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Ask HN: Bloggers, how do you manage your content?

9 points freemanjiang | 2 comments | 15 Dec 25 20:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.446s | source

I would like to start a personal blog. I think Substack is a good option, but I would like more control over styling (potentially custom components) and want to host the blog on my own website.

I wanted to ask what the writing and hosting process is like for people who have a personal website and blog—do you just write markdown and then use a renderer?

I would like a kind of wysiwyg editor to see exactly how the content will appear once loaded. The issue with writing in a separate editor is that the line breaks, line lengths, font, etc. never appear how they will actually look. Thanks!

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midzer ◴[15 Dec 25 20:29 UTC] No.46280140[source]▶
I use a Static Site Generator (SSG) regularly.

You will have wysiwyg when you develop locally.

Here's an overview over some tools: http://staticgen.com/

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1. freemanjiang ◴[15 Dec 25 21:04 UTC] No.46280617[source]▶
I see, yeah I use Next.js pretty regularly, you mean on hot reload then?

You still need to write your content as Markdown or something else, right? I feel the editors of Substack give some nice features like shortcuts for bold, italics. What do you do about that?

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2. konradb ◴[17 Dec 25 10:22 UTC] No.46300216[source]▶
You can use nextjs to statically generate a whole site, or incrementally regenerate it for slowly changing parts.