A blog about why I built my own technical blog.
Why I Built My Own Technical Blog Website
I wanted a place to write about software engineering, projects I’m building, and things I learn along the way.
There are plenty of existing blogging platforms, but building my own gave me something those platforms couldn’t: complete control.
Why Build It Myself?
The main reasons were pretty simple:
The complete journey of building a self-hosted developer blog with Astro + GitHub Pages: tech selection, architecture design, a…
Full breakdown of building a personal website from scratch: tech stack decisions, architecture trade-offs, deployment pipeline,…
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This article was originally published on hawksley.dev. I've owned the domain name hawksley.dev for a...
