59 stories tagged blogging, newest first.
165 points by textlanes33 | 104 comments
A developer's blog post explaining how replacing Next.js with Hono and using Cloudflare CDN and image transformations got their blog platform to 100 on all Lighthouse scores.
384 points by epestr | 362 comments
Blog post by Alex Wennerberg arguing that rationalist community blog posts are excessively long and that verbosity substitutes for thoroughness.
64 points by birdculture | 38 comments
Dave Rupert blog post reflecting on people he follows announcing departures from social media, AI usage, or the internet entirely, including Salma's retirement post.
117 points by Brajeshwar | 133 comments
A personal blog post about finally adopting the WebP image format after years of using older formats, reviewing its browser support history.
289 points by ilreb | 141 comments
Michael Lynch's Refactoring English article cataloguing common mistakes beginner software bloggers make, such as meandering intros and overreliance on links.
57 points by KomoD | 10 comments
Kevin Cox's blog post listing technical best practices for publishing RSS/Atom feeds for a blog, ordered by importance with rationale.
1899 points by sancho-panza | 1065 comments
A Bear Blog post titled "When did Google get so weird?"; the capture shows only a Cloudflare security verification page.
246 points by pxx | 99 comments
A blog post on the "i hate the future" tech blog arguing that unexplained technology failures have become normalized, opening with a scene from the show President Curtis.
106 points by dimonomid | 33 comments
A personal blog post on Pixel Ambacht listing ten lines of code that hold meaning for the author, whether written, copied, or memorable.
154 points by signa11 | 58 comments
Jeff Atwood's Coding Horror blog post sharing a reader's email received in response to his earlier post "You Can't Vibe Code Love", on helping each other.
26 points by joelberger | 24 comments
Blog post on the typewriter-collection site Dynamically Typed in which the author confesses to building the site with AI assistance.
30 points by caution | 6 comments
A blog post by Drew DeVault discussing the culture and behavior of the Hacker News community.
409 points by tosh | 190 comments
Brad Feld blog post reflecting on Labor Day, turning 61, and a list from his wife Amy about the real luxuries in life.
336 points by somesoftdev | 178 comments
A personal blog post in which a programmer returns after fourteen years to reflect on filling every quiet moment with podcasts, audiobooks, and social media.
653 points by meysamazad | 398 comments
A short personal blog post arguing that AI-generated images on personal blogs make the author distrust the text and discourage reading.
611 points by speckx | 319 comments
Blog post by Elizabeth Tai arguing that Substack writers should maintain their own independent websites rather than relying solely on the platform.
430 points by Curiositry | 124 comments
Jim Nielsen's blog post reflecting on John Gruber's critique of website popups and arguing that blogging can simply be stating the obvious.
408 points by xngbuilds | 235 comments
A blog post by Geir Isene titled "A desktop made for one," about building a personal desktop computing environment tailored to a single user.
355 points by shintoist | 184 comments
A blog post describing the author's motivation and experience moving their Elixir/Phoenix blog from Cloudflare to bunny.net.
331 points by sedev | 173 comments
Daniel Davies' 2004 blog post, the 'D-Squared Digest One Minute MBA', arguing that good ideas do not need lies to gain acceptance, written amid the Iraq War debate, with a 2008 update.
324 points by domysee | 349 comments
David Bushell's blog post responding to peers who say blogging and coding are over due to AI, arguing against losing faith in sharing expertise.
726 points by asukachikaru | 410 comments
Blog post by Merritt K on Other Strangeness urging people and businesses to maintain their own websites rather than relying on social media platforms.
352 points by todsacerdoti | 108 comments
A personal blog post on using CSS lowercase transforms, swapped em dashes, and deliberate misspellings so the writing won't be mistaken for AI-generated text.
578 points by ssiddharth | 228 comments
A personal blog post arguing that AI-written text isn't worth reading, since writing reveals how a person thinks and outsourcing it to an LLM defeats the purpose.
389 points by zdw | 292 comments
Anil Dash blog post recounting the history of Markdown and how it became a ubiquitous text formatting standard across software and AI.
444 points by Mojah | 544 comments
Mattias Geniar's blog post reflecting on how web development felt simpler in the PHP 4 and jQuery era and arguing it has become fun again.
421 points by herbertl | 247 comments
A daily blog post by Nik reflecting on an AI model trained to imitate his writing and arguing that the struggle of writing is the point.
623 points by mtlynch | 124 comments
Michael Lynch's Refactoring English post ranking the most popular personal blogs on Hacker News in 2025 by cumulative upvotes, with a chart.
