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.

  • git [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago
    • Do you actually want to host it at home, or are you OK with a third party hosting it? If third party, do you have a budget?
    • Do you want to host it using fancy 'cloud' tech for the resume clout, or do you not want to care about the infrastructure?
    • Do you prefer using a CMS, an existing static site builder, or do you want to build your own tool? Building your own static site generator is fun, and you can blog about the process while building the blog itself.

    The simplest, zero configuration, set and forget, and free route is to use Zola with a static site host (GitHub/Lab pages, Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, etc.) that deploys via a git push.