Hacker News with Generative AI: Blogging

Replacing Hugo with a Custom Kotlin Blog Engine (cekrem.github.io)
Don’t get me wrong - Hugo (the stuff that I’m currently using to drive this site) is great. It’s blazing fast, feature-rich, and battle-tested. But as a developer who’s been diving deep into Clean Architecture lately (as you might have noticed from my recent posts), I’ve been itching to apply these principles to a real project. And what better way to learn than by potentially over-engineering my own blog engine?

Software, Web Development, Kotlin, Blogging

3 points by thunderbong 9 days ago | 0 comments

No longer writing my own damn HTML (claytonwramsey.com)
I’ve (mostly) given up on hand-writing HTML for my personal blog.

Web Development, Blogging, Personal Projects

86 points by claytonwramsey 10 days ago | 93 comments

I Blog with Raw Txt (misc.l3m.in)

Blogging, Programming, Text Editing

32 points by simonpure 10 days ago | 17 comments

I Blog with Raw HTML (devpoga.org)
The blog you're reading is written in raw HTML.

Web Development, Blogging, HTML

114 points by poga 12 days ago | 127 comments

Why blog if nobody reads it? (andysblog.uk)
Let’s tell the truth, then: Nobody reads your blog.

Blogging, Content Creation, Audience

770 points by alexgiann 12 days ago | 359 comments

Why UK Online Safety Act may not be safe for bloggers (theregister.com)
Individual publishers could be held liable for visitors' off-topic posts, legal eagle argues

Online Safety, Legislation, Blogging, UK, Law

4 points by LinuxBender 13 days ago | 1 comments

The Puzzle (bearblog.dev)
I admit I censor myself.

Blogging, Self-Reflection, Writing

9 points by thejamesbox 13 days ago | 17 comments

Build a link blog like Simon Willison (xuanwo.io)
I decided to follow simon's approach to creating a link blog, where I can share interesting links I find on the internet along with my own comments and thoughts about them.

Web Development, Blogging, Productivity, Personal Projects

236 points by xuanwo 17 days ago | 54 comments

Please help me find better blogs to read (ycombinator.com)
Sick and tired of standard narratives about DeepSeek or some asinine political theater. I just wanna enjoy the things I read.

Blogging, Personalization, Content Consumption

59 points by iwatog 17 days ago | 69 comments

Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog (henrikkarlsson.xyz)
I talked to a friend who wants to start a blog, and she pulled a few thoughts from me:

Blogging, Advice, Content Creation

348 points by jger15 23 days ago | 190 comments

Blogging on Paper (2017) (conroy.org)
I recently published my first blog post of 2017. The fact that it was posted exactly one year after my last post was mere coincidence. Looking over the the last six years of my blog, it's hard to really call it a blog at all.

Blogging, Writing, Personal Projects

29 points by luu 24 days ago | 12 comments

Writing a tech blog people want to read (seangoedecke.com)
My blog has gotten a lot of traffic in the last few months1. Here’s what I think I’ve been doing that’s working, and a few things that have been surprising to me. It’s a bit self-indulgent to write a meta post like this, but that’s what blogs are for.

Blogging, Content Creation, Writing, Technology, Traffic

38 points by gfysfm 27 days ago | 3 comments

Powering your Hugo blog with Bluesky Comments (kau.sh)
Twitter’s change in ownership triggered a cascade of events birthing various social media clones. It’s been tricky to decide which network to invest time and energy in. I’m not an influencer, but I’d be kidding myself if I thought having a presence on social media wasn’t important.

Social Media, Blogging, Open Source, Decentralization, Hugo

7 points by wmat 31 days ago | 1 comments

I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too (bearblog.dev)
I've been using Feeder to keep up with the news for awhile now. For a long time, I just checked AllSides.

RSS, News, Technology, Blogging

464 points by emschwartz 35 days ago | 242 comments

Ask HN: Is maintaining a personal blog still worth it? (ycombinator.com)
Remember when maintaining a blog was THE way to build your developer brand?

Developer Branding, Personal Websites, Blogging, Web Development

217 points by namanyayg 39 days ago | 161 comments

Reflections on 1 Year of (Trying to) Become Successful on YouTube (chaserensberger.com)
In 2024, my friend and I started making YouTube videos. This article is just some housekeeping I’m doing to keep track of progress for this channel. I hope that some people find it valuable. I offer some advice in this article, but everything should be taken with a grain of salt, as we are not (hopefully yet) a successful channel. If you’re interested in getting in touch, there is contact information at the end of the article.

YouTube, Content Creation, Blogging, Personal Experiences, Advice

36 points by ChaseRensberger 42 days ago | 31 comments

Link Blog in a Static Site (rednafi.com)
One of my 2025 resolutions is doing things that don’t scale and doing them faster without overthinking.

