Wordpress what else

After 15 years spent on WordPress, Mr. Clooney if he were me would probably have said, “WordPress, what else?” for this new website. I still remember my first two bare-metal servers with Debian, NGINX and MySQL. I thought it was unnecessary to build my new website on a CMS that the easy path was to grab decent software, one or two VPSs, cook it all together with some nerd commands, and voilà: all done! Not the case this time!

The needs

the new website should be:

• simple and effective like posting and reading x.com but without lenght limits or media constrain
• blazing fast and compatible across all platforms
• super easy to maintain
• able to show all posts through the home page
• able to support a versatile choice of typography and post types, with or without media
• able to let me easily create posts with or without media or simply share an URL
• simple for me to maintain server-side as I don’t want to spend full time on server administration (nice to have)

The result

My old friend Bootstrap came to mind, but after a weekend spent rethinking everything, I decided to go with Astro and I’ll never look back!