Any tips for hosting a blog? i recently read this speech by deng about the pen being a major tool for exercising leadership and i want to start writing my thoughts to practice and get better.
Easy+free option might be making a static site on github. Basically you write your posts in some easy to write format like markdown and then run a command to generate the HTML from it, then commit the whole thing to a git repository. Look up “static site generator” for various tools to help you do that. The site’ll be hosted on your-username.github.io. Unlimited flexibility as you can tweak the styles and how the generation happens as you want and there’s virtually no limits as long as you’re just posting text and the occasional image. A lot of programmer blogs I’ve seen are run this way but ofc can write about whatever you want on there :)
Making a website is cool, but don’t forget about the most important thing: content! You can start writing now, and save your work in Word/Writer/Notepad/whatever until you’ve found or built a place online to publish it.
My only experience is having a Tumblr, which is in many ways better than the usual big name social medias, but in many ways is just as poisonous in a very subtle and pernicious way.
Personally, I like going from the ground up. Spin up an nginx instance and write some basic html and css. It will teach you a lot about the web and gives you a lot of creative freedom.
