Ask HN: Do you blog under your own domain? How?
I feel you as far as centralization is concerned.<p>Personally I&#x27;ve been meaning to start writing for some time now but I keep kicking the can down the road for multiple reasons.<p>Problem 1: Lack of time, other more important things that I need to take care of and basically life in general - I&#x27;ve had serious time constraints during the last few years. Which I have been able to considerably improve lately. Which is completely unrelated to the lockdown and has more to do with me figuring out how to organize everything and catch up. And ultimately I&#x27;ve been looking into starting again lately.<p>Problem 2: The absence of a decent platform: I really don&#x27;t want to deal with maintaining a database or a server for the purpose of serving text and images.<p>Problem 3: sphinx, hugo, and all other static site generators, while great, are not self-contained and a huge overkill imo for a personal site&#x2F;blog. Meaning that managing them on the go is still painful - I&#x27;d have to setup a ci&#x2F;cd to manage them, which I feel is the same as having a database and a server somewhere.<p>So I tried to somewhat fix problem 2 and 3 and built something from scratch myself - a small dartlang-based site(as I&#x27;ve stated a million times, i abhor javascript with a passion and just seeing it makes me  vomit), which operates with either html or markdown pages, simple href and routing. The point is that at any given time I can unlock my phone, ssh into any of my servers, add a .md file, add a link, commit and push and forget about it.<p>I&#x27;ve been meaning to open-soruce the whole thing and if someone&#x27;s interested they can use it. All in all, the end result is a transpiled js file from dart, which is ~90kb gzipped, an index.html and a yml file which allows you to customize stuff.<p>If anyone is interested, you can have a look at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;axegon.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;axegon.com</a>.