This. The hilarity of the HN crew when it comes to personal blogging is just endlessly behind compare. “I just boot up a new Docker instance, grunt the next.js out of my Hugo, netlify the MD files and sync my media using my homegrown jamstack media server. It only takes me 25 minutes to publish a post”.

JUST USE WORDPRESS!

If you genuinely find it too hard to self host (and I’m banging my head against the table cos this is HN where people apparently know what they’re doing with tech, and it’s a LAMP stack ffs), then do it on Wordpress.com. Free! Easy! Simple to migrate if you do one day want to self host! No blockers to exporting your content as XML! Or CSV! Or hit up the API!

Funny old lark.