Hello world!

So, it’s happening.

It's been a few years since I dreamed of blogging about the things I've worked on, mostly to remember them, but I never really decided to take the first step.

This is my step one.

On a more practical level, I tried to reflect and work on what was my biggest blocker and I clearly saw myself giving up on this project before for the same reasons every time:

• I didn’t want to use any CMS to download, setup, learn, customise, deploy, maintain and who knows what else;
• I didn’t want to fiddle with markdown files. I’m a visual person, I need to see what I’m doing when I’m doing it;

So, like every respectful software engineer out there, to actually start I had to build a whole new CMS right? Hell no 😒. Or yes? 🤔

I feel nonsensical psychological pressure even at the thought of doing it. After all, the entire web jokes about developers building their own CMS to write their blogs. I don’t want to happily jump in such a trap, even if I can agree that it could be a nice exercise.

You know what I would have liked? Something like Notion. Something as easy as Notion that leads its content into a simple website.

That was something I felt excited of building. That was a much more enjoyable nicer thing to play with rather than some overcomplicated CMS.

Fast forward few hours of a sunny Sunday…

This content is getting retrieved from a Notion page and shown here for my joy. I can now swiftly draft some content, easily and visually edit it, and have it immediately polished and ready on this blog. That’s the smooth process I was looking for. 😎

Hopefully now I can focus on sharing my experiences rather than dealing with the technicalities of managing content. It makes sense that the first topic would be how I'm using Notion as a CMS for this blog.