Published at May 4, 2019 · 4 min read
For some time now I wanted to really start with a new site/blog. With all the stuff that happened since 2018 I felt the need to write stuff down and to be more open then before. So to actually do that, I started this blog.
Being a software developer I wanted to create it myself of cource. So the first thing to do was to search for software or a framework to create the site in. One of the most common pieces of software to create a site or blog is Wordpress. And being the opiniated developer that I am, I quite dislike Wordpress. Why? Well, creating a good site in Wordpress can be harder then you might think. Wordpress itself simply does not have the functionality you actually need to get most things done. So you need to install 3rd party plugins to get the functionality that you need or create your own. Since my coding is mostly done in Java and Wordpress is PHP I do not like to code my own and it would take too much time to get a site up and running. Plugins are not always of the same quality and using more and more plugins will make Wordpress slow so even a lot of simple / small sites needs things like a caching plugin or even a CDN to get a speedy website.
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