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HTML and CSS are your friends.

When you progress to a point where you want to add interactivity on your site, learn Javascript.

Host your site on the cheapest VPS you can find. It'll give you an excuse to learn Linux and basic sysadmin.

[0] - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML

[1] - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS

[2] - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript

1. Build Go binary

2. rsync binary to VPS

3. Restart systemd unit

Going to copy my comment from a similar thread made a few days ago:

You could use Gurlic. Here's an example. https://gurlic.com/homer/the-iliad-book-i

Themed:

https://gurlic.com/homer/the-iliad-book-i?theme=pudding

https://gurlic.com/homer/the-iliad-book-i?theme=minimal

https://gurlic.com/homer/the-iliad-book-i?theme=naked

Gurlic supports custom domains too, by the way:

https://classics.wtf (this is a publication hosted on gurlic)

https://classics.wtf/the-iliad-book-ii

The main site that I shared with HN about a month ago already has a handful of users, but nobody is actively writing articles. I'm happy to hand out a free .COM domain to anybody who wants to help test Gurlic's article editor.

https://gurlic.com if you want to check out the rest of the site..

It is a bit odd yes, since gurlic is attempting to be a bit of everything. I hope I'm able to clear up some of the oddities with better UI, when I have help.

I'll implement that hamburger menu, thanks!

I can see a lot of spider activity in my logs, but it's only been a month so far. I have not promoted it beyond one HN post and a reddit one.

I don't think I want to do too much tracking, not with third-party analytics anyway. Communities and users can be entirely anonymous, so tracking would be antithetical.

You could use Gurlic. Here's an example.

https://gurlic.com/homer/the-iliad-book-i

Themed:

https://gurlic.com/homer/the-iliad-book-i?theme=pudding

https://gurlic.com/homer/the-iliad-book-i?theme=minimal

https://gurlic.com/homer/the-iliad-book-i?theme=naked

Gurlic supports custom domains too, by the way:

https://classics.wtf (this is a publication hosted on gurlic)

https://classics.wtf/the-iliad-book-ii

The main site that I shared with HN about a month ago already has a handful of users, but nobody is actively writing articles. I'm happy to hand out a free .COM domain to anybody who wants to help test Gurlic's article editor.

https://gurlic.com if you want to check out the rest of the site..

Why not pay Bob his dues and find out?

http://www.subgenius.com/scatalog/membership.htm

Have been using Postmarkapp[0] for over a year. It's been great. Customer service is amazing. I highly recommend using them.

They have non-transactional emails in beta now, which I plan to use soon too.

[0] - http://postmarkapp.com/

I found these Wheaton college lectures[0] by Arthur Holmes a while back and watched through them a couple times. And then picked up books depending on what I liked.

Will Durant's The Story of Philosophy[1] was also useful as a summary and a starting point to go read philosophers that sounded interesting.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yat0ZKduW18&list=PL9GwT4_YRZ...

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEK4A9hrVjQ&list=PLez3PPtnpn...

No, but I've heard really good things about it, and even tried out the demo when it initially came out a few years ago. I was hesitant to change my Vim workflow though.

Thanks for mentioning it, I think I'll take another look at it now. Having a real IDE probably has more benefits once the code grows beyond tens of thousands of LOC.

Decent for writing web backends, APIs, RPC services. The high number of libraries also help. The language is very simple, which is good or bad, depending on who you ask.

Tooling could use a lot of work though. After switching between vim-go, gopls, and a handful of other language server implementations, I've given up on auto-completion, definitions etc altogether. Maybe it's my setup...

Overall, I'm pretty happy with running a fairly big Go app in production. Would I choose Go for my next serious project? Most likely.

Praise Bob!

You could use Gurlic, although it's still being worked on, and I don't promise the polish or feature set of ghost/wordpress/medium.

Here's an example.

https://gurlic.com/homer/the-iliad-book-i

Themed: https://gurlic.com/homer/the-iliad-book-i?theme=pudding https://gurlic.com/homer/the-iliad-book-i?theme=minimal https://gurlic.com/homer/the-iliad-book-i?theme=naked

Gurlic supports custom domains too, by the way: https://classics.wtf/the-iliad-book-ii

Medium used to be nice way back in the day. Paywall/popups aside, the standard or writing has fallen drastically. I don't see how it's possible to fix it

I'm trying to fix some of those things with Gurlic, but it's much more than blogs/publications..

Here's a sample publication on Gurlic, https://classics.wtf

We have communities too. (https://gurlic.com/programming)

Thanks, I am!

Thanks! Yeah, an API is in the works. And design changes too, along with a dark theme.

You're right, it's not something I want to put off till it's too late. Thanks for the advice!

Thanks! https://gurlic.com/gurlic is site-related updates, so I'll post it there. :)

Thanks for the heads up. I'm using Postmark for transactional email. I think this is probably something at their end. I'll open a ticket with them.

Ah yes, those are things I need to think about eventually. Thanks for the advice.

Here it is: https://gurlic.com/create

Also no, your account username is your account username. You choose a slug/username for your community when you create one, it doesn't need another account.

Hey. Yup, it is a bit confusing, I'm taking all the feedback here and making UI/structure changes. And I'll definitely write more in the about page. I'm aware of the broken links too...

I'm guessing you made an anonymous account? Those can only post on communities which allow anonymous posts. Right now, only email-verified accounts can create communities and add domains, only to avoid namespace-squatting and spam really.

Thanks, I'll let you know when I free up the code. :)

I'll take a look at tweaking various design things soon, especially on mobile. Thanks!

Thanks for the feedback!

Thanks! You're right, I think I'll work this into an "introducing" blog post soon.

Thanks. I'll take a look!

Thanks!

I'm not completely sure yet, and haven't given it much thought. But I suppose there will be a limit on the number of communities/publications one can own. There definitely ought to be a mechanism to cut down on power user abuse.

I'm happy to hear thoughts/ideas/advice on this!

Thanks for letting me know!

Ah yes, I should see to that. Maybe move it to the header, or have a manual "load more posts" button instead. Thanks. :)

Thanks!

Users already have feeds at https://gurlic.com/bob/feed, although I didn't complete it I think..

I plan to work on RSS for communities in the coming days!