New Year - New Website

Happy New Year all!

So, according to my previous post I was going to shut down my blog post, and move it over to a different Azure subscription, which would end up in some downtime.

But you know what?

F*ck it! It's been over a year since I developed and launched my last blog in Blazor (.NET 6). It was done in a hope to better understand the pros and cons of Blazor. And I did it. I went from "loving" the blazor, to hating it in just 1 month's time. Slow DevEx was all it took for me to absolutely start hating it (comparing it with React).

I thought to myself - I want a blog which:

Doesn't cost 30-40£ to run (Postgresql database is expensive on Azure)
Doesn't take 2-3 seconds to do initial load.
Doesn't require to do a rebuild every single time I am changing something in UI (DevEx)

Anyways...

I decided to go with Next.js blog template, and deploy it on Vercel, because even though creating something from scratch satisfies our ego, deep down we (me and you) know, that reinventing the wheel is evil.

Long story short, in just 1 day, I managed to convert and move all my blog posts into the new site, successfully deploy it and have it up and running under navus.blog domain.

This was such a breeze!

No more terraform.
It's absolutely free.
No need to create my own CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, or anything like that.
Basically, no more DevOps!
And really (like, really) fast DevEx.

And I love it!

This site will change a lot over the next year or two (until I decide to completely scrap it and start from scratch again, lol), but for now - let's see what 2024 will bring to us!