Hello HN, I've been considering starting a blog, but realized I didn't know where to start. Wanted some inspiration so I thought I'd ask ya'll:<p>1. What is your blog about?<p>2. How often do you write on it?<p>3. Where do you host it (medium, substack, self-hosted, etc.) and why?<p>4. Link?
1. Whatever I feel like writing about: largely rust, things I've enjoyed reading, opinions about work stuff, the occasional random other stuff, etc.<p>2. Whenever I find the time, somewhere between a few times a week and twice a year, depending on lots of other circumstances.<p>3. Self-hosted (via azure & cloudflare) HTML generated from markdown files using a fun little utility I built as a learning project (all the generator code, markdown, & HTML is stashed on GH: <a href="https://github.com/mplanchard/speedy" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mplanchard/speedy</a>). For whatever reason I'm more motivated to maintain something I've built myself as compared to previous attempts with medium and such. The freedom to do whatever I want, however I want is nice. I can present things simply, with little to no adornment, avoid pushing trackers and ads on people, explicitly release my content under whatever copyright I want, etc. So far I've yet to incur any costs beyond Azure's free plan, but while it's been free so far, I'd gladly pay a bit of money to continue to keep it under my control.<p>4. <a href="https://blog.mplanchard.com/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.mplanchard.com/</a>
1. Mainly <i>computational and applied maths</i> - especially in the context of statistical sampling and computer graphics.<p>Some of my posts are detailed articles which, in my next life will evolve to journal papers, but most are just interesting things I have stumbled upon and explored, and then shared because I thought others might find them helpful and/or interesting, too.<p>2. Sporadically, but about once a month.<p>3. Wordpress. Why? I just downloaded some themes and a handful of plugins, and voila! I had a blog that is: well designed; has a responsive layout; elegantly displays math equations, and although 99% of the time has miniscule traffic, it copes well with occasional HN-induced traffic spikes. This means I can then set it and forget it, and focus more on writing.<p>4. <a href="http://extremelearning.com.au/" rel="nofollow">http://extremelearning.com.au/</a>
1. Sensor readings, their applications, and electronics projects<p>2. When I have an idea for an article and time to write it; average once every week to once every other week.<p>3. Self-hosted, since I have full control over it, and it might draw attention to the items I'm selling.<p>4. <a href="https://www.anyleaf.org/blog" rel="nofollow">https://www.anyleaf.org/blog</a>
1. I post my book notes and other things I’m learning about. I started it a year ago and I’m still trying to figure out what it’s about.<p>2. I post twice a week. I like the consistency and habit that regular posting imposes (I was posting 3x/week but found that was a bit too much).<p>3. I use Digital Ocean to host. The blog uses Ghost CMS. I’ve used WP in the past, but I like the blogging focus and relative simplicity of Ghost. On the hosting side, I like Digital Ocean’s pricing model, documentation and community. I’m starting a newsletter for the blog using substack mostly because it’s dead simple to setup a newsletter with them. And rather than fiddle with various solutions, I wanted something turnkey that I could just get started with immediately.<p>4. <a href="https://mentalpivot.com" rel="nofollow">https://mentalpivot.com</a>
Great to hear. Everyone should write and publish online. Writing clarifies your thoughts. Publishing online allows you to receive feedback from others.<p>1. Personal development and life updates, but I'm working towards writing market commentary. Took a step in that direction with my latest post.<p>2. Once a week. It's a fairly tough publishing schedule though and longer essays take more than a week to write. I may rethink it in the future.<p>3. Wordpress on Bluehost because it was easy when I started. I wouldn't recommend it though. Load times aren't great and changes are unwieldy.<p>4. <a href="https://jonathanliu.me" rel="nofollow">https://jonathanliu.me</a>
1. I vlog about my 10 year perspective on maintaining and growing my software business (a web app marketplace I bootstrapped in 2010). Things like architecture, stability, performance,seo etc. I'm a strong believer in ignoring the fashions and searching for the timeless in software, and this is my attempt.<p>2. Once a week at the moment. It's a lot of effort but I hope to monetize eventually (similar to railscasts or Laracasts).<p>3.Self-hosted (to avoid platform risk) plus YouTube (for organic inbound)<p>4. <a href="https://www.semicolonandsons.com/l/rails" rel="nofollow">https://www.semicolonandsons.com/l/rails</a>
1. I write mostly about happenings in quantum information and quantum computing. Ranges between dives into interesting papers and commentary on recent funding/start-up developments.<p>2. Whenever I feel inspired. Sometimes that means several posts within a week or two, sometimes it means months without posting. I realized I can’t force myself to do it unless I’ve got something on my mind. I just can’t write about something that I’m not obsessed with.<p>3. I host it on netlify as a static site. Seemed easiest at the time.<p>4. <a href="https://whirlwind.netlify.app/" rel="nofollow">https://whirlwind.netlify.app/</a>
1. I try to write about daily life although I am far to inconsistent for that to work, I am a bit better at writing short reviews of books I read. The goal is to use the blog as a practise area for general writing and reflections about what I read.<p>2. Very inconsistently sometimes weekly and sometimes yearly... however as a target for the autumn I am aiming for monthly.<p>3. Currently it's a hugo site on a S3,cloudfront stack however I am in the process of moving away from US owned services so it will be moved to another host shortly.<p>4. <a href="https://fredrikloch.me" rel="nofollow">https://fredrikloch.me</a>
1. Data science, mostly visualization, sometimes as fiction.<p>2. Only a handful of times, over the past year. The time needed to write and edit can be long. I'm also trying to write a novel.<p>3. Medium. I'm a writer for a publication called Nightingale.<p>4. <a href="https://medium.com/@PhilHawkinsDC" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@PhilHawkinsDC</a>, my top article is this one: <a href="https://medium.com/nightingale/draw-the-rest-of-the-chart-88eb0e8babd4" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/nightingale/draw-the-rest-of-the-chart-88...</a>
