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Hugo Landing Page
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Hugo

Hugo is a general-purpose website framework for generating static web pages.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Use a Static Site Generator like [Hugo](https://gohugo.io) and use GitHub pages or even Netlify which allows for CI/CD + Custom Domain with HTTPS/SSL certificates. I've been using Hugo + Netlify combination for more than 4 years now and It's a breeze.

#Static Site Generators #Blogging #Blogging Platform 392 social mentions
Astro Build Landing Page
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Astro Build

Astro is the web framework that you'll love to use.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Website Builder #Blogging #Blogging Platform 266 social mentions
Quarto Landing Page
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Quarto

Open-source scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Configuration Management #Text Editors #Mobile Apps 43 social mentions
Mataroa.blog Landing Page
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Mataroa.blog

Blogging platform for minimalists.
Pricing:
- Open Source
I'm a happy (albeit) infrequent user of https://mataroa.blog/.

#Blogging #Blogging Platform #Writing Tools 17 social mentions
Hashnode Landing Page

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Hashnode

A friendly and inclusive Q&A network for coders

I use Hashnode[0] for my main technical blog[1] as they support custom domain and all posts can be automatically saved to Github as markdown. I also use for manually saving some comments/replies I post on social media Scribbles - a simple blog engine. I publish them on a subdomain[3] in case you want to see how it looks like. Here are some things I would look for when choosing a platform: 1. Bring your own domain - this is very important because it allows flexibility to switch to any other platform while keeping your audience/place 2. Export as markdown - while markdown is not the best format, still exporting to it makes the possibility to migrate easier. 3. Have support for RSS - I use RSS to track a big number of technical blog and consider it important 4. Have support to display author name and date of publishing. This is important for technical topics to allow proper citation and to put the knowledge in context. - [0] https://hashnode.com - [1] https://allaboutcoding.ghinda.com - [2] https://scribbles.page - [3] https://notes.ghinda.com.

#Web App #Social Media Tools #Software Engineering 134 social mentions
Jekyll Landing Page
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Jekyll

Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator.
Pricing:
- Open Source
I run one blog on Jekyll[0], another on Hugo[1]. I must admit, Hugo somehow feels much more flexible and fast. - [0] https://jekyllrb.com/.

#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 199 social mentions
Hacker Stations Landing Page

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Hacker Stations

A collection of workspace setups by tech professionals.

#Tech #Productivity #Web App