Ask HN: Where and how do you blog? What platforms etc.?

3 points·numbers_guy··7 comments

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.

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I 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://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/

My 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/

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.

Github pages w/hugo is easy, free and looks nice. Not to mention, you can connect a domain

I'm using substack, but eventually I want to move to something I own.

Self-hosted Ghost

I second this. It's super easy to setup and it comes with a lot neat features out of the box

Yep, especially easy when you use something like PikaPods, costs like ~$2/mo to run

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