Ask HN: Looking for lightweight personal blogging platform

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Hugo

As per many other comments, it sounds like a static site generator like Hugo (https://gohugo.io/) or Jekyll (https://jekyllrb.com/), hosted on GitHub Pages (https://pages.github.com/) or GitLab Pages (https://about.gitlab.com/stages-devops-lifecycle/pages/), would be a good match. If you set up GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD to do the build and deploy (see e.g. https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-github/), your normal workflow will simply be to edit markdown and do a git push to make your changes live. There are a number of pre-built themes (e.g. https://themes.gohugo.io/) you can use, and these are realtively straightforward to tweak to your requirements.

#Static Site Generators #Blogging #Blogging Platform 353 social mentions

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Mataroa.blog

I love Mataroa: https://mataroa.blog I jumped from WordPress to Mataroa and I'm also using Jekyll, Hugo, Zola, and Obsidian to blog. There are a lot of great things about Mataroa that I love. I've blogged about Mataroa: https://pivic.blog/blog/mataroa/.

#Blogging #Blogging Platform #Writing Tools 9 social mentions

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Bear Blog

I really like https://bearblog.dev It helps you get focused on just writing while removing all the unnecessary stuff.

#Blogging #CMS #Blogging Platform 51 social mentions

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Astro Build

Many of the recommendations in this thread are great. Go with a SSG; almost all of the bigger players will be able to do everything you list and (a lot) more. Personally a big fan of Astro[1] but Hugo, Jekyll, 11ty, etc. Will do the job just fine and there's imo no reason to pick one over the other in your case apart from working with a framework in a language you're comfortable with. If you're looking to get started right away and don't care about having it hosted by someone else there's also bearblog[2] which I can recommend btw. [1] https://astro.build/.

#Website Builder #Blogging #Blogging Platform 177 social mentions

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Jekyll

In future, if you want to move from Jekyll to something else, you just have to worry about that `_posts` and `_assets` folder. They may have different naming convention but you can just config-managed it or change it to your choice. This is why I suggested owning that two yourself. You also may not worry about FrontMatter[3] (meta in the header) and its accompanying jazz by asking Jekyll to use the plugins `jekyll-optional-front-matter` and `jekyll-titles-from-headings`. These comes as part of the officially supported Jekyll plugins[4] by Github. That way, you are just writing a human-readable plain-text spiced up with Markdown and readable by almost every other Static Site Generator. Now, play with the `_config.yml` that Jekyll generates for you from the theme above to define your post dates, navigation, and others. Jekyll is one of the OGs — the Gandalf of Static Site Generators. If you have a problem, someone somewhere has solved that. Did I missed something? I was supposed to write a blog article for my website on this one and this comment will serve as my starting bullet points. 1. https://docs.github.com/en/pages/setting-up-a-github-pages-site-with-jekyll/adding-a-theme-to-your-github-pages-site-using-jekyll 2. https://jekyllrb.com 3. https://frontmatter.codes/docs/markdown 4. https://docs.github.com/en/pages/setting-up-a-github-pages-site-with-jekyll/about-github-pages-and-jekyll#plugins.

#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 180 social mentions

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Publii

Most SSGs, or if you want to have it easy: https://getpublii.com/ - generates static sites, can publish to github pages (among others), has themes.

#CMS #Blogging #Social & Communications 59 social mentions

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mkws(1)

May I recommend my personal creation https://mkws.sh/? Simple, sh based, very customizable, very lightweight.

#HTML #JavaScript #Web Development 18 social mentions

8

GitHub Pages

As per many other comments, it sounds like a static site generator like Hugo (https://gohugo.io/) or Jekyll (https://jekyllrb.com/), hosted on GitHub Pages (https://pages.github.com/) or GitLab Pages (https://about.gitlab.com/stages-devops-lifecycle/pages/), would be a good match. If you set up GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD to do the build and deploy (see e.g. https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-github/), your normal workflow will simply be to edit markdown and do a git push to make your changes live. There are a number of pre-built themes (e.g. https://themes.gohugo.io/) you can use, and these are realtively straightforward to tweak to your requirements.

#Static Site Generators #Cloud Computing #Blogging 466 social mentions

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SvelteKit

I've played around with several platforms in the last year or so. I've landed on the following setup that works very well for me and ticks all your boxes: A SvelteKit[0] app hosted on Cloudflare pages. The repo is hosted on GitHub and hooked up to the Cloudflare Pages app [1]. On PRs, I get preview environments. On merge, the changes get deployed to my "production" website. I write blog posts and other content in markdown, which is then processed by mdsvex[2] with very minimal setup. Mostly, my requirements were more focused around getting the actual framework, hosting, etc. Out of my way so that I could focus on writing. Gatsby and Next.js were too configuration heavy and turned me off once I scratched beyond the surface. [0] https://kit.svelte.dev/.

#Application And Data #Languages & Frameworks #Frameworks (Full Stack) 82 social mentions

10

omg.lol

Omg.lol (https://home.omg.lol/) has not been mentioned. You get quite a few nice bonuses from it (like community!) for a very reasonable, imo, $20USD a year. At least give it a look my friend!

#Developer Tools #Email #Email Routing 7 social mentions

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TiddlyWiki

Tiddlywiki might be interesting. https://tiddlywiki.com/.

#Note Taking #Knowledge Base #Personal Knowledge Base 180 social mentions

#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 1 social mentions

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Quartz

Quartz! https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/ Beautiful, performant, native support for editing via Obsidian. I use it for my personal side, https://thestu.art.

#Productivity #Writing Tools #Programming Language 6 social mentions

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Hexo

There's also hexo [1]. I saw that on Matt Klein's website [2] and the theme looked pretty clean. [1] https://hexo.io [2] https://mattklein123.dev/2020/03/08/2020-03-07-new-website/.

#Blogging #CMS #Blogging Platform 20 social mentions

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Quarto

Quarto - https://quarto.org I've been searching for some time also, more or less the same requirements, and I settled on quarto. Give it a try, you won't be disappointed!

#Configuration Management #Text Editors #Mobile Apps 20 social mentions

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Hakyll

Others have mentioned static site generators. I like Hakyll [1] because it can tightly integrate with Pandoc [2] and allows you to develop custom solutions if your needs ever grow. [1]: https://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/ [2]: https://pandoc.org/.

#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 6 social mentions

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ReText

#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1 social mentions