This website isn’t even fully up and built yet but I already wanted to write a blog post about how funny it is this is a word press website.
Working our way back, my last website was using a C# standalone webassembly project. This was interesting to me because I had started using a lot of C# at work, so I was hoping it would make developing a website fun. Unfortunately I think that whole technology chain is cool, but overly bloated and conplicated for what I was trying to do, as well as not achieving what I really wanted. I did not realize it at the time but I really did want a dynamic website, because writing a blog post in some hybrid razor language on my desktop before building and pushing to github was not a workflow that encouraged posting a lot, it was a hassle and I did not feel like cleaning up my pages. Immediately wordpress is better in all aspects for this because its built with blog posting in mind, even from mobile(!).
Before that I used hugo to write html pages, and it allowed html reuse through some snippet system (I forgot the proper terminology). This may have actually been nicer if you want a completely free way to host a blog as it comes with themes and a way to insert markdown blog posts as pages. It has the same core issue as the C# website, and if I were to go back to staticslly generated only, I would expore other generators like Jekyll, as everything for web development really is easier done in html/css/js.
Before that it was a manually coded static site also hosted on github pages, this is the most flexible if you want to explore the languages from scratch, and I think it was really worthwhile, but not sustainable, I will be interested in how flexible wordpress is for presenting more raw html and javascript for if I want to showcase old or external web projects.
And to complete the cycle, I do remember my first website was actually hosted on wordpress.com (very different from self hosted which you download from wordpress.org). So how we have come back to where we started…
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