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That's actually a tough question. I haven't found a place yet to put up a development blog. Code snippet are always screwed up or you don't have analytics, etc.

I took the extra mile on my blog and installed Wordpress on my server. I thought I liked it but now, I'm looking for another solution. I have yet to find what I want.

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I've been using Wordpress for a few years, and I don't like it.

I had a blog hosted at MIT, on a server that they have since shut down. For my first few years of using Wordpress, I was pining for the days of my good ol' MIT blog - it was perfect!

Recently I checked out an archive of my MIT blog. Okay, so, it wasn't perfect. In fact, I think in truth Wordpress is superior. Maybe since the MIT blog was so uncustomizable I just made myself happy with it, whereas with Wordpress I can tinker endlessly, striving for some ideal of perfection that I don't even have a clear vision of.

Does this mean that there's a (small, perhaps) market for code development blogs, e.g. that integrate effortlessly with Github, Bitbucket, etc.?

Or does something like that already exist (beyond Gists)?

I actually had this thought too a few days back. I have no data to back my claim yet but there could be.

Good point, I didn't think about code snippet formatting.

If you can live without great code formatting support and you don't mind paying for it, then I really can't recommend Squarespace highly enough.

I fancied blogging, but I already have so many god-damn side projects on the go (my eternal problem is too much started - too little finished) that the last thing I want to do is keep a linux vps and a Wordpress installation up-to-date and configured securely.

With squarespace I think I pay $16 a month (less actually as discount codes are in healthy supply online) instead of $5 for, say, a vps on DigitalOcean, but I get my pick from a set of nice responsive template designs, unlimited traffic (in case I ever write something that gets HN'd) and a drag and drop interface that most of the time exactly meets my needs. They do all the updating of the back end for me and I can just write. I can inject code and other stuff onto the page if I need to, but I've kind of come to the realisation that I don't need most of that bumf anyway.

I did just have a look at the in-post code writing tool out of interest: It has HTML, CSS and Javascript formatting, which isn't much help if you do most of your work in c# like I do, but then I'm sure I'll survive. Their customer service is why I'm so damn enthusiastic about them, so no doubt if I REALLY feel I need it I could just email them and request it.

Reading this back sounds like I work in their marketing department. I promise I don't, I just really think you should check them out.

I can second this, I moved over from WordPress because it was so buggy (add on's didn't always work as promised). No regrets with squarespace - the site looks professional and I don't have to spend any time updating/maintaining it. Of course, this comes at the cost of learning but...

github gists are an ok solution for this if you don't really mind not having total control over color scheme.

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