Rewriting my personal website

When I wrote my old website, it was (I think) the winter holidays of 2023. My knowledge of many things related to the web was quite limited, yet I launched myself into making a Gatsby website inspired by the design of castel.dev (checkout his posts if you like LaTeX!). I was happy with the end result, but it was convoluted and full of code that I didn’t understand. The result of that is that updates were uncommon as everytime I had to remind myself of how the page was setup and how to introduce new content into it. Then I started to stumble into posts that said Gastby was not in a good state and although I don’t claim to understand exactly what happened, it wasn’t a good sign.

Fast forward to now, I just finished my PhD and finally have some more time in my hands so I decided to forget about the old website and start again with the mindset of keeping things as simple as possible. So, having seen Hugo recommended I decided to give it a try and I’m happy that I understand what’s going on better and I’m confident that overtime my skills will improve and I’ll be able to shape the website in any form I need it to be.