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Ask HN: How does Paul Graham write and maintain his essays?

1 points| vickypathi | 9 years ago | reply

Does he write a new essay every time and edit the HTML and push it to server? Or he has a web application in place, where he pushes an essay from different sources?

Also I am planning to create my own blog site(list of articles, based on tags, search etc). How should I approach it? I want to have my own blog site like that of Paul graham.

Also suggest the difference between static site generator vs building our own blogging engine for our site?

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[+] gus_massa|9 years ago|reply
Half guessing, half some facts I remember from previous articles that I can't find in 5 minutes using Google ...

He writes the essays, probably in vi.

The site and menu bar is made in RTML that is the internal language of Yahoo stores https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTML