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9 points freemanjiang | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.193s | 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 ◴[] 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. wannabebarista ◴[] No.46281680[source]
I tried several on this list a few years ago and found Jekyll the most flexible/enjoyable for my use case. It's a bit dated though.