Process Over Technology: Starting With the Blog Itself

I have been thinking about starting a blog for a while. Not because the world needs another tech blog, but because I needed a place to think out loud about something I keep coming back to: process matters more than technology. AI has changed the economics of rigorous engineering. Practices that used to be too expensive or too slow for most teams, things like executable specifications, mutation testing, and formal verification layers, are now economically viable. The tooling is free. The compute is cheap. The only thing standing in the way is how we think about building software. So when I finally sat down to build this blog, I decided to treat it the way I believe all software should be built. Not as a weekend side project where I pick a static site generator and start writing, but as a properly managed effort with a defined process, infrastructure as code, a publishing pipeline, and security defaults baked in from the start. This post is the story of that build. Not a tutorial. Just t