It all started with articles like Bring back personal blogging by Monique Judge for The Verge or the Bring Back Blogging project by Ash Huang and Ryan Putnam, who encouraged us all to get into the habit and publish at least three blog posts until the end of January 2023.

Get a domain name, something that is you. You can buy through web hosting services, from Cloudflare, Iwantmyname, Namecheap, or any of the other actors out there.

Choose a blogging platform. WordPress is the big one, open-source and all, so that’s probably the right choice for most of you. If you don’t want the hassle with web hosting and security updates, go with WordPress.com or any of the other managed solutions out there. It’s often free to start, but pointing your domain name (see 1) there is key, and that’ll probably cost you a bit. Other options are Ghost, Micro.blog, Blot, and so many more.