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.
"Weird Dude Who Writes Raw HTML"
My most recent example:
ooof.. this chart is making my day, not because of it's content, but it's presentation. Apparently it only works if you have very different scales for x and y axis. As you have the same metrics on both of them (number of posts), it only worked if like x axis is from 1 to 10 while y axis is either log or from 1 to 100 or so. Or you choose a differnt metric for the x axis, like "share of posts about blog setups".
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.
Would you consider participating in a private beta of https://exotext.com/, a simple blogging platform I'm building? (example blog: https://rakhim.exotext.com/)
If so, please send me an email: hello at rakhim.org
(I'll update my website soon and will make the licensing clearer.)
This picture was used here:https://www.janromme.com/2025/04/are-there-any-good-blogging...
Thanks a lot. That graph is useful, and a nice shout-out is always good.
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.
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".