This is the third (re)launch of my blog site, and hopefully will make enough time this time to pin my thoughts often. I started to write about my experience back in 2010 on blogger.com. I got onto Blogger as I was using Google services a lot. A few years down the line, WordPress appealed as it was easier to write and format, as it offered a better WYSIWYG editor compared to Blogger. Even that seems a long-drawn-out task as I see it now, as you are still left to think about formatting and how your page renders.
This time around, I was looking at a way to write posts in an agnostic way. Research led me to Hugo, which is a static website generator that uses Markdown files as its input. Hence, I joined its bandwagon for two reasons: one, I own what I write, and two, if I come across something better, I can migrate easily.
To set up this blog, I have done some unique things, like writing a custom Hugo theme and hosting AWS infrastructure as code (IaC). It’s been a few months of a journey to reach here, which I enjoyed immensely, and hopefully you, the reader, will come back to this site often to get a piece of my mind :)