If you’d like to dip your toe in the blogging pool for the first time (or again), I’d appreciate if you gave https://pika.page/ a look. It’s free for your first 50 posts (that’s a lot).
Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?
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#172Here are some reasons to start a personal blog: 1. It's a great way to learn. Teaching something to someone else has always been the best learning tool, and writing about something with an audience in mind is an effective way to capture some of that value. 2. It can be a big boost in job hunting. As a hiring manager two of the most important questions I have about a potential candidate are: Can they code? Can they co…
My biggest problem so far is with cost. I dont like recurring fees. I could pay a one-time fee for say 100 pages and last an eternality ( or 50 years or something ). I also dont like subscription, and it has nothing to do with subscription fatigue, it is just the way I manage my money since before Youtube or Netflix took off. And so far I haven't seen any viable options. And right now I use HN comments as more like a…
I have supabase for data and cloudflare for hosting, its all free
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#173I sometimes think about the best way to create some kind of semi-offline local diary. Like a RPI with a public AP, disconnected from the greater internet and with a default gateway page eing the diary. Are there any standards or customs for such a thing?
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#174Re: Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?
#175Medium, Substack, Reddit and even X, are all evolutions of personal blogging. How do we over come the issue of promotion of independent blog pages?
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#176Earlier quoted context omitted.
My biggest problem so far is with cost. I dont like recurring fees. I could pay a one-time fee for say 100 pages and last an eternality ( or 50 years or something ). I also dont like subscription, and it has nothing to do with subscription fatigue, it is just the way I manage my money since before Youtube or Netflix took off. And so far I haven't seen any viable options. And right now I use HN comments as more like a…
Codeberg or GitHub pages are free. For static website hosting, NearlyFreeSpeech.NET is... well... nearly free. https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/services/pricing
Netlify is also a good free option for non techies since you can just drag a directory to deploy it. I’ve also used Cloudfare Pages.
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#177niche blogs feel like the natural next step — focused, resilient, and more trustworthy than generic feeds.
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#178There are just not enough ways to discover personal blogs. HN is a great source, but you'll notice over time there are always AskHN posts asking something like "What is a site like HN for..", and people trying to build HN clones. Reddit was good for a while for this, but hasn't been for a long time. I'm hoping people rediscover/reinvent slashdot.
Yeah there could be better ways but I've found a handful of sites that are useful like https://indieblog.page/ . I actually wrote up a list of my favorite personal blog discoverability sites here: https://nelson.cloud/how-i-discover-new-blogs/
> A list of all sites indexed by Kagi Small Web is on GitHub: https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/main/smallweb.tx...
As a Kagi customer I have to say that's a disappointingly short list and static approach :/
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#179> But with the revival of personal blogs well underway Is it? I haven't seen anyone in my circle return to blogging, nor kids of this generation. Discoverability is going to be a massive problem, since search engines are dead. Maybe word-of-mouth through social media is enough?
> nor kids of this generation.
(I fear) the blog of this generation's kids is called TikTok or whatever and the form is video instead of text.
Re: Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?
#180Here are some reasons to start a personal blog: 1. It's a great way to learn. Teaching something to someone else has always been the best learning tool, and writing about something with an audience in mind is an effective way to capture some of that value. 2. It can be a big boost in job hunting. As a hiring manager two of the most important questions I have about a potential candidate are: Can they code? Can they co…
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