726 points by g0xA52A2A | 354 comments
An essay by Henry on henry.codes arguing for personal, handmade websites as an alternative to the corporate, platform-dominated web.
980 points by tomjuggler | 778 comments
A Circus Scientist blog post arguing that Google is no longer useful and asking where creators and small businesses should turn next.
651 points by 8organicbits | 365 comments
Blog post by Ploum arguing that online communication tools have been turned into entertainment platforms, eroding genuine communication.
381 points by nafnlj | 163 comments
A personal blog post by James Zhan describing how Google de-indexed his entire Bear Blog a month after he started it, with no apparent reason.
393 points by speckx | 277 comments
A personal blog post on Living Out Loud asking readers about the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for them.
335 points by Kerrick | 299 comments
A personal blog post by Kerrick in which a software developer shares professional confessions and vows to stop self-censoring.
588 points by gnabgib | 353 comments
A blog post from disassociated arguing that personal blogs have made a comeback and asking whether niche, topic-focused blogs should return too.
1121 points by speckx | 500 comments
Personal blog post arguing that publishing AI-generated blog posts is rude to readers and urging people to write in their own words.
510 points by ry8806 | 294 comments
A personal blog post explaining why the author removed the Disqus comment system from his blog, citing its injected ads.
326 points by indigodaddy | 137 comments
A personal blog post describing how the author hosts his blog on a recycled, carrier-locked Google Pixel 5 Android phone used as a low-power server.
531 points by charles_f | 283 comments
A personal blog post on localghost.dev arguing that the author's website is made for human readers, not AI search engines that scrape and repackage content.
598 points by j4mehta | 240 comments
Personal blog essay arguing creators should keep publishing through years of obscurity, since mastery and audience take a long time to build.
332 points by jlundberg | 162 comments
A personal blog post by Carl Öst Wilkens describing requirements and setup for a minimal statically built blog on his own domain.
533 points by rbanffy | 148 comments
A chapter from Michael Lynch's Refactoring English offering advice on writing blog posts that software developers will actually read.
396 points by sharjeelsayed | 113 comments
An interactive leaderboard from Refactoring English ranking personal blog domains by their total Hacker News score, filterable by date range.
429 points by mikece | 243 comments
Ruben Schade blog post arguing that "boring" technology like NetBSD is a mark of maturity and predictability valued by sysadmins, not age.
681 points by alexgiann | 307 comments
A personal blog post from February 2025 arguing for the value of blogging even when few or no people read it.
351 points by doodpants | 221 comments
A humorous blog post by The Bloggess about an AI "Polish" writing feature popping up in her email client and why she doesn't want AI rewriting her words.
381 points by emschwartz | 160 comments
A Bear Blog post in which the author describes advocating for websites to support RSS feeds and urges readers to do the same.
470 points by todsacerdoti | 244 comments
A blog post by Rachel Kroll listing common web page annoyances, such as popups and tracking, that her own site deliberately avoids.
852 points by bryanbraun | 168 comments
Bryan Braun's blog post advising buyers to check a domain name's past history (spam, bad reputation) before purchasing it.
451 points by alraj | 285 comments
Blog post by Loris Cro comparing a complex PHP CMS site with a plain static HTML site, exploring why the simpler option is paradoxically harder for ordinary people.
447 points by lawn | 215 comments
Jonas Hietala's personal blog post reflecting on why he has kept blogging for 15 years and how the blog started.
831 points by fabianholzer | 349 comments
A blog post cataloguing small convenience features the author likes in blogs and personal websites, inspired by Hillel Wayne's language microfeatures article.
317 points by zerojames | 135 comments
A blog post by James' Coffee Blog describing how he made his blog posts viewable as Linux manual (man) pages.
469 points by EthanDBrooks | 118 comments
A blog post on The Write to Roam offering advice on how to write distinctive work that no one else could produce.
706 points by blakewatson | 310 comments
A personal blog post by Blake Watson describing omg.lol, a community web service, as a refuge after leaving Twitter.
597 points by twapi | 149 comments
Addy Osmani blog post arguing that writing about what you learn deepens understanding and reveals gaps in your knowledge.
475 points by hasheddan | 165 comments
Julia Evans blog post sharing tactics she uses to make reader comments on her public writing more useful and less annoying.
856 points by revskill | 1271 comments
An Ask HN thread inviting Hacker News users to share links to their personal blogs, with commenters posting their sites.
396 points by captn3m0 | 131 comments
Blog post by Darek Kay explaining how to style RSS/Atom feeds so browsers render them as readable pages instead of raw XML.