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A developers journey to blogging

DEV Community: java·Gabriel Szabó·3 days ago
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My (almost) never ending story

I have been a fan of sharing content for a long time. I liked writing down things, share it, make it available. I had several good reasons for this. For once, I forget things. I like writing things down so I don't forget them (which I truly tend to do). I also like telling stories. Also, last but not least, opening a small window into the chaos I call myself.

My issue was however, that somewhere deep inside I was not a fan of of any blogging platforms I tried so far. I briefly used one of the major ones (I'm not going to call names), but then they changed and it got a paid service. Since I'm a big believer in freedom and open source, I quit that blogging platform.

I started my own.

And what a "platform" it was. A simple file hosting on my cloud machine. Static pages hosted by nginx a Linux box. That was my iteration zero. And guess what, it worked. I was happy for a while.

Then came a crucial vacation, a.k.a.…

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