1. Mainly book summaries/notes/reviews. Planning to evolve it into full-scale compilatory essays.
2. About once a week or once new material is available i.e. I've finished a new book.
3. Github because I haven't gotten around to hosting it on a "real" domain yet.
4. <a href="https://skorbenko.github.io" rel="nofollow">https://skorbenko.github.io</a>
PS. Any comments as per the improvement of content/styling/direction is welcome. You can comment here or shoot me an email through the form on the website.
1. Mostly self-promotional articles to lead towards my ebooks. But I'm proud of my 'customizing pandoc' and 'what next in Python' posts.<p>2. I am averaging about 1 post per 2 months :(<p>3. GitHub, because it is free and I can use markdown. Currently using a jekyll theme, but I'm planning to switch to static-site generator like <a href="https://github.com/getzola/zola" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/getzola/zola</a><p>4. <a href="https://learnbyexample.github.io/" rel="nofollow">https://learnbyexample.github.io/</a>
1. I write about the more philosophical aspects of software engineering. As the years passed I got more interested in the "why". Why do we use certain techniques. Why do we build software the way we do. I started researching my questions and writing essays based on what I've found mixed with some of my own thoughts.<p>2. I post twice a month.<p>3. It's hosted on Netlify and built with Gatsby. All of my articles are just markdown files.<p>4. <a href="https://alexkondov.com/" rel="nofollow">https://alexkondov.com/</a>
1. What is your blog about?<p>It's mostly about web programming and DevOps.<p>2. How often do you write on it?<p>Not as often as I would like. Been very busy.<p>3. Where do you host it (medium, substack, self-hosted, etc.) and why?<p>I actually just launched a new blogging platform at <a href="https://www.dynablogger.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.dynablogger.com</a> so my blog is hosted there. It's a simple alternative to WordPress or Ghost. Check it out!<p>4. Link?
<a href="https://vitobotta.com" rel="nofollow">https://vitobotta.com</a>
1. I write a mix between programming career advice and technical tutorials.<p>2. I’m writing a book about career advice for programmers that will be published through Holloway early next year, so I don’t post on my blog very often. I’m trying to write in the open at least once a month though.<p>3. It’s hosted on netlify because it’s free. I use Hugo to generate the static site.<p>4. <a href="https://www.exponentialbackoff.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.exponentialbackoff.com/</a>
1. What ever has piqued my interest. Mostly money topics and technical topics.<p>2. Anywhere from once a month to three times a week.<p>3. GitHub pages (i.e. a static Jekyll blog) with a domain purchased through Google. Mostly because it's free (except for the $12/year for the domain) but also because it gives me a lot of control over the actual HTML.<p>4. <a href="https://www.joehxblog.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.joehxblog.com/</a>
I write about ideas inspired from business,engineering and finance.
I also share original thoughts of mine.<p>The goal is to enable my readers leverage these ideas for practical applications.<p>I currently release once a week on Sundays at 9am BST.<p>My newsletter is
<a href="https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/" rel="nofollow">https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/</a><p>Check it out and please subscribe. It's growing and exciting.
