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Ask HN: Where and how do you blog? What platforms etc.?
I reached this stage in my career where I have a bursting need to start blogging all my insights about my niche
One consideration is that I want to reach an audience.
The second consideration is that I want to retain control of my work and redirect to my personal homepage.
I want to know your personal takes on blogging. How do you do it. On which platforms and why.
- slondr 3y agoMy blog, which has only a single post (which details why I set up the blog like this), is written in emacs org-mode and deployed using an Emacs Lisp build script to surge.sh. https://blog.ericlondr.es/ https://blog.ericlondr.es/ My one suggestion is that however you decide to publish your blog, be sure to include an Atom feed which is kept up-to-date. I don't do this for my blog yet, though I should.
- hsn915 3y agoI'm using substack, but eventually I want to move to something I own.
- bediger4000 3y agoI use Hugo. A while back, I evolved a WordPress honeypot. The amount and variety of attacks that WordPress draws is just astonishing, I can't comprehend using it. https://bruceediger.com/phparasites/ https://bruceediger.com/phparasites/ https://github.com/bediger4000/php-malware-analysis https://github.com/bediger4000/php-malware-analysis I rent a $5 a month VPS to run it. Effectively nobody reads blogs, even a cheap VPS can handle the traffic. I get to learn about DNS and other stuff to run it too. As far as "why", Daniel Miessler convinced me with this: https://danielmiessler.com/blog/why-everyone-needs-a-blog/ https://danielmiessler.com/blog/why-everyone-needs-a-blog/
- KomoD 3y agoSelf-hosted Ghost
- WorldPeas 3y agoGithub pages w/hugo is easy, free and looks nice. Not to mention, you can connect a domain