Ask HN: Best place for programmers to blog about code?

Re:Ask HN: Best place for programmers to blog about code? by dudul on Monday November 09, 2015 @02:38PM (#10535263)

I would advocate Github Pages powered by Jekyll. You can use another static site generator, but Jekyll is directly supported by GH pages, so it makes it slightly easier to deploy.

I like not being dependent on a specific platform. If I decide that I don't like Github pages anymore I can just take my static content and push it somewhere else. Also, it makes it very easy to work on my posts offline.

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Re:Ask HN: Best place for programmers to blog about code? by Albright on Monday November 09, 2015 @03:15PM (#10535501)

If you're going to use Jekyll or some other self-hosted-ish service (as opposed to Medium or Tumblr or so on), why not just deploy to your own webspace rather than GitHub Pages?

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Re:Ask HN: Best place for programmers to blog about code? by dudul on Monday November 09, 2015 @03:19PM (#10535521)

Because it's free and there is nothing to do. I just create a repo that is my blog, it kills 2 birds with one stone: I keep the content under source control and it is made available as a website.

If I had another webspace I would have to keep my git repo, and in addition I would have to push the generated content to my host. Effectively, when I commit to my repo it's doing the publish automatically.

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Re:Ask HN: Best place for programmers to blog about code? by jcuga on Monday November 09, 2015 @03:04PM (#10535427)

Thanks! I don't know how I missed this. Will definitely give it a try.

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