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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 #188

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I have similar with even fewer steps! Edit directly in working copy Blog repo is on GitHub When I push to the main repo Cloudflare Pages does hugo build

Alright, you win. I do love iA Writer for writing prose, though.

That is fair, it is a very nice app to write in

Re: How to Start Your Blog in 2023

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Have been running the same blog, on and off, since 2001. It has gone through many iterations, including being nuked and restarted several times, using archive.org as my backup. The current iteration is optimized around not having it be a source of stress or anxiety for me. Here is my setup: * I just use self-hosted Wordpress site on a Digital Ocean droplet. * I made my own theme that strips pretty much everything out…

I wish more documentation sites just loaded a wall of text with page anchors for navigation rather than separate pages. Ctrl-f/cmd-f is the best search engine for documentation

Re: How to Start Your Blog in 2023

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Docusaurus is a great way to start a static blog. Give it a try!

Lots of features included: RSS, sitemaps, multi author, regular/guests, tags, unlisted/draft, i18n, accessibility, very customizable...

My newsletter is based on it: https://thisweekinreact.com/ I edit content there first in Markdown and then copy paste to ConvertKit

Re: How to Start Your Blog in 2023

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post #192

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Wait... You don't use an IDE taking up 2GB of RAM to write posts in "plain text" using a random flavor of Markdown, with custom extensions only supported by a single blog generator, and then use the command line to call 250MB worth of Node libraries which creates an AST from the barely parsable text file, all to then generate a basic static HTML file? What's wrong with you?

An IDE using 2 GB of RAM? 2010 called, they want their IDE back. In all seriousness I love me some JetBrains's, but boy do they eat RAM like there's no tomorrow. Still a paying and satisfied customer.

At least no one complains about Emacs anymore :)

Re: How to Start Your Blog in 2023

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post #225

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Medium is such a poor blogging platform that you need every post rehosted on archive sites so people can actually read them.

What does that even mean?

The parent is probably talking about the medium paywall, which is usually bypassed by getting it archived on the internet archive. The archive link to the post is preferable to the medium link to the post, at least for me.

Re: How to Start Your Blog in 2023

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post #98

How 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.

nice, good to see links to it! thank you for sharing it.
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