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An impartial guide to blogging as a developer, from setting up your site to SEO & syndication

In the age of LinkedIn profiles, Twitter threads, and Medium blogs, you might wonder: Do I really need my own website? If you're a developer or work in tech, the answer is an enthusiastic yes. In the following lines, I'll explain why I think you should have a website, how I built mine, and some tips for setting up yours, whether you're into static site generators like me or prefer something simpler.

A quick look at the stack behind this blog and walking through the steps that made the magic happen..

I’ve been using Obsidian for all my writing lately, and it’s been a game changer. The local-first model means everything lives as plain text on my machine, and with the Minimal theme, the interface stays clean and distraction-free. My vault lives in iCloud (Dropbox or Google Drive work too), so notes sync seamlessly across devices - I often start drafts on my phone and finish them later on my laptop.

Yesterday, I migrated this blog from WordPress to Hugo. These are the steps I took to do so.

I thoroughly believe that anyone with any kind of passion for anything should have a website. A website is your own platform for sharing your experiences, your struggles, your creations, and your work with anyone and everyone. There are a million different ways to create one. You could build one yourself from scratch, or just pay some third-party service to create and host one for you. Whether you’re super into baking, mountain climbing, video games, or cybersecurity, you should have a website and share your endeavours with the world.

Learn how to optimize Hugo static site redirects using Cloudflare Pages, overcoming limitations of GitHub Pages and Cloudflare Free plan.