Building the New Blog System

Welcome to the very first post on the new blog! Today, I want to pull back the curtain and talk about why—and how—we built this new system from scratch.

Why a New System?

Our old platform was getting sluggish. It relied on a heavy CMS that required constant security updates, bloated plugins, and felt like overkill for a developer-focused blog. I wanted something that adhered to three core principles:

1. Speed: Static files served over a CDN.
2. Simplicity: Markdown-driven content.
3. Portability: Version-controlled files that can move anywhere.

The Architecture

The directory structure is intentionally dead simple. Each post gets its own folder containing a meta.json file for the routing/SEO data and a post.md file for the actual content:

```text blogs/ └── first-post/ ├── meta.json └── post.md