Re:Ask HN: Blog Platform of Choice?
by abhinav22 on Saturday January 02, 2021 @06:10PM
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Org mode rocks :) Yes I would do that approach in most instances, what Medium brings to the table is SEO rankings and an audience.
I know that Medium gets a bad rap for poor quality developer blogs, but honestly I love the writing experience - apart from syntax highlighting - it lets me churn out 2000 word posts with pleasure. But maybe it just suits me well.
Re:Ask HN: Blog Platform of Choice?
by milohax on Sunday January 03, 2021 @07:50PM
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dev.to seems to be a developer-focussed community similar to Medium but without a paywall. They have lots of (mainly younger) developers posting and cross-posting there, and it seems pretty nice as a reader or contributor.
I know that Medium gets a bad rap for poor quality developer blogs, but honestly I love the writing experience - apart from syntax highlighting - it lets me churn out 2000 word posts with pleasure. But maybe it just suits me well.
I usually create a pdf or free summary and host on GitHub if my blog post is good enough to add long term value to the community. Eg: https://github.com/ashok-khanna/common-lisp-by-example
There doesn’t seem to be a Medium equivalent for programming blogs? I would drool over having the style of raywenderlich.com for non iOS / Swift blogs