Blog tech

I hate Wordpress. I know it's a "gold standard" for blogging, but I've never liked it. I've always found it clunky and slow. I've also never liked the idea of having to maintain a database for a blog. It's static content. I've seen a variety of static site generators over the years, but I've never been able to find one that I liked. They all felt overly complex as well.

As I was setting up this blog, I came across Docusaurus. It's a static site generator that's built by Facebook. It's designed for documentation sites, but it's also great for blogs. It's simple, fast, and easy to use. It's also built on top of React, which I develop in regularly. I can write my blog posts in Markdown, which is my preferred format, and I can use React components for more non-blog functionality if I want. The barrier to entry is low, I'm just building and deploying it on GitHub Pages. I recommend it.