When I was younger, building my own blog was fun. It was my side project for learning, trying new tools and frameworks, deploying in different ways. I learnt a lot of things.
But when you have less time, you have to choose. Building a blog is no longer something I want to spend time on, because I have other projects to build. And I left writing aside because maintaining everything around it takes so much time.
There are many platforms that are really good, but in the end I went with a static Astro template, adapted it quickly with Claude Code, and deployed it on Vercel. Done. No servers to manage, no maintenance, just writing.
In my current role I manage many tools, some managed by AWS, others by our team. I have a homelab at home for deploying and trying things, and a server in Hetzner where I build different products. But maintaining my own blog was taking time from all of that, so I stopped writing.
Deploying a side project can be easy, but taking it to production grade requires other things: security, backups, logs… Those things require time, and I want to use that time for building my next product, that I will show you soon.
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