I Built a Blog and Forgot to Write

A developer reflects on how over-engineering a personal blog with 11ty, custom scripts, and complex workflows made writing so difficult they stopped entirely. After attempting to build a custom static site generator from scratch, they realized they were optimizing the process instead of achieving the goal of writing. The post explores the distinction between caring about the process versus caring about results, using 3D printing and Linux as analogies. The resolution: switching to Zola with Sveltia CMS to simplify content creation down to a textbox, which got them writing again.