I want to make myself a blog as somewhat of a living resume.
This is mainly because my passion for personal projects speaks more than my actual day to day at work and I'd like to document my escapades in an open source way that I could point others to if they wanted to re-create something I did.
I'm not a web guy, I can do basic HTML templates and a flask backend. I'm sure I could manage a django backend with minor CSS but I'm wondering what else is out there. I love finding weird guy blogs, I keep a list of them, and I'd like my own weird guy blog to do weird guy stuff on. I don't want it to look super fancy, but I also want something more than bare HTML on a white background.
I really just don't know what kinds of tools, frameworks, etc are out there and everything points to high level squarespace type all-in-one setups and I like to be more technical than that.
Here's a pretty good curated list of self-hosted blogs (and many other things):
https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
I don't personally self-host a blog so I can't give specific recommendations unfortunately.
What's your familiarity with Docker (or concepts like containerization in general)? If you've got some experience there/are willing to learn a bit it will make it incredibly easy to spin up a container for whichever blog projects look interesting to you and trying them out to see if they fit your desired functionality.
I'm pretty good with docker and a few backend technologies, I'm sure I could churn out the backend logic for a blog in a weekend, its the front end that spooks me. That and authentication to make sure it doesn't get screwed with.
That link is pretty good, I'm gonna go through that. This is why I ask questions, people just have things on tap that would take hours to find myself.
If you don't want to mess with authentication then why not just dispense with the backend entirely and build a blog with jekyll and github? There's many bare HTML on a white background blogs built with it but apparently you can also do more with the presentation if that's what you desire.
Huh that's pretty interesting. I played around with github.io before they ended that. I thought Jekyll was just a CI platform.
I'll look into that!
I also avoid frontend code like the plague so I get it.
Also glad to provide something useful. If you find a project that you like please report back as this is possibly something I'd also do in the future.
Will do, but most likely won't link it to avoid doxing myself. I've been trying to separate out internet presences and its rough when you've had a reddit account for over a decade where you simultaneously post agitprop AND try to contribute to certain communities.
Oh I didn't mean the blog itself, just the technology behind it if you do end up using one of the projects.
Oh absolutely.