I decided to start the feared BlenderGuru donut tutorial, and I realized, what’s the point of going through all of this trouble to make a donut if I can’t brag about it to people on the internet?

So I have a blog now. This site used to be a create-react-app mess, but I migrated to NextJS and now it’s a much shinier mess. It is so much easier to perform dynamic build-time tasks with getStaticProps and getStaticPaths so it wouldn't feel like pulling teeth to get a comfortable blog setup like it would have been with CRA.

To accomplish this, I referenced the NextJS blog starter. When my website is built I have it set to open the _posts directory in my git repo and collect all of the blog posts from there. It then converts all of these posts to html using remark and passes the html as a prop to each blog post page. Another thing about Next, is that routing is so much easier. Instead of fiddling with react-router component-based routing, everything is file based, which means to add a new page you can just create a new jsx file, and you don't have to have some manifest of all of your routes. Dynamic routing is just as easy, because you can just denote a dynamic path using [slug] and Next automatically will recognize it as a dynamic path. Haha, slug 🐌.

Anyway, I'll probably use this blog for a bunch of stuff. I'm definitely going to post my donut once I finish it. There will also probably be a bunch of random hobby-related stuff like cooking and board games. And maybe some programming tutorials if I feel like there isn't a good tutorial for something that I do.

Stay tuned!