How I Finally Built My Personal Website (After Almost Two Years of Procrastinating)

I purchased the domain evidenceekanem.me and hosting from GoDaddy on the same day in March 2024. By June 21, 2024, I'd paid a designer to create a complete Figma design: light mode, dark mode, every section pixel-perfect down to the Poppins font and that cyan #67F4FF accent color I loved. Then I did absolutely nothing with it for months. If you're a developer who's been "about to build" your personal site for a while now, this post is for you. I'm going to walk you through the entire journey, the tech decisions I made, the engineering problems I solved, and how I finally shipped it. The Backstory I've been a full-stack developer for over seven years, building production systems in C#/.NET, Laravel, WordPress, and Vue.js. I've shipped mobile apps with NativeScript, enterprise dashboards with Vuetify, backend services running on Kubernetes. I've solved complex problems for clients and employers across multiple stacks and platforms. But building something for yourself hits different. Ther