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15 Clean and Simple Open-Source Blogging Platforms for Your Developer Blog
Your blog should be built with one of these open-source platforms.
So you’ve recently started your learning journey and would like to keep friends and mentors informed of your personal accomplishments, milestones, and your career options. The next step is to choose a blogging platform that fits you.
Many popular blogging platforms are not really a good fit for developers, since they are cluttered with features that you don’t really want or need.
After doing some web search on some common and not-so-commen open-source blogging platforms, I came up with this growing list of blogging platforms for coders of all levels.
1. Jekyll
Jekyll is a static site generator. It creates a website out of your markup files. Many high-traffic sites are built with Jekyll, and it is known to deliver relatively fast and secure websites.
Twitch Con, UN World Statistics, and Netflix Devices are examples of sites built with Jekyll. To get started, the fastest way is to check out existing sites and…
