Ask HN: Blog writing tools for developer focussed blog?

4 points·codegeek··6 comments

I m working on a product that will be geared towards developers and I want to write articles and blog posts where I could easily embed code snippets etc with syntax highlighting. Any tools that are built for this ? Markdown support huge plus.

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I just made one recently. a minimalist markdown blogging by a single html. very handy to host on github-page, and edit post by github markdown editor.

https://github.com/casualwriter/casual-markdown-blog

syntax highlight is also supported as using casual-markdown.js

https://casualwriter.github.io/casual-markdown/casual-markdo...

hope it fit for your purpose.

Sounds like embedding jupyter notebook(s) on a webpage / blog aka www.medium.com

https://code.visualstudio.com/learn/educators/notebooks

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/datascience/jupyter-noteb...

Other usage notes:

jupyter tutorial : https://jupyterbook.org/en/stable/content/math.html

jupyter notebooks extensions : https://jupyter-contrib-nbextensions.readthedocs.io/en/lates...

markdown & latex in juyyter notebooks : https://towardsdatascience.com/write-markdown-latex-in-the-j...

jupytern code sinippets on medium : https://ai.plainenglish.io/how-to-embed-code-or-jupyter-note...

I’m experimenting with using Hugo (and a few shell scripts) to automatically publish notes tagged as “public” from my personal Obsidian notes repo to a website: https://all64bits.com.

It’s Markdown based, handles syntax highlighting etc and seems promising. I’m using the “Papermod” theme for Hugo

I use Zola [0] to generate static site from markdown and host it via GitHub pages.

[0] https://www.getzola.org/documentation/getting-started/overvi...

Quarto

https://quarto.org/docs/websites/website-blog.html

Write.as is a lightweight, minimalist blogging platform well suited to technical writing as it supports Markdown (including syntax highlighting and tables) and MathJax.

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