Building My Blog
2025-05-09 | New York City, NY - US
Today I decided to create my personal website
Not that I am anti-social media or anything. But lately I feel that I pass more & more time online... Specially considering that each day that it passes, recommendation algorithms from social media gets more and more sophisticated - Increasing my time doomscrolling online
Why build an website?
I want to figure out a way to share my thoughts and interests, lately the social media landscape has been too fragmented. I feel that managing multiple accounts (Instagram, Linkedin, Facebook, TikTok...) can be a bit overwhelming for me.
Also, I love that with a personal website I can add things as the way as I want, no need to follow a specific layout or rule - Literally, the sky is the limit (as the CSS & my skills permits)
What tech stack is this running?
I've been a Python programmer for the most of my adulthood, considering that it was a non-brainer for me to use Flask as the engine for this application for the sake of the simplicity. I'm also using TailwindCSS to render the front-end of this application.
The blog posts are written in Markdown, which makes it easy to load & write data.
To deploy this website, i'm using Railway as is the easiest way to integrate a CI/CD deployment cycle by linking a GitHub project.
Hopefully I can keep posting these updates, blogging is something that I find really interesting and it might be something that could become an hobby for me, but now let's see how it goes.