Ask HN: Best, free (or cheap) blog service for coders?

Re:Ask HN: Best, free (or cheap) blog service for coders? by Furkanzmc on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @09:24PM (#11913373)

I've been using Jekyll with GitHub Pages. I'm not a Web developer so it took me a while to customize a template to my needs. Pros of using Jekyll is 1. You get complete control over your blog 2. You blog like you are coding 3. Tons of free templates to choose from 4. Free hosting with the ability to use your own custom domain

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Re:Ask HN: Best, free (or cheap) blog service for coders? by ljw1001 on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @11:35PM (#11913754)

Thanks. I may end up doing that, but I code for work and I code for fun and I blog about coding so I would really like to have something that 'just works'.

I should probably just upgrade to the pro version of Wordpress. It's just that $100/year seems like a lot for a blog nobody reads ;)

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Re:Ask HN: Best, free (or cheap) blog service for coders? by monsk on Thursday June 16, 2016 @10:28AM (#11916322)

I also use Jekyll/GH-pages, and it really 'just works'. Usually the only thing I spent time on was cosmetics, but even out of the box it doesn't look bad, plus there are (as mentioned before) lots of free templates.

I know a lot of people use Medium as well, but I'm not sure how it handles syntax highlighting.

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