Engineers who have a personal website/blog, what are you using to host/generate it?

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  • blog

    The project powering my blog which might exist but knowing blogs, probably not for long. (by conrs)

    I host it entirely on Github via Github Pages and Jekyll. https://github.com/conrs/blog

  • Docusaurus

    Easy to maintain open source documentation websites.

    I use docusaurus It lets you write markdown files(also supports react) and builds a static site out of it.

  • SurveyJS

    A Non-Cloud Alternative to Google Forms that has it all.. SurveyJS JavaScript libraries allow you to easily set up a robust form management system fully integrated into your IT infrastructure where users can create and edit multiple dynamic JSON-based forms in a no-code form builder. Learn more now.

  • elijasorensendotcom

    www.elijasorensen.com https://github.com/WhiskeyTuesday/elijasorensendotcom

  • eleventy 🕚⚡️

    A simpler site generator. Transforms a directory of templates (of varying types) into HTML.

    I use 11ty (a static site generator) to generate it. The template source is nunjucks and the blog content is markdown. Everything is stored in a public GitHub repo and built and deployed on Netlify on push to `main`.

  • decap-cms

    A Git-based CMS for Static Site Generators

    My wife has a similar setup for her blog, 11ty for generation. But, she uses Netlify CMS (now Decap CMS). It's a CMS for static sites that, basically, commits from an editor in an admin section of your site back to your git repository.

  • hugo-PaperMod

    A fast, clean, responsive Hugo theme.

    I use Hugo with the papermod theme

  • Hugo

    The world’s fastest framework for building websites.

    Hugo to generate static pages.

  • Amplication

    Amplication: open-source Node.js backend code generator. An open-source platform that helps developers build backends without spending time on boilerplate & repetitive coding. Including production-ready GraphQL & REST APIs, DB schema, DTOs, filtering, pagination, RBAC, & more.

  • crystal

    The Crystal Programming Language

    Over the years, I’ve gone from Time Warner’s Road Runner, to Tumblr, to GitHub Pages, to Godaddy hosted WordPress. Though, after Godaddy messed up a migration, I switched to self-hosting on Heroku. I wrote my blog engine using Crystal. Reference: ejstembler.com

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