Own-domain, static-site, RSS, writing-in-public, and digital-garden references for launching a personal blog.
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A friendly launch checklist for a personal blog: a home page, about page, archive, feed, three small posts, and a simple habit for publishing on your own site first.
Community guide to getting a personal site, domain, hosting, pages, syndication, and basic IndieWeb identity pieces.
Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere: a useful framing for keeping the original post under your control.
Official GitHub Docs quickstart for creating a user site at username.github.io and configuring Pages publishing.
Official Astro tutorial unit for adding a blog archive, tag pages, tag index, and RSS feed.
Official Eleventy starter directory, including eleventy-base-blog as a starter for building a blog website.
Practical principles for publishing useful personal writing: honesty, recent learning, past-self explanations, and small posts.
Counterarguments to blockers that stop new bloggers: needing originality, expertise, perfect correctness, popularity, or completeness.
Essay on digital gardens as evolving, linked, personal knowledge spaces rather than only polished reverse-chronological posts.
About page showing a mature personal blog's subscription options, Atom feeds, newsletter framing, and disclosure notes.
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