No more CMS

Blog building takeaways

I’ve now been through three blog building tutorials:

Contentful was easier to get up & running, Sanity seems like more of a flex if I wanted to impress other developers.

But after working with both of them, I feel like the more practical solution is to simply proceed with a regular ol’ astro app.

I can always connect the CMS later, and doing a content migration might be more valuable experience than starting from scratch.

Plus I’m not sure how much longer any of these companies are going to continue providing a free tier. Their customers are entprise organizations that measure their budgets in tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars, and it may not be too long before the free tier’s cost outweighs it’s benefits. Particularly with increasingly expensive embedded AI.

I’m also partial to trying out another tutorial. Top candidates are:

Nextjs is popular, and while I’ve been working with it for a long time, I had a fairly unique crash course that missed out on a lot of the fundamentals.
Vue makes for some great puns with my last name, which is easily my favorite reason to learn it.
.Net Core (or is it just .Net now?) would be a logical next step, as I have a background with ASP.Net Webforms & MVC.
React. Nextjs is built on React, but I don’t need all the bells & whistles, so making a simple react app might make more sense for a small site like this.