I use WordPress, a huge PHP blob with a database, for my self-hosted blog. I somewhat agree with the parent and sister comments in that, as a programmer, the way these things work irks me out.<p>However, I don&#x27;t agree with the apparently widespread conclusion that it follows, from this sentiment, that not publishing is better than publishing using a less-than-lovely platform. I also don&#x27;t agree with the widespread corollary, &quot;build your own blog&quot;, when as a result you get less features than the irksome WP would give you (a common omission is support for comments - I got some amazing comments over the years, if you think it&#x27;s not worth having this feature, I think I see where you&#x27;re coming from, and I think you should reconsider.)<p>I treat blogging software as I treat any other - I dislike most programs that I run, but I often still choose to run them because the result is worth it. I can&#x27;t see how &quot;it&#x27;s not worth&quot; to run PHP+DB in order to be able to publish your thoughts. This is not to say that, given today&#x27;s alternatives, WP or similar should be chosen over those alternatives, just that not using <i>any</i> of the available options because they&#x27;re all too irksome feels over the top.