The Grand Redesign

Nine years ago I launched this blog to share some thoughts about software development. Most of the time I have been very strict about content that I posted. If it wasn’t tech, I didn’t post it. Over the years my priorities shifted. I even started a new blog to open up a new niche. But in the end I decided to not restrict myself in terms of topics. Let’s see where this leads me to. How it started Back in February 2017, that’s nine freaking years ago, I launched this blog. I just picked some template and some static site generator to get started. The blog was built using Gatsby with some simple theme. The problem with Gatsby With the years I was increasingly frustrated with Gatsby. I wanted a simple blog, nothing too crazy client side stuff. But essentially that was the focus of Gatsby: web workers and lots of JavaScript. When I left day to day web development, I also switched to Hugo . After all the hassle this was a breeze! I picked a new theme that was simple, but less basic and had a