The best platform for blogging about coding

Paul Stovell

Paul Stovell

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This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.

A question on StackExchange is "What's the best platform for blogging about coding?", to which the accepted answer is, of course: make your own.

This blog was originally written by me, then rewritten, and that rewrite went on to become FunnelWeb. This weekend I rewrote it again, for the third time, using:

One of the concepts I was going for in this rewrite was to make the home page more of a profile and less of a plain old list of posts. I also wanted to make it more likely that I would blog something, as opposed to just Google+'ing it or Tweeting.

So for example, while the home page looks like this for you:

Home page

I see a box to compose posts quickly:

Composing

Is it better than Wordpress/Blogger/all of the other services out there? Probably not. But hopefully you'll see me blogging more frequently.

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