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How to Start Your Blog in 2023

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Re: How to Start Your Blog in 2023

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Post by murphyslab »

Kye wrote: post #197
murphyslab wrote: post #182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

CIRA's privacy policy is one of the reasons why I've stayed with .ca for my digital presence: > The registrant name and administrative and technical contact information of non-individual registrants, such as corporations, is displayed by default. The registrant name and administrative and technical contact information of individuals, such as Canadian citizens or permanent residents is not displayed in WHOIS per the C…

Isn't free WHOIS privacy standard these days?

"Free domain privacy, forever", in GoDaddy's wording, seems fairly standard now. But really it's a spin: Since 2018, domain privacy is required by EU's GDPR in many instances. But pre-GDPR it was frequently an add-on, demanding additional payment. IIRC, there are some domains for which it is not available.

CA domains have had a privacy default for individuals since 2008. As someone who's received personal threats as a result of WHOIS info, I'd rather stick with the more certain option.

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Post by schemescape »

lapcat wrote: post #187
boredemployee wrote: post #151

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Could you explain how do you do it? I really want to have a blog but I don't want to fuck with wordpress and all that I know is a little bit of html, python and sql.

Wow, I didn't expect so much interest in my comment! I should start by saying that I'm not averse to a little "manual labor". I know a lot of people feel compelled to automate everything, and if you're like that, then you wouldn't like my methods at all. ;-) My entire blog is in a git repository. I use BBEdit for text editing. https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/ It has a full set of HTML tools and templates. W…

> It seems that worrying about the blogging system stops a lot of people from blogging in the first place.

I couldn’t agree more, and I’ve been a victim of it myself. This is why I like zero-config setups now. Choosing themes is the most attractive nuisance ever…

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Post by inasmuch »

idlewords wrote: post #159
lapcat wrote: post #106

I am the "weird dude who writes raw HTML" LOL. I had a self-hosted WordPress blog from 2006-2010, but security updates become a burden, especially since I had to modify the WP source code a little to do exactly what I wanted with the RSS feeds. After a few years of not blogging at all, I decided to use the simplest possible "system", which is writing blog posts in raw HTML in a text editor, as well as writing the RSS…

Fellow raw HTML writer chiming in. My hand-built little web app for blogging broke maybe five years ago with some OS X update, and I have been too lazy to fix it.

Also a raw HTML writer, but I’ve been considering the SSG route to make site updates (global nav changes, redesigns, etc.) manageable. You seem to have some method of handling this on your site, given that I can view a page of posts from 10 years ago and still see links to this year’s posts. How are you doing that with raw HTML? (If this question doesn’t make it clear, I am quite amateur.)

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Post by sam1r »

>> Focus more on the content and just ensure the process of writing and posting is simple enough.

I wonder if there’s any tools or pipelines for 1 place to write content and then deploy to many platforms based on our config / api keys..

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Post by refuse »

jeena wrote: post #190
colinflane wrote: post #128

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I was pleasantly surprised to learn writing raw html is not difficult, at all. I am not doing Rocket Science, though. As others say, static site generators introduce a layer of abstraction. I like writing in markdown too, but if I really cared to, I could write my own scripts to translate. However, I found that html does not introduce undue overhead. I am sure I could churn out content more quickly if I were writing…

I always wondered why browsers do not parse and understand markdown on their own, it would be so easy for thrm to implement it.

Along these lines...I'm surprised the HN crowd isn't into blogging in markdown, published in a git repo. About as simple as it gets and you don't get tied to a single platform. You could key sign it to ensure authenticity for when somebody rehosts it or whatever.

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Post by sethcalebweeks »

akshayrajp wrote: post #25

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 migrated from Jekyll to Astro a few weeks ago. It only took me a few hours to replicate the site, more or less. Here's the website and the post about the experience.

https://sethcalebweeks.com/til-astro-2/

Re: How to Start Your Blog in 2023

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Post by hota_mazi »

I would love to get a similar article describing the options for developer-oriented blogs.

Some requirements:

- Code snippets are pretty and colored, and cover multiple languages

- Posting images is easy

- There's a tool to convert my existing Wordpress articles into it (I have 20+ years of that)

- Ideally, Markdown, but I'd consider similarly intuitive mark ups (I can do HTML but would rather not)

Re: How to Start Your Blog in 2023

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Post by frosted-flakes »

vezuchyy wrote: post #177
BizarreByte wrote: post #147

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Always worth considering your national domain if it’s easy to register. I use .ca because really why wouldn’t I?

There's a problem with a national domain: people move. My .me domain is registered in 2009 (well, I know that it's a national domain) and I lived in three different countries since then with a permanent status in the current one and without plans to come back to my homeland.

So what? Unless there's a requirement for residence to renew why should it matter?

Re: How to Start Your Blog in 2023

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Post by roblh »

colinflane wrote: post #128
lapcat wrote: post #106

I am the "weird dude who writes raw HTML" LOL. I had a self-hosted WordPress blog from 2006-2010, but security updates become a burden, especially since I had to modify the WP source code a little to do exactly what I wanted with the RSS feeds. After a few years of not blogging at all, I decided to use the simplest possible "system", which is writing blog posts in raw HTML in a text editor, as well as writing the RSS…

I was pleasantly surprised to learn writing raw html is not difficult, at all. I am not doing Rocket Science, though. As others say, static site generators introduce a layer of abstraction. I like writing in markdown too, but if I really cared to, I could write my own scripts to translate. However, I found that html does not introduce undue overhead. I am sure I could churn out content more quickly if I were writing…

I had a similar feeling about markdown but I went a different direction and wrote a little package that parses markdown with front matter into html and saves it inside an in memory SQLite database. It runs quickly enough that it can hot reload anytime you save while it watches your blog posts directory. Gives you full text search and it exposes the database directly from the package so you can basically hook it up to anything.

I’m still ironing out the kinks, but it made blogging way more pleasant for me, after trying a few other things and being unimpressed overall.

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