Welcome to the new more streamlined blog.

This blog has been around since 2003, from being on blogger, to various custom builds, to wordpress, to jekyll, to ghost, to wordpress...

It collected a lot of posts, and as I moved it to a new headless setup of Strapi and Remix, I decided to remove any post older than 2018 (and some more recent but less relevent as well).

In the end, this blog went from having over 600 posts, to a little less than 100, which still required some editing to fit with the new setup.

The result is a new light weight, more streamlined blog that I am happy with.

I've been using Strapi as a headless CMS with Next.js as the static site on several projects for a while, so it made sense to finally get this site moved over as well.

There was no real reason for choosing Remix over Next.js, both are great frameworks, but I decided to go with Remix in this case to try something different and I like it. Kent C. Dodds has a great post on why he loves Remix, that is worth a read but this summarizes it nicely:

I love Remix because it enables me to build amazing user experiences and still be happy with the code I had to write to get there.

Currently it’s hosted on Vercel, but I am considering moving the hosting of the frontend to fly.io at some point, just not sure when exactly, and it does run beautifully on Vercel. But one of the things I like about Remix has been that it's easy to switch runtimes to host on various platforms like Vercel, Fly, Netlify, Deno, Cloudflare Workers or almost anywhere.

I'll post a more detailed post shortly about how I built this blog and the wordpress to Strapi migration for anyone interested.