Building this Website

Blogs have been built since the dawn of the web and are essentially a solved problem. In 2024 the real challenge is choosing which of the many capable technologies to use and not getting hit with analysis paralysis.

Of all the static site generators, I went with Docusaurus because:

• It's super simple to get up and running
• You can write React in the markdown (and I ❤️ ⚛)
• It's pretty by default
• It has Meta's backing and is a healthy project with excellent documentation

I made sure to deploy my Docusaurus to the Github Pages the day I started the project (2 days ago). Why? I was half inspired by this comment on Hacker News about building a compiler 'horizontally', and half concerned that if I didn't push it that night I'd chicken out on the whole blog idea.