I wrote some blog software to learn a few new technologies. Kinda fun. Kinda dumb. In this particular case, I was also interested in a kind of minimalist “micro blog” aesthetic. So, we’ll see how that goes.

Blog software is a good use case for learning new things:

• Authentication
• Database
• Post UI
• Post Rendering
• In-browser client and static pages
• Customization vs open source on github
• Configuration
• Run on super constrained cloud servers
• Multi-file source code project management

A much more complicated hello world that forces you to deal with the things the underlying technology isn’t especially good at.