Ask HN: What Blogging Platform or Technology?

I want to start writing more about my current day to day duties plus my transition into InfoSec (pen testing.) I'm looking for some advice.

If you currently write a blog, what platform/technologies do you use and why?

If you started writing a blog today, what platform/technologies would you use and why?

If neither of the above applies to you, then consider this: what platform/technology have you found the best reading experience for you as a consumer of (online) content?

Thanks for the feedback.

Any chance it's open source?

There's kind of two sides to your question: the reading experience and the writing experience.

The reading experience is obviously important if you're blogging for your content to get shared or at least be accessible to people. Personally, I prefer any platform that outputs static HTML because it's fast and highly customizable. Jekyll, Gatsby, Hugo, and other static site generators are good for this.

On the writing side, you want to remove friction. The more mental effort required to get started writing, the less likely you'll stick with it. So, CMSes are nice for this. I have used Netlify CMS, Strapi, and plain markdown files in git for this in the past. If the blog doesn't have guest writers, I prefer the simplest path (writing markdown in git), but if you're opening up to guest posts in the future, you might want to give people a user friendly CMS.

VuePress site hosted for free at Github or Netlify. Basically a minimalistic Vue-powered static site generator. You can write blog posts in Markdown language or using HTML.