Launching an Engineering Blog

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WordPress.com Landing Page

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WordPress.com

Create a free website or build a blog with ease on WordPress.com. Dozens of free, customizable, mobile-ready designs and themes. Free hosting and support.

Launching a personal engineering blog has always been one of my career goals, which I had put off for a long time before finally achieving. There has been always a push back when it comes to choosing tech stack for building it, I never been a big fan of CMS solutions like wordpress and other similar CMS, there is nothing wrong with it, it's just a personal preference. The other option was to build it myself using any of the languages I am familiar with like PHP or Java but that was an over kill and too much for just a blog.

#Web Hosting #CMS #Hosting 1013 social mentions
Tailwind CSS Landing Page
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Tailwind CSS

A utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom user interfaces.
Pricing:
- Open Source
I decided to choose jigsaw as I am familiar with the technologies it's built with (PHP , Tailwind for styling and Blade as template engine) as it will be easy to customize if needed besides that, it comes with decent amount of features out of the box, I barely did any customization to it, just followed the installation instructions and got started.

#Developer Tools #Design Tools #Website Design 869 social mentions
Plausible.io Landing Page
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Plausible.io

Plausible Analytics is a simple, open-source, lightweight (< 1 KB) and privacy-friendly web analytics alternative to Google Analytics. Made and hosted in the EU, powered by European-owned cloud infrastructure 🇪🇺
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Paid
- Free Trial
- $9.0 / Monthly (10,000 pageviews)
Eventually I wanted to get some insights on blog views without invading visitors privacy and being GDPR compliance without Cookie banners. I found some great options like plausible and getinsights and decided to go for getinsights because they have a free tier and I am not really expecting heavy traffic at the beginning.

#Web Analytics #Analytics #Privacy 188 social mentions
Jigsaw (Tighten) Landing Page
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Jigsaw (Tighten)

Jigsaw is a framework for rapidly building static sites using the same modern tooling that powers...
Pricing:
- Open Source
I decided to choose jigsaw as I am familiar with the technologies it's built with (PHP , Tailwind for styling and Blade as template engine) as it will be easy to customize if needed besides that, it comes with decent amount of features out of the box, I barely did any customization to it, just followed the installation instructions and got started.

#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 8 social mentions
GitHub Actions Landing Page
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GitHub Actions

Automate your workflow from idea to production
Pricing:
- Open Source
After writing, I wanted to automate deployment and publishing. I am using Github as a repository and I have experience with CircleCi but I wanted to learn Github Actions. I decided to take this opportunity to learn Github Actions instead of CircleCi.

#DevOps Tools #Continuous Integration #Continuous Deployment 275 social mentions
CircleCI Landing Page

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CircleCI

CircleCI gives web developers powerful Continuous Integration and Deployment with easy setup and maintenance.

After writing, I wanted to automate deployment and publishing. I am using Github as a repository and I have experience with CircleCi but I wanted to learn Github Actions. I decided to take this opportunity to learn Github Actions instead of CircleCi.

#Continuous Integration #Continuous Deployment #DevOps Tools 61 social mentions