You keep rebuilidng blog systems instead of writing blog!

Yes, I know... so this is my new blog, focused on casual writing in English.

Just like softwares, any blogs can get stale. My main blog is written in Japanese. When I started posting on it, at first only my friends read it so I could write anything. But later I started writing more technical stuffs, the blog's topic got kinda narrowed, and I shifted my feeling and daily whatabout to Twitter. And I changed my job, my métier shifted to Web dev to graphics. I tried to write in the same way as before, but I felt weird friction between what I wanted to write and what the blog had grown into. And life went on, every life shift made my blog more rigid and outdated...

I wanna change this, esp given the current situation of web & socail media, I need to write my feelings more casually.

Architecture

When I was learning French last year, I used to write blogs on Hugo. But this time I wanted to make my blog more versatile, like allowing JS / iframe because I'd write technical articles with live demos.

First I asked Claude for possible options for my demands. He suggested Astro, Next and other SSG frameworks, but I didn't wanna make my blog complicated... I don't wanna be bothered by npm update, I just want a static site, not a SSG with flashy new technology.

Then I let Astra (cuz I had almost unused 1mo subscription) to make up minimal blog setup with Vite. The architecture is like this:

The build script & runtime is quite short, just ~1k line of JS. It also gave me a pretty looking editor page. It has to have GitHub auth so it runs on a Cloudflare Worker, but finally no server is needed.

I'll try posting my daily stuff as often as I can, let's see...