by krrishd on 4/1/25, 2:26 AM with 29 comments
by chistev on 4/1/25, 5:54 AM
I self host because I love writing code. It's inspired by Medium. It was built with Django and Svelte. I could have written the whole thing with Django but I wanted to learn Svelte, and I had plans of making it bigger and more interactive initially.
It's hosted on Render.
by boricj on 4/1/25, 10:59 AM
The website itself is built on Jekyll, but I want to switch to something else because I don't use Ruby/Gem for anything else and I can't be bothered to commit that stack to memory just for that.
by dostoynikov on 4/7/25, 5:20 AM
Made with Hugo and hosted on SourceHut. I am not a developer but I can call myself tech-savvy I guess. I love to tinker on my blog a lot; inspire from and discover other blogs.
by csomar on 4/1/25, 2:18 PM
The static site is made with nextjs. This template: https://github.com/timlrx/tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog
by mattl on 4/1/25, 3:22 AM
https://mat.tl/blog/2024/10/29/migrating-from-wordpress-com-...
by LinuxBender on 4/1/25, 12:26 PM
by wannabebarista on 4/3/25, 11:50 PM
It is a static site using Jekyll and hosted on GitHub Pages. Although I'm not doing anything fancy, I'm surprised at how flexible Jekyll is when I try to add a feature.
by alp1n3_eth on 4/2/25, 11:29 PM
I use GitHub Pages for hosting, Porkbun for the domain, and Astro for the blog itself. EZPZ to manage and very straightforward, plus Astro's docs are great.
by krapp on 4/1/25, 3:11 PM
by fedorvin on 4/4/25, 12:20 AM
(My blog: Fedorvin.com)
by lappet on 4/1/25, 5:42 AM
by labarilem on 4/4/25, 11:01 PM
Quite simple stack: Jekyll on Github Pages.
by leonidasv on 4/6/25, 5:27 AM
by bergie on 4/1/25, 3:28 PM
Jekyll on GitHub Pages with various actions to automate stuff like calculating mileage statistics.
Editing via the GitJournal app.
by bvnierop on 4/2/25, 5:46 AM
by asukachikaru on 4/2/25, 4:31 AM
by petabyt on 4/1/25, 6:00 AM
by aosaigh on 4/1/25, 8:08 AM
by ridiculous_fish on 4/1/25, 3:41 AM
by skwee357 on 4/1/25, 5:49 AM
by quintes on 4/1/25, 3:28 AM
by brokegrammer on 4/2/25, 7:28 AM
by throwaway519 on 4/1/25, 3:03 PM
by sharmi on 4/1/25, 3:32 AM
VS Code for editing.
Points to Ponder
-> Use the basic Astro template for blogs. It is basically enough for a self-hosted blog needs. Using any of the third party themes/templates with a list of features has a bunch of disadvantages. It takes more effort to customize and upgrading to newer versions totally breaks the setup, sucking in hours of your time.
-> VS Code has plenty of Markdown Extensions. Markdown Preview and Frontend Masters come to mind.