I am currently working on my portfolio as well. But already have a blog and website - unsungnovelty.org/. While it looks bare bones now. It will be completely different in a month or so. Big things planned!
What I have in mind right now is about creating my blog inside this website, like for example nicholascosta.dev/blog
I've read that the most difficult part is not to host a website, but to keep it up-to-date. In fact, out of the 37 people I follow and have websites, ~70% of them have not updated their websites for a minimum of almost an year or more! So for the time being, I will keep an eye on making the best out of this website by writing about technology + human intersection and self documenting the things I've learnt!
I wrote this in 2019. By I am sure it has turned to >90% now. Most domains have expired and the rest is dormant. I wrote about this in my post - Why I host a website?. So keep this in mind.
Tech stack
I am not sure about your plans with the website. But if you are thinking long term blogging, personal website/portfolio, I recommend a static site generator. It will make your life easy by providing a lot of the features you want. Over a period of time, you need a tech stack that will not be rapidly changing. You won't be working on it regularly. Trust me.
Why am I telling this?
I love folks who are self hosting and want you around hosting your website for a long time! :).
Things can go slow and fast at the same time. Keeping it going is important. I have only published 10 posts so far in the 3 years. But It has been picking up speed. I partially blame this on the pandemic. But the rest is still on me. I have lot more planned for my website (For example I have avoided tech posts and my projects I have worked for multiple reasons for so long in my website. I am going to add a ton from the backlog and new stuff as well.)
I will be following your journey. All the best and congrats! Hope this helps.:)
PS: On the color palette, I agree with you. I don't feel 100% on it as well.
I'm Nicholas, a Front-end Web developer that's been on that journey for more than a year now. I love coffee and learning new things, I blog here about anything that comes to my mind, but mainly coding
I'm excited to see your changes on your website, if you can, keep me up to date =D. I've never used any static site generators, I'm currently on my second month of React, the Portfolio is the main thing I wanted to get done, the blog is a project I have in mind and I'm trying to do it from scratch since I'm relatively new to React, and yes, I think it'll be a long term blogging. The color palette has been hard, the current one is an idea from my brother, about making the website dark-themed since most people nowadays use more dark themes, but I'm still thinking about other possibilities and searching for it. Hope to see you more on my posts and I'll keep looking at your website for the newer updates, stay cool =D.
Whatever works for you. Learning on your own and tending to your needs is important.
I think it'll be a long term blogging.
Great! Let me know if you setup an RSS feed. I would love to subscribe to your blog posts.
The color palette has been hard, the current one is an idea from my brother, about making the website dark-themed since most people nowadays use more dark themes, but I'm still thinking about other possibilities and searching for it.
I am on the other side. I like light themes. It is actually good for your eyes. Depending on people, dark mode can increase eye strain - Dark mode isn't as good for your eyes as you believe. So don't just follow trends ;)
Hope to see you more on my posts and I'll keep looking at your website for the newer updates, stay cool =D.
Thanks! Vice versa. I will be following your journey as well!
I'm Nicholas, a Front-end Web developer that's been on that journey for more than a year now. I love coffee and learning new things, I blog here about anything that comes to my mind, but mainly coding
Great! Let me know if you setup an RSS feed. I would love to subscribe to your blog posts.
I'm not sure what an RSS feed is exactly, but I think it's a kind of subscription to receive notifications of new posts, if that's correct, I'm surely planning on that, but I think that the blog will take a while to be deployed, but I'll keep that in mind.
I am on the other side. I like light themes. It is actually good for your eyes. Depending on people, dark mode can increase eye strain - Dark mode isn't as good for your eyes as you believe. So don't just follow trends ;)
I've just read this article you mentioned, and I really thought all phones would get a longer battery life just by using the dark theme and eye strain would be always decreased. I'll keep that in mind when I come up with the new theme for my website, thanks for your help.
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I am currently working on my portfolio as well. But already have a blog and website - unsungnovelty.org/. While it looks bare bones now. It will be completely different in a month or so. Big things planned!
I've read that the most difficult part is not to host a website, but to keep it up-to-date. In fact, out of the 37 people I follow and have websites, ~70% of them have not updated their websites for a minimum of almost an year or more! So for the time being, I will keep an eye on making the best out of this website by writing about technology + human intersection and self documenting the things I've learnt!
I wrote this in 2019. By I am sure it has turned to >90% now. Most domains have expired and the rest is dormant. I wrote about this in my post - Why I host a website?. So keep this in mind.
Tech stack
I am not sure about your plans with the website. But if you are thinking long term blogging, personal website/portfolio, I recommend a static site generator. It will make your life easy by providing a lot of the features you want. Over a period of time, you need a tech stack that will not be rapidly changing. You won't be working on it regularly. Trust me.
Why am I telling this?
I love folks who are self hosting and want you around hosting your website for a long time! :).
Things can go slow and fast at the same time. Keeping it going is important. I have only published 10 posts so far in the 3 years. But It has been picking up speed. I partially blame this on the pandemic. But the rest is still on me. I have lot more planned for my website (For example I have avoided tech posts and my projects I have worked for multiple reasons for so long in my website. I am going to add a ton from the backlog and new stuff as well.)
I will be following your journey. All the best and congrats! Hope this helps.:)
PS: On the color palette, I agree with you. I don't feel 100% on it as well.
I'm excited to see your changes on your website, if you can, keep me up to date =D. I've never used any static site generators, I'm currently on my second month of React, the Portfolio is the main thing I wanted to get done, the blog is a project I have in mind and I'm trying to do it from scratch since I'm relatively new to React, and yes, I think it'll be a long term blogging. The color palette has been hard, the current one is an idea from my brother, about making the website dark-themed since most people nowadays use more dark themes, but I'm still thinking about other possibilities and searching for it. Hope to see you more on my posts and I'll keep looking at your website for the newer updates, stay cool =D.
Whatever works for you. Learning on your own and tending to your needs is important.
Great! Let me know if you setup an RSS feed. I would love to subscribe to your blog posts.
I am on the other side. I like light themes. It is actually good for your eyes. Depending on people, dark mode can increase eye strain - Dark mode isn't as good for your eyes as you believe. So don't just follow trends ;)
Thanks! Vice versa. I will be following your journey as well!
I'm not sure what an RSS feed is exactly, but I think it's a kind of subscription to receive notifications of new posts, if that's correct, I'm surely planning on that, but I think that the blog will take a while to be deployed, but I'll keep that in mind.
I've just read this article you mentioned, and I really thought all phones would get a longer battery life just by using the dark theme and eye strain would be always decreased. I'll keep that in mind when I come up with the new theme for my website, thanks for your help.