Welcome traveler of the world wide web and welcome to my new website! If you have been here before, then you might have noticed that I changed a lot and reduced the design to a minimum. Let me give you a quick tour on what was changed and why 😁

Vuepress instead of a CMS

As I have already a lot of experience in using content management systems as Modx (opens new window), WordPress (opens new window) and a couple of self built ones, based on Laravel (opens new window) and some admin panel like Nova (opens new window), Backpack (opens new window) and (my new favorite 🌟) Voyager (opens new window), I decided to go with something more simple this time: VuePress (opens new window).

Vue

Doing something in the frontend again turned out to be a lot of fun. Although I have spent most of the time playing with the mechanics of vue and vuepress and did not so much of actual design - as you can clearly see 😉

Markdown

Because of the nature of vuepress every article I write from now on will be saved as a markdown file - what I love! 😍 Simply because now everything is part of the git repository (opens new window) and doesn't need to have a database in the background. So no long setup or anything alike. I just run ...

git clone git@github.com:tjventurini/blog.git
yarn install
npm run dev

... and that's it, I'm already all set to write a new article.

This is super handy because I like to play a lot with the code on my local machine and since I am around with heavy tools ⚒ sometimes, it can happen that I mess up some stuff. But thats okey, no client projects involved, so everything good 😉 Anyways, I don't want to setup my blog every time that happens. So in short, this setup makes it way more easy to keep my blog going in the long run.

A new Playground

As you probably guessed already, my blog has (once again) become a playground for me to play around with vue and everything related to it. I love this opportunities, such as creating this blog, because they enable you to revisit the fun and joy that I had when I started coding.

The Perfect Day 2020/04/04 - 404

Today we have the 4th of April which is the day of the developers and the entire internet. What a nice day to go online with my new blog 😁