1. Anything and everything. It is often about my current research or an interesting tid-bit from math, philosophy, social sciences etc. It is more of a fluid knowledge base than a blog.<p>2. I commit to the source code a couple times a week, but keep updating posts whenever I find time.<p>3. I host the source code on Github and deploy on Netlify.<p>4. <a href="https://im.perhapsbay.es" rel="nofollow">https://im.perhapsbay.es</a>
1. Various topics, most often about electronics and software. I'm currently writing about a system for RF vector measurements I'm making.<p>2. Around 1 post every 1 to 2 weeks.<p>3. A self-hosted static-site generator I made myself 15 years ago.<p>4. <a href="https://www.tablix.org/~avian/blog/" rel="nofollow">https://www.tablix.org/~avian/blog/</a>
1. WordPress and Laravel tips that we've learned through doing client work as well as case studies for clients<p>2. I would say we average once a month or so.<p>3. Self-hosted WordPress. It's what we're familiar with and we can customize it easily if needed.<p>4. <a href="https://alphaparticle.com/blog/" rel="nofollow">https://alphaparticle.com/blog/</a>
1. My experience learning technology, notes on books that I read and everything related to self improvement.<p>2. I have a reminder for every friday so yes, mostly 1 post weekly which is what I try to keep up to.<p>3. Github, because I wanted to learn github pages and also design a simple blog myself.<p>4. <a href="http://codingbbq.github.io" rel="nofollow">http://codingbbq.github.io</a>
1. Fiji food recipes<p>2. Once a week, videos as well<p>3. Self hosted, Wordpress because its easier for my partner to use. Eventually want to do a flutter app for this.<p>4. <a href="https://thatfijitaste.com/" rel="nofollow">https://thatfijitaste.com/</a><p>A nice way to preserve and document the uniqueness of Fijian/Fiji Indian food and something different to do apart from coding.
1. Anything I google and don't find an obvious answer - reinforces the learning and may save someone else the effort! Also side project status updates as it's useful to look back and see progression<p>2. Every few weeks? Not often enough!<p>3. Self hosted with Ghost<p>4. <a href="https://blog.sixpoints.co.uk" rel="nofollow">https://blog.sixpoints.co.uk</a>
1. Streaming, server-side media processing, graphics, networking and all things related. These are things that interest me and I'm sure there are my soulmates out there with similar interests.<p>2. I just recently started.<p>3. Hosted on Netlify, built with Hugo.<p>4. <a href="https://ivarsblog.com" rel="nofollow">https://ivarsblog.com</a>
My blog is about field stories on product and engineering : <a href="https://amols.blog" rel="nofollow">https://amols.blog</a><p>I started recently. So just once a week, I publish. Writing happens whenever I find a topic worth organising or sharing<p>Netlify. It’s free. I use gatsby theme borrowed from Victor Zhou
1. Software engineering in general. Topics I get in contact with and think about. A lot of it gets a bit philosphical because I don't have clear answers.<p>2. Maybe once a month<p>3. Self hosted. Got a server anyway, so I can as well host it myself.<p>4. <a href="https://stefanschick.eu" rel="nofollow">https://stefanschick.eu</a>
1. 'Random' as I develop a new direction.<p>2. Aiming for twice-weekly.<p>3. Regular web host w/WP. In the interest of 'stop playing around with tools/static sites and just write'.<p>4. <a href="https://jamesgill.net/articles/" rel="nofollow">https://jamesgill.net/articles/</a>
1. I mainly write about what I work on day-to-day. At the moment, that's using React as a frontend developer.<p>2. Weekly, I aim to ship by Tuesday evening (Australian time)<p>3. Self-hosted on AWS S3, with a Cloudfront CDN.<p>4. <a href="https://maxrozen.com" rel="nofollow">https://maxrozen.com</a>
1. Technical topics that strike my interest. Thinking of expanding it to include other things I'm interested in.<p>2. Not enough.<p>3. Gastby.js and Netlify because it was easy to get started with.<p>4. <a href="http://carlchesterlloyd.com/" rel="nofollow">http://carlchesterlloyd.com/</a>
1. Security, privacy, software development, music, random goings on...<p>2. From a couple times a week to every other month.<p>3. Self-hosted because of development-ease and customizability.<p>4. <a href="https://www.eivindarvesen.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.eivindarvesen.com</a>
1. Productized services.<p>2. Haven't updated it in a while but used to be every week<p>3. Self-hosted, because I wanted custom features (community)<p>4. <a href="https://www.productizedstartups.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.productizedstartups.com</a>
1. Random thoughts and things I find
2. At least once a week
3. self hosted with ghost
4. <a href="https://www.michael1e.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.michael1e.com/</a>
1. Technologies & lifestyle decisions<p>2. Sporadically, 1x a month on average<p>3. AWS S3 + Cloudfront, to control recurring costs and support spikey traffic<p>4. <a href="https://maxmautner.com" rel="nofollow">https://maxmautner.com</a>
1. My personal public diary
2. Very rare
3. Self-hosted and built on wordpress
4. <a href="https://www.aayushaggarwal.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.aayushaggarwal.com</a>
1. I'm writing about all startups we are working on.<p>2. Whenever feel inspired & have a time. But trying to do this<p>once a week.<p>3. self-hosted. want to rise own traffic.<p>4. <a href="http://urlaunched.com/blog" rel="nofollow">http://urlaunched.com/blog</a>