worthy tech: any attempt ends up wi…
I've been preparing articles for my future blog about my interests and struggles (security, beer, books, mental health). Weird mix but theres no doubt that its more interesting than me trying to force myself to write on one of them consistently
The author seems adamant that blog.domain.com is a worse setup than domain.com/blog - I've seen this argument go back and forth a lot, with both sides claiming advantages and disadvantages. I am interested to hear the consensus from HN users as to which is better, and why.
As he said, a sub domain is often considered a separate domain when it comes to SEO. His other arguments about naming seems rather hand-wavy, though. Security-wise, a subdomain can also be a different origin. Which is often positive, so a flaw in your blogging software doesn't allow someone to extract cookies or so from the main site.
This is why using a completely separate domain can be wise if you’re using a third party to host your blog. At Fastmail when we shifted our blog to Ghost(Pro), we moved the blog from blog.fastmail.com to fastmail.blog, so that they definitely can’t get any cookies we may happen to set on domain=fastmail.com (even though our login cookies are domain=www.fastmail.com and thus safe anyway; defence in depth, and all that; by contrast, our product Topicbox does store its cookies on domain=topicbox.com, so the protection of using topicbox.blog is real there).
When comes to static site, I found that MkDocs[1] is easier to use. I like when I use it with Material theme[2]. [1]: https://www.mkdocs.org/ [2]: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/
For a blog though, it would be a terrible format. They meet very different use cases.
> Don’t try to be clever by using a localized domain, don’t use .io. .com just gives a better impression... https://gohugo.io - Hugo website > My suggestion is to avoid subdomains completely. https://themes.gohugo.io - Hugo themes https://discourse.gohugo.io - Hugo forum Hmm
It’s a shame there we are so whipped to .com
> Don’t try to be clever by using a localized domain, don’t use .io. .com just gives a better impression... https://gohugo.io - Hugo website > My suggestion is to avoid subdomains completely. https://themes.gohugo.io - Hugo themes https://discourse.gohugo.io - Hugo forum Hmm
>Note on subdomains: every subdomain, to Google, is a different website. So if your domain is flaviocopes.com, and you create your blog in blog.flaviocopes.com, then that’s a completely new website to Google, and it will have its own ranking separate from the main domain.
So from a SEO perspective it might make sense, if you're running a small blog and traffic is one of your main goals.
There is no lack of technical choices when it comes to starting a blog. I can start five blogs in the next 30 minutes, each one on a different platform/infrastructure. What I do lack is something interesting to write about, in a consistent manner. I have been writing code for a long time. I did build some interesting stuff. I'm currently working on a startup that does use some blog-worthy tech: any attempt ends up wi…