I use HTML directly, with a small custom-made wrapper so all I write is the main content itself, not the head element or the visible footer. Some scripts to build the index page, the tags page, the categories page. Hosted on GitHub, but it would work just as well on my own domain. I made some stylesheets for fun, the default is deliberately minimalistic.

I've found I have so few readers I don't really need a comment section, so I've not even implemented one.

I use a Static Site Generator (SSG) regularly.

You will have wysiwyg when you develop locally.

Here's an overview over some tools: http://staticgen.com/

I use a rich text editor.

I still use Blogger. I'm amazed it hasn't been killed yet.

I use Nikola, a static site generator written in Python (which I don't particularly like as a language but the app does what I want almost exactly the way I want it to.)

I write new posts in Sublime Text as Markdown (I also use my blog to archive Mastodon posts which go in a different folder than my blog posts) and then it does its thing and generates an HTML site which I git push to my server. I use a plugin to integrate comments from my Mastodon account.

It doesn't have a wysiwyg editor per se but it does have a local server with hot loading so I can see how it would look.

Currently, Markdown files + Vuepress. Finding/improving your tech stack and workflow for your blog is part of the fun!

I use Astro, so Markdown; organised by year-month folder.

I use Astro. It has all the features that I need.

> I wanted to ask what the writing and hosting process is like for people who have a personal website and blog—do you just write markdown and then use a renderer?

Most editors have Markdown preview. There's also products like Ghost which are pretty good