[pembrook]

Great stuff, looking forward to your next blog post in 1 year: “How I rebuilt my blog on…”

A fun hobby of mine is Googling “how I built this blog with [next.js/Gatsby/etc etc]” and going to page 10 of the Google results.

It’s just hundreds of developer blogs with no blog posts other than the ones announcing how the blog was built.

[freetonik]

I’ve noticed this a lot, too, and made this drawing as a joke: https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19/

[bewuethr]

I love that graph! So many occurrences of "that's me" or "I know somebody exactly like that".

[rsync]

Oh, you put me on your graph!

"Weird Dude Who Writes Raw HTML"

My most recent example:

https://kozubik.com/items/wago_audio/

[gen220]

Just a small word of unasked-for-advice... consider compressing your images further! Even ignoring bandwidth concerns, a 1.3MB image takes a while to paint :)

[y42]

*scnr:

ooof.. this chart is making my day, not because of it's content, but it's presentation. Apparently it only works if you have very different scales for x and y axis. As you have the same metrics on both of them (number of posts), it only worked if like x axis is from 1 to 10 while y axis is either log or from 1 to 100 or so. Or you choose a differnt metric for the x axis, like "share of posts about blog setups".

[freetonik]

My thoughts exactly! Originally I wanted to also add a 2nd vertical axis on the right to signify "share of posts about blog setups".

[janandonly]

Can I use this image on my blog?

I will off course link to you site. It’s to illustrate a point about my blogspot blog haha…

I’ve been looking to switch over to something else. But I’ve been actively blogging since 2006 and I haven’t found a good enough way and platform to switch over to.

[freetonik]

>I’ve been looking to switch over to something else. But I’ve been actively blogging since 2006 and I haven’t found a good enough way and platform to switch over to.

Would you consider participating in a private beta of https://exotext.com/, a simple blogging platform I'm building? (example blog: https://rakhim.exotext.com/)

If so, please send me an email: hello at rakhim.org

[freetonik]

Of course, go ahead! Please, share a link to your blog, I'm gonna add it to minifeed.net :)

(I'll update my website soon and will make the licensing clearer.)

[janandonly]

My sites/blogs are: https://www.janromme.com, https://www.seriousaboutech.com and https://independentlypoor.com.

This picture was used here:https://www.janromme.com/2025/04/are-there-any-good-blogging...

Thanks a lot. That graph is useful, and a nice shout-out is always good.

[ceautery]

I'm in the "old-ass blogger.com site" category, with posts going back to '05.

[martylamb]

Literally just posted my newly hogoized site that dates back to 2003 THIS MORNING. :)

[realprimoh]

This is hilarious, and so true

[nickjj]

I started with and used Jekyll for almost ~10 years and ~500 posts before switching to Hugo.

I have a 7,000 word blog post on how and why I switched which I didn't publish yet because I wanted to wait 6+ months with Hugo to make sure I ironed out all of the kinks. I guess I'm the anti-case for this one! Maybe I should post this one next week. It's been quite stable.

[nickjj]

Here's the post: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/converting-my-500-page-blog-f...

[ChadMoran]

This reminds me of people who will make an entire YouTube series on crafting the perfect Notion architecture. Only to not actually use it.

[mmsimanga]

I am in a worse group. Changed my blogging platform, wrote the obligatory post detailing why I changed platform and couldn't even get that obligatory post out. I hang my head

[BeetleB]

A bit unfair to the OP, given that he actually does write posts on his blog.

[Lord_Zero]

Unfair in general. Building and hosting a blog is a cool learning experience and worth blogging about to remember and teach others.

[barrenko]

It's our Hello World of sorts.

[netsharc]

I remember someone presenting a development framework and saying something similar to this, "Of course, I used it to build a blogging platform..."

[wolfgang42]

I’ve been through a couple of different tools for my personal blog, and, having seen this trap, every time I did the migration I made sure to write a blog post about something completely unrelated instead. A few years ago I built my own static site generator and I vowed that I would never try to publish it for other people to use, another trap[1] that often springs on enthusiastic developer-blogger types.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21616774

[ingav]

Haha, been there. But this setup’s actually working really well for me. It’s not chasing the "hot new thing," it’s going back to stuff that’s proven and solid.

[devsda]

Haha. I guess discovering & teaching how to do X is more rewarding than doing X. It applies to blogging, PKM and productivity too.

Is there a name for this phenomenon where this actually turns out to be true? Closest I can think of is "During a gold rush, sell shovels".

[sorokod]

or filler posts like this one in the same blog:

https://ingau.me/notes/asymmetric-encryption/

[jasonthorsness]

Is there a support group for this? I have not rebuilt my blog since Feb 21 2024 though I have been sorely tempted :P

[fabianholzer]

There probably should be one, maybe taking turns with the biweekly Authors of custom static site Generators Anonymous meeting

[dredmorbius]

Counterpoint: gwern.