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Do you have any notes or advice for someone who wants to build a similar blog? Every time I try I get bogged down in the details (Wordpress is painful and buggy
by TurkishPoptart 6y ago
Do you have any notes or advice for someone who wants to build a similar blog? Every time I try I get bogged down in the details (Wordpress is painful and buggy...how to tag these articles and make a tag cloud... how to get people to sign up using some Mailchimp code....) and I can never get it off the ground.
- thesephist 6y agoI definitely don't have the best or ideal setup, but I keep things pretty simple. My blog's "CMS" under the hood is a single flat directory of markdown files. Each post is a markdown file, and I use Hugo (gohugo.io) to build a static site out of it and statically host it. I don't really use tags or hierarchies, even though Hugo supports it. My site isn't open source (b/c unfinished content) but in case it's helpful, it's based on this Hugo template project - https://github.com/thesephist/carlisle https://github.com/thesephist/carlisle Newsletter wise, I can't be super helpful because I roll my own infra through Mailgun, but I think in general the simpler the better, especially in the beginning. Substack seems popular these days.