Rabbithole of wanting to switch

I still remember when WordPress used to be all the rage. Those were the days as some would put it. The overall thought around having a website or a blog has changed a lot since then.

Having gone through this rite of passage of

Blogger --> Wordpress --> CSS/HTML hosted static site(s) --> Hugo on Firebase --> ... this?

Why have your own website in the first place? What’s the intrinsic value here?

I’m a big believer in an evidence of impact style of doing things. Having an outlet to comprehensively document, and reflect back like one would with a compendium, is something pretty neat.

And then there’s the tighter control over the content, layout and overall end result when I am managing the entire end-to-end deployment. There’s something about the utility of tinkering which has always been a big draw. Not to say this is anything too drastic (simple Astro template with minor changes and hosted on Vercel)

What are you going to write about?

Mostly about things I’m experiementing with on my machine, learning recently or general observations over time. No specific theme per say.