Blogger is one of the oldest blogging platforms still running, and it shows — both in its enduring simplicity and in how little it's changed in years. For a developer deciding where to publish technical content in 2026, it's less a serious contender than a baseline to compare everything else against.
For the wider field of options, see best developer blogging platforms.
What Blogger gets right
It's free, genuinely simple, and supports a custom domain through any registrar. Being a Google product, posts tend to get crawled and indexed reliably. If all you want is a bare-bones place to put words online with no setup at all, Blogger still does that.
Where it costs you
Blogger's SEO and content tooling hasn't meaningfully evolved to match what modern platforms offer by default: no structured Open Graph image handling, dated and limited theming, and no real code-block or syntax-highlighting support for technical writing without hacking in your own CSS. There's no CLI, no API-driven publishing workflow, and no Markdown-first authoring — content is written in Blogger's own rich-text editor.
For a technical audience specifically, the platform reads as dated in a way that can undercut how seriously a post is taken, independent of the writing itself.
Where Blogizi differs
Blogizi is built specifically for developers: Markdown files with frontmatter, code blocks that render properly, and a publish step that's a single CLI command — blogizi publish path/to/post.md. See blogging from your terminal. Sitemaps, canonical URLs, and per-post OG images are generated automatically — see the technical SEO checklist — none of which Blogger offers without significant manual template work.
The actual decision
Pick Blogger if: you want the absolute simplest, free option and technical presentation (code blocks, OG images, modern SEO tooling) genuinely doesn't matter for what you're writing.
Pick Blogizi if: you're writing technical content for a technical audience and want it to look and perform like it, without adopting decade-old tooling to get there.