I’m redesigning my personal website, a website that I haven’t changed in quite a bit and will be built on quite a different tech stack from which I’m used to.

Normally I would go my usual go-to-route for building websites, which is Ruby, but lately I’ve been trying to explore other stuff and decided to build the website on React specifically with 

 for the frontend and for the backend since I didn’t want to mess with a framework I decided to use 

 as a CMS. (I’ll probably add a video of how my blog writing works later..)

Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said, "Because it is there." Well, space is there, and we're going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there.
- John F. Kennedy

 JFK famously said “Because it is there”, so when asked by no one 

Speech and space aside I wanted to learn new stuff so I decided to write a blog application with a modern frontend framework that I’ve never tried before and had fun doing it. 

One of the things I’ve been thinking about a lot is you don’t just decide to build stuff for the sake of just building, you have to have a reason to do it and if you already decided to build something, you might as well give it your best building it. 

There are some pillars that I had in mind 

 of my personal website, I love to write so that’s the purpose.

Re-designing my personal website