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Great stuff, looking forward to your next blog post in 1 year: “How I rebuilt my blog on…” A fun hobby of mine is Googling “how I built this blog with [next.js

Great stuff, looking forward to your next blog post in 1 year: “How I rebuilt my blog on…” A fun hobby of mine is Googling “how I built this blog with [next.js/Gatsby/etc etc]” and going to page 10 of the Google results. It’s just hundreds of developer blogs with no blog posts other than the ones announcing how the blog was built.

ChadMoran 2y ago
This reminds me of people who will make an entire YouTube series on crafting the perfect Notion architecture. Only to not actually use it.
- mmsimanga 2y ago
  I am in a worse group. Changed my blogging platform, wrote the obligatory post detailing why I changed platform and couldn't even get that obligatory post out. I hang my head
ingav 2y ago
Haha, been there. But this setup’s actually working really well for me. It’s not chasing the "hot new thing," it’s going back to stuff that’s proven and solid.
jasonthorsness 2y ago
Is there a support group for this? I have not rebuilt my blog since Feb 21 2024 though I have been sorely tempted :P
- fabianholzer 2y ago
  There probably should be one, maybe taking turns with the biweekly Authors of custom static site Generators Anonymous meeting
barrenko 2y ago
It's our Hello World of sorts.
- netsharc 2y ago
  I remember someone presenting a development framework and saying something similar to this, "Of course, I used it to build a blogging platform..."
freetonik 2y ago
I’ve noticed this a lot, too, and made this drawing as a joke: https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19/ https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19/
- ceautery 2y ago
  I'm in the "old-ass blogger.com site" category, with posts going back to '05.
  - martylamb 2y ago
    Literally just posted my newly hogoized site that dates back to 2003 THIS MORNING. :)
- realprimoh 2y ago
  This is hilarious, and so true
- rsync 2y ago
  Oh, you put me on your graph! "Weird Dude Who Writes Raw HTML" My most recent example: https://kozubik.com/items/wago_audio/ https://kozubik.com/items/wago_audio/
  - gen220 2y ago
    Just a small word of unasked-for-advice... consider compressing your images further! Even ignoring bandwidth concerns, a 1.3MB image takes a while to paint :)
- janandonly 2y ago
  Can I use this image on my blog? I will off course link to you site. It’s to illustrate a point about my blogspot blog haha… I’ve been looking to switch over to something else. But I’ve been actively blogging since 2006 and I haven’t found a good enough way and platform to switch over to.
  - 2y ago
devsda 2y ago
Haha. I guess discovering & teaching how to do X is more rewarding than doing X. It applies to blogging, PKM and productivity too. Is there a name for this phenomenon where this actually turns out to be true? Closest I can think of is "During a gold rush, sell shovels".
nickjj 2y ago
I started with and used Jekyll for almost ~10 years and ~500 posts before switching to Hugo. I have a 7,000 word blog post on how and why I switched which I didn't publish yet because I wanted to wait 6+ months with Hugo to make sure I ironed out all of the kinks. I guess I'm the anti-case for this one! Maybe I should post this one next week. It's been quite stable.
- nickjj 1y ago
  Here's the post: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/converting-my-500-page-blog-from-jekyll-to-hugo https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/converting-my-500-page-blog-f...
sorokod 2y ago
or filler posts like this one in the same blog: https://ingau.me/notes/asymmetric-encryption/ https://ingau.me/notes/asymmetric-encryption/
BeetleB 2y ago
A bit unfair to the OP, given that he actually does write posts on his blog.
- Lord_Zero 2y ago
  Unfair in general. Building and hosting a blog is a cool learning experience and worth blogging about to remember and teach others.
wolfgang42 2y ago
I’ve been through a couple of different tools for my personal blog, and, having seen this trap, every time I did the migration I made sure to write a blog post about something completely unrelated instead. A few years ago I built my own static site generator and I vowed that I would never try to publish it for other people to use, another trap[1] that often springs on enthusiastic developer-blogger types. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21616774 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21616774
dredmorbius 2y ago
Counterpoint: gwern.

ChadMoran 2y ago

This reminds me of people who will make an entire YouTube series on crafting the perfect Notion architecture. Only to not actually use it.

mmsimanga 2y ago
I am in a worse group. Changed my blogging platform, wrote the obligatory post detailing why I changed platform and couldn't even get that obligatory post out. I hang my head

ingav 2y ago

Haha, been there. But this setup’s actually working really well for me. It’s not chasing the "hot new thing," it’s going back to stuff that’s proven and solid.

jasonthorsness 2y ago

Is there a support group for this? I have not rebuilt my blog since Feb 21 2024 though I have been sorely tempted :P

fabianholzer 2y ago
There probably should be one, maybe taking turns with the biweekly Authors of custom static site Generators Anonymous meeting

barrenko 2y ago

It's our Hello World of sorts.

netsharc 2y ago
I remember someone presenting a development framework and saying something similar to this, "Of course, I used it to build a blogging platform..."

freetonik 2y ago

I’ve noticed this a lot, too, and made this drawing as a joke: https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19/ https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19/

ceautery 2y ago
I'm in the "old-ass blogger.com site" category, with posts going back to '05.
- martylamb 2y ago
  Literally just posted my newly hogoized site that dates back to 2003 THIS MORNING. :)
realprimoh 2y ago
This is hilarious, and so true
rsync 2y ago
Oh, you put me on your graph! "Weird Dude Who Writes Raw HTML" My most recent example: https://kozubik.com/items/wago_audio/ https://kozubik.com/items/wago_audio/
- gen220 2y ago
  Just a small word of unasked-for-advice... consider compressing your images further! Even ignoring bandwidth concerns, a 1.3MB image takes a while to paint :)
janandonly 2y ago
Can I use this image on my blog? I will off course link to you site. It’s to illustrate a point about my blogspot blog haha… I’ve been looking to switch over to something else. But I’ve been actively blogging since 2006 and I haven’t found a good enough way and platform to switch over to.
- 2y ago

devsda 2y ago

Haha. I guess discovering & teaching how to do X is more rewarding than doing X. It applies to blogging, PKM and productivity too. Is there a name for this phenomenon where this actually turns out to be true? Closest I can think of is "During a gold rush, sell shovels".

nickjj 2y ago

I started with and used Jekyll for almost ~10 years and ~500 posts before switching to Hugo. I have a 7,000 word blog post on how and why I switched which I didn't publish yet because I wanted to wait 6+ months with Hugo to make sure I ironed out all of the kinks. I guess I'm the anti-case for this one! Maybe I should post this one next week. It's been quite stable.

nickjj 1y ago
Here's the post: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/converting-my-500-page-blog-from-jekyll-to-hugo https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/converting-my-500-page-blog-f...

sorokod 2y ago

or filler posts like this one in the same blog: https://ingau.me/notes/asymmetric-encryption/ https://ingau.me/notes/asymmetric-encryption/

BeetleB 2y ago

A bit unfair to the OP, given that he actually does write posts on his blog.

Lord_Zero 2y ago
Unfair in general. Building and hosting a blog is a cool learning experience and worth blogging about to remember and teach others.

wolfgang42 2y ago

I’ve been through a couple of different tools for my personal blog, and, having seen this trap, every time I did the migration I made sure to write a blog post about something completely unrelated instead. A few years ago I built my own static site generator and I vowed that I would never try to publish it for other people to use, another trap[1] that often springs on enthusiastic developer-blogger types. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21616774 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21616774

dredmorbius 2y ago

Counterpoint: gwern.