One of the main reasons is that I want to write in...
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08/26/2019, 2:09 PMOne of the main reasons is that I want to write interactive blog like this: https://meltingasphalt.com/interactive/going-critical/ in future and having a custom setup makes that easier.
With next.js + mdx + react, it is not a lot of effort to build most of mediums features, it took me 3-5 hours to build everything and port the data 🙂
I can do a bunch of custom stuff now like print friendly blogs (that removes title etc and makes it consumable) + interactive stuff etc.
I am very aware of "reinventing the wheel" and that is why I won't build my own analytics/newsletter system (was considering 😄) but blog is my own.
Another reason was the writing medium.. medium is nice and shiny but need me to have internet + interactions are slow vs opening files and writing to them at will!
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08/26/2019, 2:10 PMThese are the major reasons! Medium being pure evil is another one.
Yes I had my custom domain on medium.. because when I started it, that option was available for free.. I think that it is gone now! 🙂
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08/26/2019, 2:11 PM+ seo benefits of a minimal thing are amazing
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08/26/2019, 2:11 PMThis is closed source right now, but let me share something, this perf/SEO benefit happened even without trying... I will start to optimize this further
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08/26/2019, 2:13 PMrefined-vegetable-38843
08/26/2019, 2:13 PMSee the perf benefit
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08/26/2019, 2:13 PMSEO is less but that is without effort.. most fixes are easy.. will do that in some time 🙂
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08/26/2019, 2:15 PMLove the stack.
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08/26/2019, 2:34 PMAnother thing is static hosting, this platform exports a static site => infinite scaling no db management! 🙂
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08/26/2019, 2:35 PM@straight-continent-34777, @many-minister-78351 I hope this addresses some of the answers! Happy to give more specific answers 🙂
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08/26/2019, 2:51 PMpoints noted... 👍
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08/26/2019, 4:18 PMSome of this was beyond me 🙂 but I see why it makes sense. Where are you seeing these stats btw?
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08/26/2019, 9:42 PMSeeing status using this: https://web.dev/measure
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08/27/2019, 2:59 AMIs this just using Chrome's built-in Lighthouse tool ?
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08/27/2019, 9:01 AMCould be, I am not sure, this is from google, and online, I didn't want to install an extension + I don't use chrome, so, this is more convenient for me