Creating Your Own Blog
My personal opinion is:
VPS+Domain WordPress and other blogging frameworks. This way, you have control over the website address and backend environment.
If you don’t want to spend money, you can rely on platforms like GAE or SAE.
Another simple option is to host it on Github. Here is a rough process:
- Create a new Repository on Github, xxx.github.com
- Use static blog generation tools like Jekyll or Hexo
- That’s it.
Yes, it’s that simple, and there are plenty of online tutorials available, so I won’t repeat them here.
I personally use Hexo, and it is hosted here.
Compared to Jekyll, I find Hexo to be simpler.
Now, onto something unrelated:
Do you remember when we were in primary school and had to write compositions every day? It was truly torturous.
Every day, we would have to write (chao) homework before and after school. We didn’t have any deep insights, and we had to write one composition per day. Now, I can barely come up with something worth recording in a week.
What could we do? We could only copy model essays.
Unfortunately, there was no theoretical guidance back then, and my copying skills were not perfect. After copying everything from a book called “Complete Collection of Model Essays for Elementary Students,” I had nothing left to copy. Helplessly, I turned to my Chinese textbook.
However, starting something new from scratch is never easy. Isn’t it said that “if you mess with the son of the God of Wealth, you’re just asking for trouble”? Naturally, I was caught.
Then, my third-grade Chinese teacher, who was hailed as the engineer of the human soul, slapped me hard on the head in front of the whole class, using my diary as evidence.
Oh (wocao), did he have to be so harsh? It was like killing a chicken to scare the monkeys.
At the time, I endured silently and quietly improved my skills. After all, the college entrance examination still favored standardized essays. For the sake of the future, one must not be overly impulsive. (Okay, I was naive back then, thinking that it was normal for teachers to hit students, just like how I used to think it was normal for fathers to hit their sons a few years ago.)
Fortunately, in college, I finally didn’t have to write those disgusting things anymore.
In my freshman year, one of my roommates criticized my bland personal space and then decorated his own with numerous Flash elements, making it so slow that nobody could open it.
Later, I discovered the blogging function and casually wrote about things related to school. Some classmates left comments, which made me quite happy, so I continued writing.
Over a year later, I finally found out that this thing was called a “blog”.
Afterwards, I moved all programming-related content to CSDN. Seeing that “thousand miles away” badge in the bottom left corner, I silently left.
Near graduation, while searching for something, I came across an article written by someone called “a ya.” It seemed familiar, so I looked at the visitor count, which was over 10,000. It even had rankings. I wondered who this person was, and upon closer inspection, it turned out to be me…
After that, I just wanted to find a place where no one knew me and record some things.
Translated by gpt-3.5-turbo