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Advice to use substack, medium and a few others similar. No point hosting a blog or anything of the sort, unnecessary effort in the beginning when you don't kn

Advice to use substack, medium and a few others similar. No point hosting a blog or anything of the sort, unnecessary effort in the beginning when you don't know if you'll continue.

wonger_ 2y ago
Manuel maintains a list of (low-fuss) blogging platforms: https://manuelmoreale.com/blog-platforms https://manuelmoreale.com/blog-platforms
aradox66 2y ago
OTOH setting up a static blog site is a great way to procrastinate on actually writing blog posts
- AndrewStephens 2y ago
  Hey, no need to call me out specifically like that.
- heelix 2y ago
  Ouch... that actually hits a bit close to home. After having a couple of blogging homes fold out from under me, I've kicked around the idea of coding up my own blog - which usually was in whatever framework/language I was getting ramped up in. I realize I've probably ported/built something a half a dozen times in the last decade, and never bothered to take the final step to deploy it before starting the next rewrite.
  - duggan 2y ago
    Take the last step! Just try not to account for it as the culmination of a decade’s work in your head. I recently rebuilt my own blog over the course of a month or so after a decade hiatus (and wrote about it, of course[1]). I enjoyed the process of working through all my little ideas and deploying it — and continuing to tinker on it. 1: https://duggan.ie/posts/ignoring-good-advice-and-building-my-own-blog-again https://duggan.ie/posts/ignoring-good-advice-and-building-my...
  - spc476 2y ago
    I started writing my blogging engine [1] in late 1999, and spent almost the next two years trying to get it perfect, while at the same time using it for blogging (locally at first). I finally got fed up with trying to perfect the software and just went public with it. I still use it after 25 years. Granted, there hasn't been a line of code that hasn't changed in that time, but it still feels the same to me, as it still works the same from a user perspective (entries can be added via a web interface, email, file (that was true even 25 years ago) and the PUT method (added last year); the storage system hasn't changed either and is backward compatible such that the code in 2001 (when I first went public) could still work on the data today). And yes, it is still a CGI script. I saw no need to change that over the years. [1] https://github.com/spc476/mod_blog https://github.com/spc476/mod_blog
codr7 2y ago
Why? Many people don't like using the platforms. They're obviously parasites. It's not very complicated to do yourself.
alp1n3_eth 2y ago
Obligatory "Substack has a Nazi Problem" article: https://archive.is/uyugO https://archive.is/uyugO Obsidian Publish, Micro.Blog, Ghost, BearBlog, HackMD, etc. are all great places to start, with less "baggage" associated with them. I know a lot of people write on Medium as well, but the account requirements that pop-up randomly are super annoying.

Advice to use substack, medium and a few others similar. No point hosting a blog or anything of the sort, unnecessary effort in the beginning when you don't know if you'll continue.

wonger_ 2y ago

Manuel maintains a list of (low-fuss) blogging platforms: https://manuelmoreale.com/blog-platforms https://manuelmoreale.com/blog-platforms

aradox66 2y ago

OTOH setting up a static blog site is a great way to procrastinate on actually writing blog posts

AndrewStephens 2y ago
Hey, no need to call me out specifically like that.
heelix 2y ago
Ouch... that actually hits a bit close to home. After having a couple of blogging homes fold out from under me, I've kicked around the idea of coding up my own blog - which usually was in whatever framework/language I was getting ramped up in. I realize I've probably ported/built something a half a dozen times in the last decade, and never bothered to take the final step to deploy it before starting the next rewrite.
- duggan 2y ago
  Take the last step! Just try not to account for it as the culmination of a decade’s work in your head. I recently rebuilt my own blog over the course of a month or so after a decade hiatus (and wrote about it, of course[1]). I enjoyed the process of working through all my little ideas and deploying it — and continuing to tinker on it. 1: https://duggan.ie/posts/ignoring-good-advice-and-building-my-own-blog-again https://duggan.ie/posts/ignoring-good-advice-and-building-my...
- spc476 2y ago
  I started writing my blogging engine [1] in late 1999, and spent almost the next two years trying to get it perfect, while at the same time using it for blogging (locally at first). I finally got fed up with trying to perfect the software and just went public with it. I still use it after 25 years. Granted, there hasn't been a line of code that hasn't changed in that time, but it still feels the same to me, as it still works the same from a user perspective (entries can be added via a web interface, email, file (that was true even 25 years ago) and the PUT method (added last year); the storage system hasn't changed either and is backward compatible such that the code in 2001 (when I first went public) could still work on the data today). And yes, it is still a CGI script. I saw no need to change that over the years. [1] https://github.com/spc476/mod_blog https://github.com/spc476/mod_blog

codr7 2y ago

Why? Many people don't like using the platforms. They're obviously parasites. It's not very complicated to do yourself.

alp1n3_eth 2y ago

Obligatory "Substack has a Nazi Problem" article: https://archive.is/uyugO https://archive.is/uyugO Obsidian Publish, Micro.Blog, Ghost, BearBlog, HackMD, etc. are all great places to start, with less "baggage" associated with them. I know a lot of people write on Medium as well, but the account requirements that pop-up randomly are super annoying.