Ask HN: What's the best platform for technical writing in 2022?

• mataroa

  25 187 9.3 Python

  Naked blogging platform

  

• Joplin

  771 42,770 9.9 TypeScript

  Joplin - the secure note taking and to-do app with synchronisation capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• mdBook

  100 16,617 8.7 Rust

  Create book from markdown files. Like Gitbook but implemented in Rust

  

• neuron

  25 1,505 0.0 Haskell

  Future-proof note-taking and publishing based on Zettelkasten (superseded by Emanote: https://github.com/srid/emanote)

• gutenberg

  106 12,645 8.4 Rust

  A fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in. https://www.getzola.org

  

• obsidian-releases

  1,652 7,956 9.9 JavaScript

  Community plugins list, theme list, and releases of Obsidian.

  

• PlutoUI.jl

  7 296 7.1 Julia
  

I realize that, and there may be no rational reason for you to switch to a setup like mine. But, aside from avoiding such things a Wordpress exploits, my approach turned out to have other advantages. Over the years I added to my knowledge and taught myself how to provide things other than static files. Today my readers can use gnuplot in a Jupyter notebook, and interactive Pluto¹ notebooks backed by Julia running on a VPS. No canned solution exists for this, and in fact I had to work with the Pluto developers to iron out some kinks. This is only possible because I have total control over the servers. If you know will only ever want to serve static files, there are simpler options (with potential pitfalls). But those options are also limiting, in case one day you want to do something unusual.

[1] https://github.com/JuliaPluto/PlutoUI.jl

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• hermit

  3 1,104 0.0 HTML

  A minimal & fast Hugo theme for bloggers

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