I do an SSG, for me, the hardest part was finding an SSG I liked. I ended up settling on a small one that rarely gets talked about, blogc. It isn't perfect, but I like it.
How to Start Your Blog in 2023
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#921. What you use or wherever you host, make sure that you can export your content in either plain text or a universal format that can be used by another tool or host it yourself. In short, own the content and use whatever tool it fits your current situations and limitations. 2. Possibly, try to get a domain of your own, and preferably a `.com`. Point that to whichever server you use (if they don't allow you to point,…
For a simple blog, micro.blog hits all of those points. It’s very non scammy.
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#93If you like Cloudflare and want to host a few GB media files (e.g., audio, video...) for free, then you can try microfeed: https://github.com/microfeed/microfeed
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#94I honestly think starting a blog in 2023 is exactly as easy as it was 2004 (the year he references), if you take the easiest route: 1. You pick a cheap shared hoster 2. You buy a domain and connect it 3. You download a PHP blog system, like Wordpress 4. You unpack the files into the webroot, configure the database (or use a blog system that supports sqlite, like Serendipity [which I develop for]) 5. Pick a theme, ins…
The process you described is so much more complicated than signing up for Twitter or Medium though.
And then you have to deal with the current Twitter shit show. I want to own my own content.
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#95For 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 `` 3. Build and push to main, and then the image is available in minutes at ` /posts/post-title/image-name.png" rel="nofollow">https://…
Well, true, but: 1. You might want to resize image if it's a photo 2. You might prefer a CMS to a plain code editor and then you need to use its uploader (both Forestry and NetlifyCMS aren't very seamless) 3. Try doing that on mobile And don't get me wrong, I use Hugo as well.
Netlify CMS is dead[1] after the core dev left the company, Forestry is also officially dead as of April this year. Netlify CMS got forked into StaticCMS and the team behind Forestry have created TinaCMS. After experimenting with both last week, I recommend the latter if you're building a blog with Astro and want a Git based CMS.
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#96How to actually start your blog: Open up Notes and start writing.
Worry about deployment later. The content is a bigger barrier.
Re: How to Start Your Blog in 2023
#971. What you use or wherever you host, make sure that you can export your content in either plain text or a universal format that can be used by another tool or host it yourself. In short, own the content and use whatever tool it fits your current situations and limitations. 2. Possibly, try to get a domain of your own, and preferably a `.com`. Point that to whichever server you use (if they don't allow you to point,…
For a simple blog, micro.blog hits all of those points. It’s very non scammy.
I wanted to love it but I agree with Kev Quirk's take:
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#98How to actually start your blog: Open up Notes and start writing. Worry about deployment later. The content is a bigger barrier.
If you use https://montaigne.io you don't even have to leave notes.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
For a simple blog, micro.blog hits all of those points. It’s very non scammy.
I wanted to love it but I agree with Kev Quirk's take: https://kevquirk.com/micro-blog-is-still-confusing/
The one thing that drew me to micro blog was that it was a paid service.
But honestly, my blog there is not about “engagement”. I don’t really care if anyone reads it. It’s more of a personal journal to blog about the multi year, “hybrid digital nomad” life we started last year.
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#100Want to start a blog? Good news, you already have one.
Yes sir, with my new service you can just type in your Hackernews username and have a fully formed blog launched based off your comments to various posts, all properly dated and archived.
And that’s not all, using the latest and greatest in AI tech, you can have automatically generated hash tags used for categorizing posts.
Why waste time writing a blog from scratch? Have my service build you a full blog today!