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I know some people like Tumblr. Or Blogger. They aren't sexy but who cares? The important part is the writing. And as long as you have your own domain you can move later when you have a free weekend and want to migrate elsewhere.

If you want to invest a bit more time, Jekyll on GitHub pages is a really great setup and I highly recommend it.

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swanson - I and many others use pelican, which is another static blog generator (like Jekyll). I use it along with github pages. Super simple.

Pelican docs:

http://docs.getpelican.com/en/3.2/

My personal site as an example:

www.roycehaynes.com

Does using GitHub pages imply a connection to some project hosted on GitHub? (The side-project I'm working on isn't on GitHub.)

Not necessarily - you can have a standalone blog (e.g. https://github.com/swanson/swanson.github.com). GH Pages does allow you to easily setup a project page per repository, but it is not required.

You can also pick up a domain name and point it at your github repo. I've got wickerbox.net for $10 a year from Namecheap being served out of wicker/wicker.github.com. One of the neat features is that any time you do put in a gh-pages branch in one of your other repositories, it's accessible by wickerbox.net/name-of-repo.

Thanks for writing this, swanson. I've written on and off over the last few years but lately I've wanted to write, started to write, and then lost the nerve and never posted. Hearing "you don't have to be the next Joel On Software" helps.

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