Why I stopped developing my own blog

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. I've chosen Ghost because I like their platform, it's open source so I can self-host whenever I want, and it has all the things I may need.

One part of me is sad about not self-hosting it. But self-hosting everything is time consuming and in life you have to prioritize. I want to just write and show people the things I build, how I built them, and what I discover in the process.

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. So remember to subscribe.