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On my personal site (also built with Hugo) I post images of food I have eaten and media I have consumed. I could use Instagram, Bluesky or X but I want the content to be mine and stay mine. And I am doing it because I like to blog things not because I want the interaction on social media.

https://www.planetjones.net/food.html

https://www.planetjones.net/reviews.html

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Where did you settle on for your image hosting? I like GH Pages and Hugo, but it feels dirty to put images in a git repository. At the same time, GitHub does allow 5GB per repo, so I'm torn.

I use Cloudflare R2, which is free for up to 1 million writes and 10 million reads per month with no egress costs.

I also use Hugo and GitHub Pages for their simplicity. I wrote about this setup here[1].

[1]: https://rednafi.com/misc/behind_the_blog/

I am user of dreamhost so the images get stored there. I wrote about my set-up on my blog.

https://www.planetjones.net/blog/03-05-2023/relaunching-my-p...

Yeah, the whole point of this is tracking the progress of something, not vanity interaction. This is why I decided to leave it out of the main RSS feed to avoid spamming readers.

So... you want to use your blog as some kind of a log ported to the web?

Yeah, most tools are built to support something different.

Not the entire blog, just a single page, yes.

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