Why Your Own Blog?

This is the third blog that I’m running as a computer professional. :D (Hope this will be the last one. Migrations are not that smooth). Let me briefly explain how I ended up here. First, I started a blog on Blogspot back in 2017, and It was cool. It was (http://sudeepanadeeshan.blogspot.com/. I was not happy with the way that blog look. That time I got to know about Wordpress. So I planned to move to Wordpress, but this poor student did not have enough money (or wasn’t willing to pay pocket money to some hosting company). Obviously, I checked for free services. Finally, I came across 000webhosting. Excellent, Cpanel hosting service with a free Tier. I jumped in. Searched for hundreds of free appropriate themes and finally satisfied with Me from themehall.

I customized the theme in for my requirement. Added tweeter handle, coding plugins, blah blah. The blog was totally fine. You can check it from web.archive.org. Everything was fine until 000webhost suddenly decided to delete my website from there servers without keeping ANY BACKUPS! I even tried to pay for the past months and get the site back. NOTHING WORKED! Actually, I should not blame them for not keeping the backups as it is my duty to baking up my own website (but come on, you should keep something for the customers!). So that’s how I said goodbye to Wordpress.

So I wanted to develop my blog again. But I was not particularly eager to use any blogging platforms like Medium (As I do know something about coding ;) ). I did some research about the available blogging platforms for coders and heard about Hugo. Hugo has several themes and widgets. I found Academic theme very attractive among them.

Academic has been released under the MIT license. George Cushen lists key features of Academic as follows,

• Page builder - Create anything with widgets and elements
• Edit any type of content - Blog posts, publications, talks, slides, projects, and more!
• Create content in Markdown, Jupyter, or RStudio
• Plugin System - Fully customizable color and font themes
• Display Code and Math - Code highlighting and LaTeX math supported
• Integrations - Google Analytics, Disqus commenting, Maps, Contact Forms, and more!
• Beautiful Site - Simple and refreshing one page design
• Industry-Leading SEO - Help get your website found on search engines and social media
• Media Galleries - Display your images and videos with captions in a customizable gallery
• Mobile Friendly - Look amazing on every screen with a mobile friendly version of your site
• Multi-language - 15+ language packs including English, 中文, and Português
• Multi-user - Each author gets their own profile page
• Privacy Pack - Assists with GDPR
• Stand Out - Bring your site to life with animation, parallax backgrounds, and scroll effects
• One-Click Deployment - No servers. No databases. Only files.