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Comment by NoSalt | Hacker News Reader

The title should be "How to make a damn blog.", as that appears to be the primary focus of the article.

In 2021 I made a post here entitled "Just make the damn blog!", which was directed at myself. I'd hoped I'd finally cracked the website code and found something I'd want to maintain, but I ended up forgetting about it a week later:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27026864

https://web.archive.org/web/20210503161408/http://rendello.c...

A blog is a type of website

Kids these days forgetting what blog is short for! ;)

In the past, I've had a few visitors to my website look at a possibly silly post and ask me why it was even worth blogging about.

That is when I bring out the expanded form of 'blog' in all its glory. It is my weblog. Of course I am going to log whatever I want for myself, regardless of whether it is interesting to others. I do not need to subscribe to someone else's notion of what is interesting in order to decide what belongs on my own weblog.

Yes, but the author's title framed it as a generic "website", not a specific web log site.

I think the intent was making a blog has additional requirements one might not need to just make a website, a la what the "The Hard Way" section tries to argue against, not a claim a blog is not also a website (anything the page says not to use will also lead you to having a website as well - just with more than minimal work).

E.g. the section covering RSS for your post is longer than the section covering HTML, you don't really need a fixed structure, and you don't need to think of a story to write unless that's what you want to do. You can just post a picture of your cat and try to add googly eyes later if that's what floats your boat. Or just "Hello World" and let your mind go from there.

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