I recently started making newsletters for friends as i have deleted all social media (bar this) and i find it super fun and a refreshing way to keep in contact (we send them back to each other). I try and create a new theme every month to pass onto them. And this month, i made a small static site with a few jokey articles on it.
At the end of it, it made me quite nostalic for what we used to have (i had an awful blog in high school, before social media took ahold).
Anyway, after reflecting on it. It made me want to find a few more blogs to read because i loved the format of it and it made me wonder, do you guys have a blog? what do you write about?
Do you want one? what WOULD you write about?
I have a blog generated with Hugo, but currently pretty sparse. I have a few tech tutorials explaining how I did cool projects I did, but I post very intermittently. I don’t want to post if I don’t have anything interesting or helpful to say. If I had more time, I would love to have time to read more books and write essays for my blog, but at the moment I don’t feel well-read enough to have anything super unique to say that’s not been better said by another writer I can link to.
I don’t write as frequently as I used to, but in case you’re interested in multimedia & data compression:
I have been considering buying a domain and starting one using either writefreely or plume.
I’ve just recently set up a blog usign Zola (https://www.getzola.org/) because i am looking for something where i’ll actually keep making posts. not quite ready to share it yet, but if it keeps going well i might.
The reason i chose Zola is because it’s easy to write new posts. it’s also simple to setup and very lightweight. a single exectuable (set up a systemd service to start it when the homelab server boots), forward web traffic to it, choose some theme you like and make simple markdown files as posts.
The simple markdown files as posts was the main criteria for me - a small header with title, date and categories, and after that just… pretty much plain text write your post, as a markdown file on the server it’s running on. No special login, no “publish” button, no fancypants UI with all kinds of fields to fill out and formatting options… just write. Zola detects itself it the filesystem changed and automatically reflects your changes on the site.
I have a blog! Usually, it’s photos from traveling or “how I made this” or “how I do this” kinds of posts. Basically, if I get tired of people asking me about something, I turn it into a blog post 😂
Probably the most interesting thing from it is the long-ass series of posts describing how I made my music album:
Yep, I have one for keeping friends and family updated on my travels without relying on FB/Insta/whatever. If interested, they can subscribe to my RSS feed. If not, I do it for myself and Sarvesh, a random (alleged) Indian man who thinks I am very beautiful and wants to marry me.
haha fantastic, I’m glad Sarvesh is getting in on the deets too
I think a few people have created their own locked (meaning only mods can post) Lemmy communities to use as their own personal blog. It’s worth noting that every Lemmy community has an RSS feed link.
oh that’s a pretty cool idea, I might have a nosey for any public ones
I do but as a ocassional hobby. It is mostly in Spanish tho
amazing, I love to see it, thanks for linking it!
Weeena!
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Somos el mejor país de Chile! Xd
Kind of - a personal website that I post articles on for various things. I like to share what I’ve learned, but it never gets much interest and less now. It’s something I’ve been doing in various forms for over two decades.
I’ve had a few hosted ones but I kind of hate them. I think I’ll build and self host a solution at some point because I just like things that I’ve made myself better.
is it the styles you’re not a fan of?
It’s more like, a blog is a personal thing. Using some off the shelf solutions removes that sense of personality to me I guess. It kind of makes the act of publishing the post feel like I’ve cheated somehow, when, all I’m really doing is putting text on the internet and I’m perfectly capable of doing that myself from a technical POV.
I get this with game dev as well, I’m much happier with games where I feel like I’ve worked with lower level tooling than a pre made engine. Sort of a personal not made here syndrome thing I suppose.
I have an art blog on Tumblr, but might create a side blog where I post photos of my travels while talking about the places I’ve been to! 😃
oh I love it, tumblr never crossed my mind! youre very talented btw, insane art works, they’re fab
Aw thank you so much! 😃 I’m glad you like them! Currently working on a huge drawing that’s gonna take a while!
I do, since before “blog” was a word.
I do, but I rarely have the time or energy to write on it. https://bjoern-tantau.de/
I also made one to collect the art by my babushka. https://brigitte-tantau.de/
oh fab! I unfortunately only speak English but I think they’re both great! lovely photos on the second one
I’ve been looking at selfhosting options for my partner, an author, who wants a blog.
So far I’ve tried Haven, and I’m not sure it’s gonna be a good fit, not having a “guest account” option for non-registered users.
If anyone has a recommendation I’d super appreciate it, ideal not dealing with nginx 😅
nginx is a reverse proxy and quite easy to use. You generally would have it in front of anything you host, no matter what it is. There are very few things I’d trust directly exposed.
Ghost is the most full featured self hosted blogging platform other than wordpress. If he doesn’t care if people read it or not there are plenty options to just privately post your crap (which is what I do so I can go back and reference) however you probably don’t want that since you want “option for non registered users”
As far as security goes running Hugo and generating static sites is about as secure as it gets, no backend no user interaction though
He can also sign up on any of the news/blog sites and post there like medium etc.
Thanks for the reply! Re direct expose: ive got a Cloudflare tunnel so I can keep my firewalls tight, I don’t directly expose anything ever, not since I made a Minecraft server directly exposed in 2018 and within hours had already had over 100 unidentified attempts at connection from who knows where.
I’ll take a look at Ghost, I don’t expect Hugo to be what they’re looking for but I’ll show them anyway.
Right now we’re looming for a place for her to mirror her Substack and start migrating her fans to her platform, rather than drive deeper into the corpoverse regarding sharing her work.
unidentified attempts are just standard internet, bots are always poking every port on every IP 24/7 for last 25 years never stopping.
yea good luck with the ghost, otherwise there is always wordpress lol. If you’re wanting reader/viewer interaction there are only a few other than maybe just running a forum and posting .
I do, about my self hosting shenanigans. But I haven’t made a post to it in over a year, and either way I don’t tie it into any of my other social platforms, preferring to stay as anonymous as possible.
perfectly understandable, being tied to my identity is partially what would be putting me off starting one now. I like to be honest with it but I’m not wanting to hand all that info out at the same time
