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How to Start Your Blog in 2023

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Re: How to Start Your Blog in 2023

#41

I just publish via blogger. In the past I have checked other options but I always spend more time looking for interesting ways to deploy content than writing content

I'm giving Wordpress.com an other try for a website/blog relaunch. But, for just a blog, Blogger has been fine for me for years.

Re: How to Start Your Blog in 2023

#42
One thing I value the most is the combination of markdown and latex support, plus mermaid diagrams. It’s very hard to find something that works super well on everything. Right now a customized Hugo with KaTeX is the best solution, but I’m still sad I cannot use MathJAX :((

Re: How to Start Your Blog in 2023

#43
I've tried so many of these solutions. These days I am using Notion and generating static site using loconotion.

For me, writing outside Notion has become impossible. Notion AI does a fantastic job fixing my grammar and style. My English has always been less than passable and Notion AI does make it much better. I hope they dont make it very costly when they take it out of alpha.

Re: How to Start Your Blog in 2023

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A lot of expected pessimistic HN comments that seem to miss the point here. I think SSG's are pretty damn good, I use Astro. People seem to think that SSG's forces you to use markdown or something, they don't. It's literally a mechanism where content from somewhere is turned into static pages. You can even use Wordpress and it's API as the source of the content for a SSG. In my case I use MDX, which is Markdown that…

Is there a way for SSGs to support viewer comments?

Re: How to Start Your Blog in 2023

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post #16

For the combination of Hugo and GitHub Pages, images are pretty effortless as well. For example, for a post with a path of `content/posts/post-title.md`: 1. Add the image at `content/posts/post-title/image-name.png` 2. Add markdown that references it, like `![alt-text](image-name.png)` 3. Build and push to main, and then the image is available in minutes at ` /posts/post-title/image-name.png" rel="nofollow">https://…

Is Hugo significantly different from Jekyll?

Re: How to Start Your Blog in 2023

#47

I want to start my own blog but the vast number of choices overwhelms me. Deciding between Astro/Hugo/Jekyll right now. Can anyone share their experiences if they have built their blogs using these tools?

I've been using Jekyll for a nuclear education site for many years, after doing it for even more in just manual text-edited HTML. It's great, and I'm impressed with all the little things I can do with it, such as highlighting the current page in the menu and having little back/forth buttons from page to page. No complaints.

I also use self-hosted WordPress for a hobby blog and like the graphical editor and easy drag drop of images.

Re: How to Start Your Blog in 2023

#49

I want to start my own blog but the vast number of choices overwhelms me. Deciding between Astro/Hugo/Jekyll right now. Can anyone share their experiences if they have built their blogs using these tools?

Honestly, the overwhelming number of tool choices and themes is the biggest hurdle these days.

I will shamelessly plug my solution: md2blog. You just plop Markdown files into folders and it does the rest, without letting you get distracted by themes.

Edit: addressing the article, md2blog does not support email subscriptions, but it does generate an Atom feed. It also requires using a command line (but the tool is a single binary, so no installation or dependencies to deal with).

Link: https://jaredkrinke.github.io/md2blog/

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