Static Sites, Web Development, Blogging

56 points by nurandal 43 days ago | 17 comments

My approach to running a link blog (simonwillison.net)
I started running a basic link blog on this domain back in November 2003—publishing links (which I called “blogmarks”) with a title, URL, short snippet of commentary and a “via” link where appropriate.

Blogging, Web Development, Links, Personal Projects

53 points by prawn 49 days ago | 18 comments

BlogScroll – An open directory of personal sites and blogs (blogscroll.com)
This project was created by Den Delimarsky in an effort to bring attention to little 🌱 digital gardens and ✨ personal corners of the internet that people maintain outside the "Big Tech" walled gardens. We're all better off maintaining homegrown corners of the Internet.

Web Development, Blogging, Digital Gardens, Decentralization

276 points by mahirsaid 50 days ago | 81 comments

My approach to running a link blog (simonwillison.net)
I started running a basic link blog on this domain back in November 2003—publishing links (which I called “blogmarks”) with a title, URL, short snippet of commentary and a “via” link where appropriate.

Blogging, Web Development, Personal Projects, Content Creation

29 points by robenkleene 50 days ago | 10 comments

I wish your bespoke React-Tailwind-etc. static site generator had RSS (exotext.com)
I discover and curate dozens of blogs every day while working on Minifeed. The blogging is far from dead, there are SO many blogs out there!

RSS, Blogging, Web Development

14 points by freetonik 56 days ago | 2 comments

Breaking the Status Quo – A vision for a new WordPress era (joost.blog)
WordPress is at a crossroads, now even more clearly then when I wrote my previous post on WordPress’s roadmap. I had very much intended to leave this topic alone for a bit until after the holiday break, until, last night, Matt imposed a holiday break on us all.

WordPress, Web Development, Technology, Blogging

5 points by pabs3 56 days ago | 0 comments

AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog (nelson.cloud)
I have a growing hatred for AI-generated images in blogs. It makes me wonder if the text in the blog posts is AI-generated to some extent. It’s always disappointing seeing these images in blogs run by individuals. I expect this from corporate blogs but not indie blogs.

Artificial Intelligence, Blogging, Content Creation, Design, Opinion

93 points by nelsonfigueroa 59 days ago | 49 comments

Ask HN: How do you improve your writing? (ycombinator.com)
I've been writing more and more on Substack. I started with simple Haikus and just expanded with longer posts before settling into this mix of poetry, mental health and my software career.<p>I finally did this by letting go of my perfectionism but I don't want to let go of improvement.<p>Are you a someone who writes on your own blog?

Writing, Blogging, Substack, Mental Health, Perfectionism

49 points by navs 61 days ago | 58 comments

trofaf – super simple live static blog generator in Go (github.com/mna)
trofaf is a super-simple live static blog engine.

Go, Blogging, Open Source

17 points by indigodaddy 66 days ago | 3 comments

And That's a Wrap (amazon.com)
After 20 years, and 3283 posts adding up to 1,577,106 words I am wrapping up my time as the lead blogger on the AWS News Blog.

Amazon, Blogging, News, AWS

5 points by mooreds 66 days ago | 2 comments

Regarding – and, Well, Against – Substack (daringfireball.net)

Substack, Blogging, Content Creation

4 points by everybodyknows 73 days ago | 0 comments

C has its limits. If you know where to look (subethasoftware.com)
Thank you, Bing Copilot (ChatGPT), for giving me another “thing I just learned” to blog about.

Programming, C, Limits, Blogging

16 points by jandeboevrie 74 days ago | 4 comments

When Self–Hosting Fails: The Night My Blog Vanished (bytedrum.com)
It was 1:09 AM on a quiet Friday night when my digital world went dark. In an instant, my carefully crafted blog and homelab setup vanished from the internet, leaving me feeling like I’d built a high–tech sandcastle only to watch the tide wash it away. The culprit? Not a sophisticated cyber attack or a critical bug in my code1, but something far more mundane and frustratingly out of my control: an unannounced ISP outage.

Web Development, Blogging, Self-Hosting

5 points by qsantos 77 days ago | 1 comments

Generating a Blogroll with OPML in Hugo (2022) (brainbaking.com)
Blogrolls have been on my mind lately. It’s a rather fancy word for a more common but far from mundane corner of your website, called a links section. Ever since my first website in 1998—you can marvel at my old junk at the Brain Baking Museum—I’ve had a links section. But for some reason, on the latest revision of this site, it’s been gone for years.

Web Development, Blogging

5 points by speckx 86 days ago | 0 comments