Friday, January 22, 2016

New blogging platform

I've been using blogger for a long time, and it's okay, but it's really, really annoying when I try to post code snippets. Manually formatting the text as courier and wishing I could make a block around it... it's just too much work. I want to just write, not have to write HTML or install plugins which don't work or anything like that. So, I looked at a bunch of different blogging platforms:


  • Wordpress
    Several folks suggested this, several others suggested against it because their security is... not great. I tried it, and found it to be really annoying, and wound up ragequitting before I even made a post.
  • Codrspace
    This looked really good, handles code blocks really easily, but it still looks kinda early. I couldn't find any table of contents for my posts, and didn't see any way to make comments. Close, but not quite there.
  • Medium
    Brought to you by the same folks who did Instagram. Tried it out, and it looks very social media-y, but it hits all the things I want - simple UI, code blocks, drag-and-drop for images, comments, all the stuff. It's maybe not perfect, but it's perfect enough.
So, it looks like any new posts will be going over here:

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