BlogPost

This was my attempt at a blogging platform — Tumblr meets Blogger, but personalized. Like Blogger’s ownership with Tumblr’s social feel. No domains, no public anything. Just like its own thing.

I built it with Gatsby, which I thought was clever at the time because: built-in GraphQL. Turns out it was more annoying than useful. Plugins were breaking, docs were outdated, and I was constantly fighting the framework.

It was my first time using GraphQL, and I also tried out monorepos with Lerna (no idea why, but it felt “real dev”).

The whole thing quietly fell apart. Never shipped, never finished. But it was my first full-stack solo build, and that counts for something. I learned that trendy/hypey frameworks age fast, and config hell usually isn’t worth it... unless it’s for Linux. Which is a separate thing entirely...honestly.

Would I do it again? Maybe. But definitely not the same way.