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Why 60% of WordPress Sites Never Get Updated After Launch

According to W3Techs, WordPress powers roughly 43% of all websites. That is hundreds of millions of sites. But a massive chunk of...

Distribution Has a Problem And No One Brings It Up

I have 61 post drafts queued up. 91 reply drafts. 18 finished blog posts, voice-matched and slop-filtered, ready to go. The distri...

How My Blog Posts Generate Their Own Images

I built a system where blog posts create their own visual identity from content hashes using PHP and SVG. The result is determinis...

Important Lessons Every Beginner Writer Should Know

Becoming a writer is easy, but becoming serious about your writing is a whole lot harder and more complex. Here are some important...

I Migrated My Blog From Jekyll to Hugo - Or At Least, I Almost Did

Jekyll is a Ruby-based static site generator. Hugo builds upon Go and touts itself as "amazingly fast" Jekyll doesn't support Ruby...

We Asked 14 Tech Bloggers Why They Write. Here's What They Said

14 expert tech bloggers share why they started writing and why they continue

I Made It Onto the Front Page of Hacker News and My Server Didn't Crash At All:...

How I Built a Simple MDX Blog in Next.js and why I chose native mdx over Content...

Next.js’s official MDX integration lets you import .mdx as components and export metadata alongside content. I used @next/mdx wit...

Jeff Atwood on Writing, Optimism, and Fixing the Internet

Coding Horror/Stack Overflow/Discourse creator Jeff Atwood shares his blogging experiences and tips.