1. What is your blog about?
2. How often do you write on it?
3. Where do you host it (medium, substack, self-hosted, etc.) and why?
4. Link?
2. Whenever I find the time, somewhere between a few times a week and twice a year, depending on lots of other circumstances.
3. Self-hosted (via azure & cloudflare) HTML generated from markdown files using a fun little utility I built as a learning project (all the generator code, markdown, & HTML is stashed on GH: https://github.com/mplanchard/speedy). For whatever reason I'm more motivated to maintain something I've built myself as compared to previous attempts with medium and such. The freedom to do whatever I want, however I want is nice. I can present things simply, with little to no adornment, avoid pushing trackers and ads on people, explicitly release my content under whatever copyright I want, etc. So far I've yet to incur any costs beyond Azure's free plan, but while it's been free so far, I'd gladly pay a bit of money to continue to keep it under my control.
Totally agree. For my blog (https://faical.dev) I have a very similar setup (S3 & Cloudflare) with HTML generated from Markdown using a small command line tool I built (https://github.com/ftchirou/article). For publishing, I push a Markdown file to a repo and a Bitrise workflow takes care of generating the HTML and uploading to S3.
Some of my posts are detailed articles which, in my next life will evolve to journal papers, but most are just interesting things I have stumbled upon and explored, and then shared because I thought others might find them helpful and/or interesting, too.
2. Sporadically, but about once a month.
3. Wordpress. Why? I just downloaded some themes and a handful of plugins, and voila! I had a blog that is: well designed; has a responsive layout; elegantly displays math equations, and although 99% of the time has miniscule traffic, it copes well with occasional HN-induced traffic spikes. This means I can then set it and forget it, and focus more on writing.
2. When I have an idea for an article and time to write it; average once every week to once every other week.
3. Self-hosted, since I have full control over it, and it might draw attention to the items I'm selling.
2. I post twice a week. I like the consistency and habit that regular posting imposes (I was posting 3x/week but found that was a bit too much).
3. I use Digital Ocean to host. The blog uses Ghost CMS. I’ve used WP in the past, but I like the blogging focus and relative simplicity of Ghost. On the hosting side, I like Digital Ocean’s pricing model, documentation and community. I’m starting a newsletter for the blog using substack mostly because it’s dead simple to setup a newsletter with them. And rather than fiddle with various solutions, I wanted something turnkey that I could just get started with immediately.
1. Personal development and life updates, but I'm working towards writing market commentary. Took a step in that direction with my latest post.
2. Once a week. It's a fairly tough publishing schedule though and longer essays take more than a week to write. I may rethink it in the future.
3. Wordpress on Bluehost because it was easy when I started. I wouldn't recommend it though. Load times aren't great and changes are unwieldy.
2. Once a week at the moment. It's a lot of effort but I hope to monetize eventually (similar to railscasts or Laracasts).
3.Self-hosted (to avoid platform risk) plus YouTube (for organic inbound)
2. Whenever I feel inspired. Sometimes that means several posts within a week or two, sometimes it means months without posting. I realized I can’t force myself to do it unless I’ve got something on my mind. I just can’t write about something that I’m not obsessed with.
3. I host it on netlify as a static site. Seemed easiest at the time.
2. Very inconsistently sometimes weekly and sometimes yearly... however as a target for the autumn I am aiming for monthly.
3. Currently it's a hugo site on a S3,cloudfront stack however I am in the process of moving away from US owned services so it will be moved to another host shortly.
2. Only a handful of times, over the past year. The time needed to write and edit can be long. I'm also trying to write a novel.
3. Medium. I'm a writer for a publication called Nightingale.
4. https://medium.com/@PhilHawkinsDC, my top article is this one: https://medium.com/nightingale/draw-the-rest-of-the-chart-88...
2. I am averaging about 1 post per 2 months :(
3. GitHub, because it is free and I can use markdown. Currently using a jekyll theme, but I'm planning to switch to static-site generator like https://github.com/getzola/zola
2. I post twice a month.
3. It's hosted on Netlify and built with Gatsby. All of my articles are just markdown files.
It's mostly about web programming and DevOps.
2. How often do you write on it?
Not as often as I would like. Been very busy.
3. Where do you host it (medium, substack, self-hosted, etc.) and why?
I actually just launched a new blogging platform at https://www.dynablogger.com so my blog is hosted there. It's a simple alternative to WordPress or Ghost. Check it out!
4. Link? https://vitobotta.com
2. I’m writing a book about career advice for programmers that will be published through Holloway early next year, so I don’t post on my blog very often. I’m trying to write in the open at least once a month though.
3. It’s hosted on netlify because it’s free. I use Hugo to generate the static site.
2. Anywhere from once a month to three times a week.
3. GitHub pages (i.e. a static Jekyll blog) with a domain purchased through Google. Mostly because it's free (except for the $12/year for the domain) but also because it gives me a lot of control over the actual HTML.
The goal is to enable my readers leverage these ideas for practical applications.
I currently release once a week on Sundays at 9am BST.
My newsletter is https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/
Check it out and please subscribe. It's growing and exciting.
2. I commit to the source code a couple times a week, but keep updating posts whenever I find time.
3. I host the source code on Github and deploy on Netlify.
2. Around 1 post every 1 to 2 weeks.
3. A self-hosted static-site generator I made myself 15 years ago.
2. I would say we average once a month or so.
3. Self-hosted WordPress. It's what we're familiar with and we can customize it easily if needed.
2. I have a reminder for every friday so yes, mostly 1 post weekly which is what I try to keep up to.
3. Github, because I wanted to learn github pages and also design a simple blog myself.
2. Once a week, videos as well
3. Self hosted, Wordpress because its easier for my partner to use. Eventually want to do a flutter app for this.
A nice way to preserve and document the uniqueness of Fijian/Fiji Indian food and something different to do apart from coding.
2. Every few weeks? Not often enough!
3. Self hosted with Ghost
2. I just recently started.
3. Hosted on Netlify, built with Hugo.
I started recently. So just once a week, I publish. Writing happens whenever I find a topic worth organising or sharing
Netlify. It’s free. I use gatsby theme borrowed from Victor Zhou
2. Maybe once a month
3. Self hosted. Got a server anyway, so I can as well host it myself.
2. Aiming for twice-weekly.
3. Regular web host w/WP. In the interest of 'stop playing around with tools/static sites and just write'.
2. Weekly, I aim to ship by Tuesday evening (Australian time)
3. Self-hosted on AWS S3, with a Cloudfront CDN.
2. Not enough.
3. Gastby.js and Netlify because it was easy to get started with.
2. From a couple times a week to every other month.
3. Self-hosted because of development-ease and customizability.
2. Haven't updated it in a while but used to be every week
3. Self-hosted, because I wanted custom features (community)
2. Sporadically, 1x a month on average
3. AWS S3 + Cloudfront, to control recurring costs and support spikey traffic
2. Whenever feel inspired & have a time. But trying to do this
once a week.
3. self-hosted. want to rise own traffic.